Plasma Active

In a cooperative effort, the Mer team and the basysKom integrators have succeeded in booting a Plasma Active image on NVidia Tegra 2 devices, opening the door bringing Plasma Active to a wider range of hardware. The image is based on Mer, a successor to the MeeGo operating system. read more

Today Nokia announced the start of the open governance model for Qt, known as the Qt Project. The Qt Project allows both companies and individuals to contribute to the development of Qt. KDE supports this move and is excited about the possibilities ... [More] it brings. We have been waiting for opportunities to take a more active role in Qt's future for a long time and open governance will make this easier. read more [Less]

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: New features in KMail: renaming attachments, disabling filters Telepathy gets KWallet support for passwords, integration of global presence into kded-modue Rewritten array classes in Okteta Improved reliability of ... [More] session closing in Konsole Fix of broken root certificates in KDELibs KSSL First version of a QML screen locker using KGreeter Bug fixes in KTorrent, digiKam, BlueDevil, and Calligra Read the rest of the Digest here. read more [Less]

Plasma Active brings a flexible, elegant, activity-driven user experience to a spectrum of devices. This article is part of a series of articles about different perspectives on Plasma Active. This installment looks at the user story, and aims at answering the questions “what does Plasma Active bring me as a user?”, what are the underlying [...]

Plasma Active brings a flexible, elegant, activity-driven user experience to a spectrum of devices. This article is an overview of a series of blog posts I will be publishing over the coming days about different perspectives, or view points to Plasma Active. As Plasma Active is a new user experience and integrated Free software stack [...]

ownCloud 2 has just been released. ownCloud is a web-based storage application similar to Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One with a big difference—your data is under your control. With version 2, the ownCloud team has improved the basic service and ... [More] added valuable features: Access your files on the web or integrate ownCloud with desktop file managers. Share files securely. Access music and personal information directly or connect through applications. read more [Less]

Plasma Active brings a flexible, elegant, activity-driven user experience to a spectrum of devices. This article is part of a series of articles about different perspectives on Plasma Active. In the first installment, we look at a number of ... [More] applications that come with Plasma Active. Kontact Touch, Calligra Active, Bangarang and a collection of Active [...] [Less]

Today marks a major milestone for KDE Plasma Workspaces. Plasma Active One has been released, primarily for tablet computers. It is the latest expression of the Plasma concept, following Plasma Desktop and Plasma Netbook. In the KDE tradition ... [More] , Plasma Active One is designed for the best User Experience—for people on the move and engaged in many activities. read more [Less]

In this week's KDE Commit-Digest: Group By Time feature available in Digikam Calligra gets Web Report Element and incremental backup in Krita Introduction of the KSecret tool Optimizations in KDE-Base Bugfixes in in password saving and HTTP ... [More] authentication caching in KDE-Libs, KDE-PIM, Network Management, Kile and others. Read the rest of the Digest here. read more [Less]

The results of the Desktop Summit 2011 survey have been published at the Summit website. The overall feedback was positive, and there were suggestions for improving future Desktop Summits. Desktop Summit 2011 Berlin promoted collaboration between ... [More] open desktop projects with attendance dominated by the GNOME and KDE communities. There were several requests to make a stronger appeal for people from other desktop projects to attend. [Less]