Mit der KDE Software Compilation 4.11 haben die KDE-Entwickler ein großes Update für ihre Desktop-Umgebung veröffentlicht. Die KDE-PIM-Suite Kontact wurde mit neuen Funktionen ausgestattet, die Performance verbessert.

Great article about FLOSS in schools.

Around a year ago, a school in the southeast of England, Westcliff High School for Girls Academy (WHSG), began switching its student-facing computers to Linux, with KDE providing the desktop software. The school's Network Manager, Malcolm Moore, contacted us at the time. Now, a year on, he got in touch again to let us know how he and the students find life in a world without Windows.

These improvements look really nice to create sieve scripts. Still need to port several local filters to sieve.

When we want to create a script sieve, we need to know Sieve language, and we don’t use all days this language so it’s easier to create typo and error. So I decided for 4.11 to create an assistant to generate sieve code. By default end user prefers to use GUI to create filters (as sieve script is using for filter mainly). In KMail filter GUI is...

Two very intersting post-mortems about the trouble with git.kde.org from last weekend and what you could learn about backing up Git repositories.

Too Perfect A Mirror - Me, my blog, and my Johnson

How KDE's 1500-repository Git system was nearly destroyed, and how we're preventing it from happening again.

"Screw The Mirrors" - Me, my blog, and my Johnson

Backing up huge numbers of Git repositories isn't as simple as you might think. Here's why.

#KDE SC 4.10 and #Openfire 3.8.0 got released today!

Was already wondering the last days if the HTTP 500 for the Openfire Roadmap site was a sign. Quite surprised to see this release today.

KDE's improvements are really impressive. Nice work on Nepomuk and PIM.

To express myself mildly, I'm not a fan of interfaces for mobile devices. At best, they seem clumsy makeshifts, tolerable only because no...

Still waiting for a Vivaldi, but no news when it will be available. Maybe should buy an Archos 80 G9 so I can start using #PA3.

KDE has released the 3rd stable version of Plasma Active, KDE's device-independent user experience. The Plasma Active user interface is touch-friendly and works well across a range of devices. Its Activities function gives users a natural way to organize and access their applications, files and information. Plasma Active Three noticeably improves the user experience with its enhanced and expanded set of apps, improved performance and a new virtual keyboard.

Aaron Seigo at #Akademy 2012 about the problems to get open devices. Very interesting talk and also the explanation to the delays again for the #Vivaldi.

http://files.kde.org/akademy/2012/videos/A_New_Hope_Open_KDE_Devices_-_Aaron_Seigo.m4v

The design of the KDEdu homepage is really cute. One of the nicest I have seen.

We make free educational software for children and adults, students and teachers. We make software for you....

Also very impressive list of available educational applications.

Already bit old, from the release of PA2, but it presents some ideas of it quite good.

Why would you spend a few hundred dollars on a device that is little more than a smartphone (with a bigger screen, without the phone)? ...

Nice said Aaron:

"...right now, there is too much focus on created devices that serve the owner of the application store and focus on consumption of new devices just for the sake of the newness of the device".

With Unity, Cinnamon, and Gnome 3 getting all the buzz, it's easy to overlook other interesting projects that attempt to rethink the traditional desktop metaphor. Case in point, the KDE Plasma Netbook interface. Despite its moniker, the KDE's alterna...

This is really impressive work. Being able to selectively disable API access for apps. #WAC #Plasma #HTML5

More WACkiness « vizZzion.org :: sebas' blog

After Marco had added initial support for WAC apps to Plasma, I’ve spent a few cycles on taking this to a next level. WAC apps are apps written in HTML5 which are shipped as packaged websites with everything needed included in the package. On top o...

Nice work on the Kontact Suite. Updating tonight

May 4, 2012. Today KDE released updates for its Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform.
These updates are the third in a series of monthly stabilization updates to the 4.8 series. 4.8.3 updates bring many bugfixes and translation updates...

This is a really interesting visualization of KDE's mirror servers I think.

http://download.kde.org/extra/mirrors-map.html
#KDE #mirror #OSM