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A system tray even more Plasma

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In KDE 4.3 there is the beginning of the support of the new systemtray protcol with some applications that supports it already, and as said, we hope to get a good percentage of our apps supporting it for 4.4.

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Sent from mart on 30/06/2009 at 22:08:10 — comments: 11Digg it



AIR: it's official

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AIR

This is not a shocking news since the Air Plasma theme was developed all in the open, so there are literally months that screenshots of it are around the interwebs, but since today it's official: the Air theme is the default plasma theme :)

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Sent from mart on 19/06/2009 at 21:29:45 — comments: 20Digg it



Spread your knowledge

BlaBla

As Frank said yesterday in KDE 4.3 there will be the beginning to the support of the OpenSocial API, this is still fairly limited and at an experimental stage, but we did roll out something, to test the libraries and get people use it, bot users and programmers.

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Sent from mart on 17/06/2009 at 13:58:02 — comments: 0Digg it



Plasmanetbook breaths

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With the usual disclaimer that is a very early barely working prototype that will be probably massively different from anything final, it's nice to show the screenshot of the other day in action.

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Sent from mart on 31/05/2009 at 18:36:08 — comments: 13Digg it



Put a net in your book

BlaBla

Ok MoRpHeUz, i'll show it :p, so here we go:

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Sent from mart on 28/05/2009 at 21:07:43 — comments: 15Digg it



Systray finally in action

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As Aaron noted, the client library for the new system tray specification has finally landed in kdelibs, as "experimental" (i.e. it will probably still see some refactoring for 4.4, assuring is as good as possible)

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Sent from mart on 06/05/2009 at 14:12:07 — comments: 6Digg it



Dissecting a tray

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This is another pretty long post on the new system tray. Since the last post things have cleared up a bit (and i hope the api it's a liiiittle bit more stable too) so i think times are ready for a slightly more technical description of all the machinery there is in place.

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Sent from mart on 27/04/2009 at 14:50:53 — comments: 2Digg it



Make some space

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Sometimes little details gives a way greater feeling of power and customizability, without actually adding much and more importnant without adding tons of new buttons and configuration options.

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Sent from mart on 24/04/2009 at 22:58:42 — comments: 20Digg it



Dashboards, activities and desktops

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That's a tiny feature that apparently makes several people happy:
Now the plasma dashboard is a way to quick access your desktop widgets whente desktop is covered by windows, and i really like this feature as it works.

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Sent from mart on 09/04/2009 at 22:52:46 — comments: 11Digg it



Gently touch your web zones

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Also not groudbreaking (and nearly one-liners) features are pretty to see and can be foundation for more neat things to come.

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Sent from mart on 30/03/2009 at 15:23:34 — comments: 3Digg it