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Converging minds

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Sometimes when times are ready some ideas really want to come up and be used

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Sent from mart on 22/06/2010 at 14:23:21 — comments: 4Digg it



Netbook and performance

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Probably I should had written this little notice uhm, a quite while :), anyways, it's quite technical but here there are a little hint on how to make the Netbook shell a garzillion times faster, if you're hit by an unfortunate series of circumstances that makes it run sloooowly :)

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Sent from mart on 06/06/2010 at 12:27:53 — comments: 6Digg it



Plasma Netbook 4.5

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So, it was pretty a long time since the last time I blogged about the KDE Plasma Netbook project... what's going on on that? you wanna videos?, you'll get videos :)

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Sent from mart on 18/05/2010 at 11:57:33 — comments: 10Digg it



Script your netbook

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This post is of the boring-with code type, but if you are a distribution packager read till the end, it's important :)

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Sent from mart on 30/04/2010 at 15:02:42 — comments: 0Digg it



KDE on MeeGo

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This entry will show off a new cute thing, while also being a pretty shameless call for help :)

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Sent from mart on 27/04/2010 at 14:11:41 — comments: 4Digg it



Get the bleeding

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Today, as Aaron and Frederik said, we just launched a really cool thing: periodically updated images of a reference distribution for KDE Plasma Netbook. It's done with the openSUSE build service and is based on opensuse; however it's quite customized with our artwork and settings, so the general feeling of the distribution is exactly what the name suggests: a reference.

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Sent from mart on 15/03/2010 at 15:58:33 — comments: 5Digg it



Drag, drop, search and launch

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KDE SC 4.4 is just out of the door (by the way, what an achievement, woha :D) and as our tradition we are already cramming features on trunk, that will be KDE SC 4.5.

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Sent from mart on 09/02/2010 at 10:51:28 — comments: 4Digg it



Netbook, Pages and what they're for

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As presented on this blog a bit ago the central and more important view for Plasma Netbook Shell is this so called "Newspaper" activity: applets are positioned in an arbitrary number of columns (default two), one on top of the other, scrolling when there isn't enough space, giving you actually an "almost infinite" vertical real estate

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Sent from mart on 02/01/2010 at 5:31:43 — comments: 9Digg it



Another Plasma netbook screencast

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Another screencast of yours truly: this shows the Plasma netbook shell running on a bog standard Asus EeePc 1005Ha.

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Sent from mart on 20/11/2009 at 13:40:24 — comments: 8Digg it



Search and Launch improvements

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I've already talked about the search and launch activity for the netbook shell, so this video rather than explaining again what this is it just gives a brief description of what is changed on it and where the work is heading:

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Sent from mart on 23/10/2009 at 9:56:25 — comments: 3Digg it