January 5, 2012. Today KDE released the second release candidate for its renewed Workspaces, Applications, and Development Platform. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team’s focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality. Please give this release another good round of testing to help us release a rock-solid 4.8 later this month. Highlights of [...]

    Plasma Active is innovative technology for a smarter mobile user experience…the latest member of the Plasma Workspaces family from KDE. The touchscreen interface is more than just an application launcher. Rather than the commonplace grid of applications, an Activity view shows a single project, task or idea, gathering all related documents, people, web sites, media and widgets. By creating multiple Activities, a mobile [...]

  I recently pushed the Maliit team here at Openismusto tidy up the website, to make the current status clearer. Here is a summary: Maliit is the only open-source input system that offers the features real products need, allowing on-screen keyboards for all the world’s languages. It is mature but it needs more work. This is the right project at the right time for various [...]

  The KDE Mobile project is rapidly evolving as you may realize it. The QML technology is getting very popular, more and more mature for creating Ui for mobile devices very easily. Plasma Active keeps rocking, too! 3 years ago at the Desktop Summit, Nokia gave away N810 gadgets to KDE developers, and they could start experimenting with KDE on that device afterwards. N810 is [...]

    Here is some installation instructions for installing Plasma Active courtesy of the KDE Wiki: Installing Plasma Active Live Images These can be used as testing base and to track progress. Balsam Professional open-slx creates regularly updated packages of Balsam Professional for Plasma Active. You can try the Live ISO from a USB stick. Download the Balsam Professional live image, which is based on [...]

  Hello Planet KDE, hello RubyCorner! How To Next Steps Hello Planet KDE, hello RubyCorner! Much time has passed since i wrote my previous blog post about Kubeplayer. Things doesn’t change so much, but nowadays Kubeplayer is quite stable and doesn’t crash anymore. After a lot of difficulties I got Kubeplayer packaged for opensuse. It’s ready to install with only one click in the case [...]

  A Article about the ExoPC and KDE Originally Titled Tablet Fun and Games by John Layt:   I’ve had a little time to play with my ExoPC tablet kindly provided by Intel, and after a brief look at the MeeGo/Intel tablet UX decided that Plasma Active was the way to go (sorry Intel!). The MeeGo UX is far from complete and the lack of [...]

  After your instalment of Contour on Plasma Active goodness yesterday, you didn’t think we would will leave you like that, You know, wanting more. Well heres more !!! More of a Look at the User Interface bits without going into the technical mechanics too much.   We are totally excited about the possibilities of this project. Are you ?

  As part of the Desktop Summit currently taking place in Berlin, the KDE development team has announced that work on the fifth generation of KDE is to commence. The new generation is not scheduled to include any fundamental changes of the type seen in KDE 4.0 and GNOME 3.0. Instead, it will be ‘KDE Frameworks 5.0′, which will likely be the foundation for a future [...]

  I am currently at the DeskTop Summit in Berlin and here is a demo of Contour developed by basysKom. It runs as part of Plasma Active which aims at creating a cross-device user experience for emerging devices such as tablet computers, media centers, smartphones, and more. Contour is still being developed and I can see substantial improvement since I last saw it at the [...]

  Time to pack the suit case again. The destination this time is Berlin and the Event is the Desktop Summit which is bringing together two of the largest communities of free desktop environment developers: Gnome and KDE. The Desktop Summit 2011 is a joint conference organised by the GNOME and KDE communities in Berlin, Germany, 6 – 12 August 2011 at the Humboldt University. Held annually in [...]

  KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma Workspaces, KDE Applications, and the KDE Platform that provides the foundation for KDE software. Version 4.7 of these releases provide many new features and improved stability and performance. Plasma Workspaces Become More Portable Thanks to KWin The Plasma Workspaces gain from extensive work to KDE’s compositing window [...]

  Stefan was on hand from 4tiitoo at Computex to give us a run down of whats happening with the WeTab, which recently got upgraded to version 2.1.2. Lets start with dispelling some rumours, Some sites are claiming that the WeTab 2 was on show but this is not the case, just reference hardware showing that the WeTab interface can run on other OakTrail hardware. [...]

  BasysKom showed off their much talked about new User Interface (UI) Plasma Active at MeeGo Conference San Francisco 2011. The UI has been created in only in a matter of weeks and shows what we expect to see time and time again in how User Interfaces can be developed. Saying that the interface that BasysKom have / are developing are unique as items are [...]

  Contour is a user interface that is based on Qt and KDE Technologies like Plasma, Nepomuk and Qt Mobility and extends Plasma Active. Contour aims to be a context-sensitive user interface that adapts to current context, current activities and behavioral patterns of the user. It is part of Plasma Active, the new user experience for all kind of devices like Tablets, Smartphones, in-car or [...]