[How-To] Changing The New Kickoff Menu to Traditional Menu

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

The release KDE4 brought in the new kickoff menu, the slab-style menu which was first introduced in openSUSE 10.2. The premise is simple - instead of unfolding menu after menu, the submenu opens within the menu itself. What makes the Kickoff a killer is the inclusion of search. While I love ...

[How-To] Installing Plasmoids, SuperKaramba Widgets and Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets in KDE 4.1

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Plasmoids are the little widgets that have made an appearance with KDE4. Plasmoids can basically do anything - from displaying your desktop and associated wallpaper to showing your laptop's battery level,or even display the latest comics or post a tweet to twitter. While KDE 4 comes with some plasmoids, you ...

KDE 4.1 Released, Gets Rave Reviews

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

It's no secret that KDE4.0 didn't get good reviews. Fact is it was heavily criticized, mainly for instability problems. So much so that it was argued that KDE 4.0 shouldn't have been pushed out as a .0 release. But that was past, and today KDE 4.1 was released. Judging from ...

KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 Preview

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

KDE 4.1 Alpha 1 was just released, and it looks very promising indeed! Here's what bastion of PolishLinux had to say: Desktop First thing worth noticing is the new looks of KRunner. Unfortunately, on the current stage, it behaves in an unpredictable manner. In some cases after typing one letter I had ...

Find out how much space each file is occupying

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

Consider this situation. You want to know much space is available on your hard disk. No big deal, du can tell you the stats. For this open the terminal and type du -h. You will get the required details as below sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads 35M     /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs 177M    /home/sathya/Downloads sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu\ ...

Nokia To Acquire Trolltech

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Nokia, one of the leading cell-phone manufacturers will acquire Trolltech as announced by Nokia today. Trolltech which designed the Qt toolkit, on which KDE is based upon. As per the Press release, Espoo, Finland and Oslo, Norway - Nokia and Trolltech ASA today announced that they have entered into an agreement that ...