Archive for November, 2009

Maemo or Android, N900 versus Hero

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

Until recently, I couldn’t care less about shiny new mobile phones. When mine broke or it was time to change to a new one due to my mobile operator contract ending, I simply went for the “free” phones that were somewhat compatible with Linux. My current phone, a Nokia 5310, can for example serve as a modem in Fedora vie USB connection or Bluetooth thanks to NetworkManager and it perfectly synchronizes with Banshee for my music and podcasts.  It’s just slow as hell, but that’s another story.

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Fedora: Configure the KDE Dashboard to behave like in OSX

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

One thing I absolutely loved on my Mac (OSX 10.4 Tiger at the time), was the way the Dashboard behaved. All other implementations of this feature I have seen on Windows Vista/7 and the default KDE 4.3 configuration sucked in comparison. For those of you unfamiliar with the OSX Dashboard concept, let me explain it to you…

EDIT: since KDE 4.4, options have been moved!

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I’m giving KDE 4 a shot in Fedora 12

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

For many years, I have been an exclusive Gnome user for a couple of reasons:

  • Its interface is pure and usable (aka. the nazi interface)
  • It’s usable directly with the default Fedora installation, no tweaking needed
  • Many of the UI ameliorations for PackageKit, NetworkManager and a ton of other small improvements have hit Gnome recently, thanks to all the major Linux distributions using it as their default desktop.
  • I’m too lazy to try something else

So what’s wrong with Gnome? Well, nothing. I’m perfectly happy and productive with it, but there is also this shiny thing called KDE looking at me with sad little puppy eyes.

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