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6 months with KDE 4 wrap up

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

About 6 months ago, I wrote a blogpost  entitled “I’m giving KDE 4 a shot in Fedora 12“. Fedora 13 is now just around the corner and it’s time for some feedback!

Performance

Overall, I deployed the successive KDE versions showing up during the Fedora 12 life-cycle on 4 computers. What struck me the most compared to Gnome is how diverse the experience was. Gnome + composition feels much the same on each machine, you don’t really notice a big difference in terms of performance if you have an integrated Intel chip or the latest ATI graphic card. (more…)

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Gnome usability tip: show the desktop

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

Since Fedora 12, the “Show Desktop” button that was lurking in the bottom-left corner of Gnome has been removed, as described in the release notes.

As I often use this feature, I wondered how to get it back…Anvil on #fedora-fr pointed me to the System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts configuration window; it’s amazing how many shortcuts I wasn’t aware of exist in there.

This feature is simply available by pressing Ctrl+Alt+D.

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KDE 4.4 in Fedora: new Dasboard configuration

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

As KDE 4.4 has hit the stable update repositories for Fedora a couple of days ago, I updated my parent’s computer. While doing that, I noticed that some options have been moved around, noticeably the ones concerning the Dashboard configuration.

Some months ago, I wrote a post about “Configure the KDE Dashboard to behave like in OSX“; the options to configure this have now been moved to System Settings > Desktop > Workspace. Simply select “Show an Independent Widget Set” in the drop-down box and you are done in KDE 4.4.

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Maemo 5 SDK: add repositories, install QT and deploy our first app in the emulator

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Yesterday I explained how to install the Maemo 5 SDK on Fedora 12 and launch the N900 phone emulator. Today we are going to configure the development environment for QT and deploy a “Hello World” application to the Nokia N900 emulator.

To have a better understanding of the whole platform, including GTK+ programming that we are not going to use, Nokia has a series of good videos:

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Install the Nokia N900 (Maemo 5) SDK on Fedora

Saturday, February 13th, 2010

Hey! I finally received my Nokia N900 phone/toy/thing last week after almost 3 months of waiting; of course it’s full of awesomeness like every device one buys. For those of you who still don’t know what I’m talking about, this phone runs Nokia’s Maemo 5 OS which is essentially a Debian-based Linux distro with an adapted GUI.

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Rencontres Fedora 12 à Paris

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Pour ceux qui ne seraient pas encore au courant, l’association Fedora-FR organise les Rencontres Fedora 12 les 12 et 13 décembre 2009 à la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie de Paris. Au programme il y a de nombreuses conférences et des ateliers liés au monde du libre, on vous y attend nombreux!

Le programme complet est disponible sur le wiki de l’association.

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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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New 64-Bit Flash plugin from Adobe

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

I didn’t notice it before, but Adobe has released a new version of their 64-Bit Flash plugin for Linux. I quote: “The 64-bit Flash Player 10 alpha refresh for Linux was released on July 30, 2009.”

Grab it on the Adobe Labs page and follow my instructions on this blogpost to install it. these instructions are valid for Fedora 10, 11 and basically any 64-Bit Linux OS.

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Banshee + Podcasts + Nokia phone = epic win

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

The last time I tried the Banshee music player it was around Fedora 8/9 and it was very buggy with a lot of crashes. So until now I was using the default Rhythmbox application provided with Fedora 11/Gnome to listen to music and manage my podcasts. To be honest, Rhythmbox was a bit flawed for my use case as it didn’t allow to synchronize my podcasts to my music player (a Nokia 5310 phone); I was using an rsync script for that. Recently, things went downhill…DAAP music sharing worked when it wanted to work and with the latest update, Rhythmbox has bricked all my podcast feeds. Great.

So it was the perfect opportunity to look for another application…it turns out that Banshee is now a really great and mature product (if you don’t mind installing the Mono stack). It supports smart playlists, automatic cover art download, dynamic music library update, videos using the gstreamer back-end, online radios, podcasts AND an automatic synchronization to my Nokia phone! Wooohooo…the only drawback in comparison to Rhythmbox is that it doesn’t act as a DAAP music server.

nokia-banshee

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