[News] KDE Gets More 3-D Acceleration, Amarok Gains Magnatune.com Integration
Roy Schestowitz
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2D in KDE
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| Qt, and therefore KDE, deals with 3 predominant ways of rendering graphics. I
| don't feel like bothering with transitions today, so find your own way from
| beards and dwarfs to Qt/KDE graphics. Those three ways are:
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| * On the CPU with no help from the GPU using the raster engine
| * Using X11/Xrender with the X11 engine
| * Using OpenGL with the OpenGL engine
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http://zrusin.blogspot.com/2009/08/2d-in-kde.html
Seven Great Tips To Make KDE 4.3 More Friendly
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| This time I decided to reveal some of my favorite KDE tricks.
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http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=782
Message Indicator in KDE
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| Recently Aurelien Gateau of the Canonical Desktop Experience team implemented
| the Message Indicator for KDE and Konversation. Now if you get messages when
| you're away from your computer or not looking at IRC it'll put them into the
| message indicator when you can happily not get distracted by them (unlike
| popup notifications) but can easily find them when you want to.
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http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4043
Some KDE 4 tips you should know
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| KDE 4 is definitively my daily desktop environment, although it’s not yet
| mature like the 3.5.x branch i consider it enough stable and usable, but
| sometime the default settings and the few time available, don’t help us to
| appreciate it, so let’s resume some little tip for beginners that feel lost
| with everything new and don’t want waste their time.
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http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/08/13/some-kde-4-tips-you-should-know/
Magnatune.com and Amarok: Integration of favorite and recommendation features
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| On Magnatune.com, we have recently added a number of features to make the
| memberships more attractive. One of these features (which has actually been
| around for a while now) is a personal list of favorite albums for each
| member. On each album page, there is a small button that adds the album to
| the list of favorites
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Recent:
KDE release adds 2,000 features
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| The KDE Community released the 4.3 version of its popular Linux/UNIX desktop
| environment, representing more than 63,000 code changes by 700 contributors,
| 10,000 bug-fixes, and 2,000 new features. KDE 4.3 adds numerous improvements
| to the Plasma Desktop Shell and Application Development Framework, among many
| other enhancements.
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http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS4333848905.html
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