Posted
2 days
ago
by
jospoortvliet
Today the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit has started. The day was started by a series of talks by various people from local government and the organisation. After that the Keynotes started. Read on for an impression of the GCDS!
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Posted
3 days
ago
by
jriddell
Free t-shirts were popular
Tonight the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit was opened with a party sponsored by Kubuntu's very own Canonical. Stickers, t-shirts and beer were all given out to contributors and users of KDE, Gnome and any other free
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software environment. Some converts were made from the local Canary island population who were enthused by the spirit of freedom.
Heavy metal and free software do mix
Conversation ranged from the essential cross desktop collaboration issues to the question of whether it ever rains in Las Palmas.
More photos on Flickr.
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Posted
5 days
ago
by
cschumacher
It is that time of the year again. Akademy 2009 is about to begin in only a few days. Held in the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium close to the beautiful beaches of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, this event is shaping up to be a special conference.
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Posted
6 days
ago
by
sebas
Today, three days before the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit starts, the KDE team released KDE 4.3.0 RC1. RC1 is an early candidate for what will become KDE 4.3.0 at the end of this month.
Artwork has now also been merged, and KDE 4.3 will have a new
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Plasma look, sported by the new, light "Air" Plasma theme. Oxygen, the default in earlier versions of KDE 4 is still available as an option through the "Desktop Settings" dialog. Please give this version some good testing so we can iron out last bugs and make 4.3.0 a smooth release. Note that KDE 4.3.0 RC1 is not suitable for end users.
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Posted
8 days
ago
by
einar
During this weekend (and after almost 24 hours of work), the KDE Community Forums have undergone a complete overhaul, resulting in a much improved look and additional features. The first and most user-visible change is the new forum theme. It is
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heavily inspired by "Air", the default Plasma theme in the soon to be released KDE 4.3.
Also, the board is now powered by the phpBB forum software and has gained a number of extra features, including but not limited to:
Improved KDE Brainstorm section, with a new user interface;
A "friends connection" system that enables people to mark other users as
friends and easily interact with them;
Improved user reputation system;
Topic tagging;
The changes are quite numerous and deep, so some bugs may have slipped through our tests. The whole KDE Community is encouraged to visit the forums and report issues.
As a final note, thanks go to the people who made this possible: the KDE Community Forums administrators (Ben Cooksley, Ingo Malchow, Sayak Banerjee), the phpBB developers Chris Smith, Ashley Pinner and Nils Adermann for their continued assistance and support and to the entire phpBB team.
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