Create a truly unique and modern theme for the Ubuntu Desktop. This a redux of the original version of Hanso utilizing several of the new murrine option if the current engine including new arrowstyle, border_shades, border_colors, comboboxstyle, gradient_colors, prelight_shade, shadow_shades, spinbuttonstyle, textstyle, trough_shades, reliefstyle, and stepperstyle.
Read more »Hanso - A new elegant rich brown hybrid theme retaining usability (Proposed lucid theme)
K3b goes beta!
After two months of work I’m pleased to announce the first beta release of K3b. It is the last testing version before stable 2.0. If everything goes fine, the stable version will be ready in the end of February.
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'Homosapien' - Proposed Metacity for Lucid
Although the author doesn't offer up any more information, it looks an exciting and unique submission in itself.
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Getting Things Gnome (GTG) - An organizer for the GNOME desktop environment
GTG focuses on usability and ease of use. Its main objective is to provide a simple, powerful and flexible organization tool to the GNOME desktop environment.
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DoThisNow - Simple Desktop Automation
DoThisNow lets you do things. In more ways than you could before.
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The Best Google Chrome Extensions
Google Chrome finally has an answer to Firefox's add-ons; we recommend eleven of our favorite Google Chrome extensions.
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Firefox for Mobile Has Been Officially Released
The mobile version of Firefox web browser has been finally released. But don't get too excited because as of the moment, it is only available for Nokia's Maemo5 platform.
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Linux, the chicken and the egg
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The answer has never been fully resolved to everyone's satisfaction. Linux has a bit of a chicken and egg quandary too. To compile a Linux distribution you need to start from Linux. However I am approaching this question from another angle.
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KDE SC 4.4 RC3 Released
With the number of fixes still going into the 4.4 branch after RC2 last week, the release managers have decided to pop another release candidate in between. Last night, Dirk tagged KDE Software Compilation 4.4 RC3, and we're releasing it today already.
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Blogilo: KDE’s blogging client
Social media has taken over the Web in a very big way. It has even been argued that social media is the new Web or “new media”. Two of those popular social media sites are Blogger and Wordpress. There are many advantages to using client software on a local computer, such as the ability to work offline.
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Syntensity goes browser-based
Syntensity, the open source metaverse where you can create and share 3d games scripted with V8 JavaScript, is working on a web-plugin that will let you play the game in-browser, just like Quake live! This will allow for better web integration such HTML game interfaces and in-browser scripting through services like Mozilla's Bespin
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Ultimate-Debian-LiveCD-i686 Final
The Ultimate Debian LiveCD! A Megagog plethora of Browsers, utilities, & rescue apps!
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Its here! openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 1
Its here! The first openSUSE 11.3 Milestone. This is the first step toward the next openSUSE release. The most important goal of this first milestone is to test the build interactions between newly added features in openSUSE Factory, also known as “get the snapshot to build”. It is in no way feature complete or ready for daily usage.
Read more »The KDE 4.3 System Settings - Part 1
In our original article two years ago, we did a complete overview of the entire KDE 3.5 Control Center, a task that was not small by any stretch of the imagination. This time detailing the new System Settings control panel for KDE4.
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5 Linux Speed Tips
There are many ways to do the same tasks in Linux, which is a lovely thing because it means we can tailor our workflows to suit our own personal needs. Here are five of Carla Schroder's favorite speed and efficiency tips.
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