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Selective list of Plasma changes for KDE 4.3

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| Aaron Seigo has published a list of changes and new features to Plasma, the 
| desktop shell for KDE4, that will be included in KDE4.3. This list is quite 
| long, so I will only try to show the most important changes.  
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/selective-list-of-plasma-changes-for-kde-43/


Recent:

KDE 4.3 Beta 1 - looking pretty

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| Looking back for a moment, there's no question that KDE 4 has had a very
| rough ride. Certainly, version 4.0 was a disappointment for many users,
| lacking features and functionality to make the move from 3.5 worthwhile.
| Version 4.1 started to repair the damage, and 4.2 padded it out to be good
| all-round desktop (don't miss our top KDE 4.2 tips!). Will 4.3 be the first
| 4.x release to win over armies of Gnome fans?
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http://www.tuxradar.com/content/kde-43-beta-1-looking-pretty


KDE 4.3 Beta 1 Out For Testing

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| The KDE Community today announced the immediate availability of KDE 4.3 Beta
| 1, the first preview of the 3rd iteration over the KDE 4 desktop,
| applications and development platform.
| KDE 4.3 focuses on polishing and completing the user experience by providing
| a modern and beautiful Free working environment. KDE's award-winning tools
| and applications are available in more than 50 languages. The KDE team is now
| in bugfixing mode in order to provide a smooth KDE 4.3.0 to end users in late
| July.
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http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3-beta1.php


KDE 4.3: First Widget for Social Desktop

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| A widget has been included in KDE 4.3 as the first implementation of the
| „Social Desktop“ which allows the user to view other KDE users in his or her
| city or region.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/online/news/kde_4_3_first_widget_for_social_desktop


KDE 4.3 - early preview

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| Like it or not, KDE 4.3 will be a great leap forward in this environment’s
| development. I won’t hesitate to say, it will be a bigger one than KDE 4.1 to
| 4.2. Interestingly enough, my compilation of development snapshot worked
| stable and jerk-free - no major issues there.
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/kde-43-early-preview/


wallpapers and other bobbles for 4.3

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| We have a number of new Plasma components lining up to make it into 4.3. Not
| least among them is a geolocation DataEngine, making it absolutely trivial
| for anything Plasma to get at the information either via a GPS device or by
| looking up the location of your network address if you are online. Along with
| a handful of new widgets, some I've already written about recently, we also
| have no less than six new wallpaper plugins that may make it into 4.3!
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2009/04/wallpapers-and-other-bobbles-for-43.html


Air and KDE 4.3.

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| Air was the wallpaper we introduced in KDE 4.2, but that is just the
| beginning of something larger. Air is supposed to be different than what
| Oxygen is, something that tries to appeal to a user base looking for a
| more "sexy" experience than Oxygen (yeah I know you are out there :) ), but
| to still have the capability of merging nicely with what we have now.
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http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2009/02/air-and-kde-43.html


Five Improvements For KDE 4.3

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| The new year has already brought us a nice treat in KDE 4.2. I found it to be
| a very solid desktop, yet with some issues that keep it from 100% perfection.
| I’m happy to say that 4.2 occupies all of the computers that I use, yet there
| are still some serious problems that remain. Last year I did an article
| similar to this one, detailing the things I feel would make the KDE desktop
| rise to a higher level of perfection, and now that KDE 4.2 is released, it’s
| time to do it again.
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http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=180


Lancelot 1.7: I just get carried away…

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| It is the time to announce the new version of Lancelot that will be shipping
| with KDE 4.3.
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http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2009/05/22/lancelot-17-whats-new/


Lancelot and Raptor menu - the other way.

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| Lancelot and Raptor are alternative menus intended for KDE 4. We are,
| however, at the frosty point, and we should ask ourselves the most important
| question here - which one to choose, and are they sufficiently mature and
| functional at all to compete with the default menu? Let’s look at them
| closely then to know the answer.
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http://polishlinux.org/kde/lancelot-and-raptor-menu-the-other-way/


You’ve got branched!

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| While this is great news for 4.2, it is even better for 4.3. This means that
| the SVN trunk is now exiting the /feature freeze/ state. This is a great
| thing for developers because the development becomes fun again (squashing
| bugs can not be labeled as fun), great for PlanetKDE readers since you’ll get
| real news from now on, and great for feature junkies for obvious reasons.
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http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2009/01/05/you-got-branched/


Lancelot, and the Knights of the Plasma Widget

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| As someone who is a stickler for usability and efficiency, this sort of
| project is really brilliant. The fact that there is competition between
| different menu systems is part of what gives open-source operating systems an
| edge over the commercial ones.
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http://bushweed.blogspot.com/2008/12/lancelot-and-knights-of-plasma-widget.html


Lancelot reaches Holy Grail of KDE menu

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| KDE 4 is barely eight months old, and already it has three options for a main
| menu. Until now, users have either used the default Kickoff, which makes for
| awkward navigation of the menu tree, or reverted to the familiar but unwieldy
| classic menu. Now, with the first full release of Lancelot, users have
| another option that overcomes the shortcomings of both other alternatives and
| gives KDE 4 a thoroughly modern menu.
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| [...]
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| These points aside, Lancelot is in many ways what Kickoff should have been.
| It makes Kickoff structures work without inhibiting navigation or adding
| unnecessary complexity. I would not be greatly surprised if, a few releases
| down the road, Lancelot becomes the default menu in the KDE 4 series.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/147167


Lancelot revealed

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| Well, not exactly, but now you can get the general idea, and you can see what
| it will look like
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| This is an actual screenshot, not a mock up...
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http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/blog/2007/10/27/lancelot-revealed/


Related:

The KDE Raptor Menu - A quick overview

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| Being a KDE lover myself, I'm always intrigued by some of the different
| features and software that come out for KDE.  The latest is the Raptor menu.
| It's certainly an interesting menu system and one that I think deserves
| closer attention.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=411


Raptor - Improved menu system for KDE 4

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| Raptor aims to deliver a new kind of launch menu system for KDE. It is
| designed with usability and beauty in mind.
| Raptor-Menu does not try to be the final answer to the menu question, instead
| aspires to be the best answer we can give, merging many ideas form modern
| desktop launch menus.
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http://www.raptor-menu.org/


Raptor! join the fun.

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| What is raptor? Raptor is a an amazing project i have been working in the
| last few days. It trays to be a fresh new way of finding your desktop
| applications, and interacting with its users.  
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http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2007/10/raptor-join-fun.html
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