Kget Goodness

Dear Google - KISS

 Posted on May 24, 2021  |  2 minutes  |  236 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

Why is it so hard to have a proper download manager in today’s day ? We had it in the previous decade. Or do tech giants self-proclaim that the world lives only in their cloud. At one point, there used to be great download managers for all major web browsers, either in-built, or external. Then came the latest trend with Chrome and Firefox, where they make it difficult to have an external download manager work proper. [Read More]
KDE  Kget  Download Managers  Chrome  Chromium  Firefox 

Wayland KDE X11

Impressions from KDE, Wayland and Plasma 5.21.1

 Posted on February 26, 2021  (Last modified on March 1, 2021)  |  6 minutes  |  1093 words  |  Ritesh Raj Sarraf

KDE Impressions These days, I often hear a lot about Wayland. And how much of effort is being put into it; not just by the Embedded world but also the usual Desktop systems, namely KDE and GNOME. In recent past, I switched back to KDE and have been (very) happy about the switch. Even though the KDE 4 (and initial KDE 5) debacle had burnt many, coming back to a usable KDE desktop is always a delight. [Read More]
Linux  Containers  systemd  KDE  Plasma  Plasma 5.21  Wayland  X11  OBS  Open Build Service 

Linux Desktop Usage 2019

 Posted on March 15, 2019  |  6 minutes  |  1167 words  |  

If I look back now, it must be more than 20 years since I got fascinated with GNU/Linux ecosystem and started using it. Back then, it was more curiosity of a young teenager and the excitement to learn something. There’s one thing that I have always admired/respected about Free Software’s values, is: Access for everyone to learn. This is something I never forget and still try to do my bit. [Read More]
Desktop  KDE  GNOME  Linux  Integration 

Freedom, Privacy and Our Choices

 Posted on December 4, 2015  |  4 minutes  |  775 words  |  

When I bought my [Lenovo Yoga 2 13](http://www.researchut.com/blog/lenovo- yoga-2-13-debian), I had great plans. I wanted a device, that I could use both, as a laptop, and also as a tablet. The path hasn’t been easy. But then, no path in Free Software against Freedom and Privacy has been easy. The choice is left to us, the users. I had been a long time KDE User. With KDE’s decision to have different UIs for different form factors (plasma active, plasma netbook, plasma desktop), it was now time to try something different. [Read More]
KDE  gnome  Yoga 2 13  Yoga  Lenovo  Touch  UI  Design  Freedom  Privacy 

Kscope 1.6

 Posted on April 7, 2012  (Last modified on November 12, 2014)  |  2 minutes  |  274 words  |  

In the 3.x days of KDE, there were some wonderful applications. One of them I still admire, is kscope. Recently, I stumbled upon this blog entry and thought of sharing my living with kscope. The move from KDE 3 to KDE 4 was a big one. During that move, the kscope author decided to port kscope to a Qt only application. That is what we have as the latest kscope, 1. [Read More]
KDE  kscope 

Microsoft, Nokia and Qt

 Posted on March 7, 2011  (Last modified on January 31, 2013)  |  1 minutes  |  183 words  |  

Nokia has [announced](http://blog.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/07/nokia-and-digia- working-together/) that it is selling off its Qt business. This needed to happen given the change in the company’s strategy. Microsoft is a software vendor providing Mobile OS, with Nokia being one of its consumers. For Nokia, to have a tier 1 alliance with Microsoft, it would have been important for the company to show positive gesture. With this move, Microsoft and Nokia will strengthen their partnership. This move will focus on tighter integration in between the 2 company’s portfolios. [Read More]
Nokia  Microsoft  Qt  KDE 

Icedove

 Posted on November 7, 2010  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  5 minutes  |  919 words  |  

My recent experience with Mozilla ThuderBird, IceDove. With KDE 4.x, the KDE team took a radical step of ripping apart most of the stuff and rethinking many of the designs. Quite a bold move. Many people appreciated KDE’s efforts to start afresh while others moved away from KDE. For some reasons, I decided to stick to KDE. Maybe it was because of the awesome flexibility KDE provided provides to customize the DE to one’s personal taste. [Read More]
KDE  kmail  knode  Icedove  Akregator 

Evolution Newsgroup UI

 Posted on May 29, 2009  (Last modified on January 22, 2011)  |  2 minutes  |  256 words  |  

I’ve been using KDE for a while now, probably 9yrs. I’ve also been an early adopter of KDE 4.x. While KDE 4 is still far way behind in proving its worth of the radical core changes it made (take for example: Nepomuk, Strigi, Phonon, Decibel - I still wonder when they are going to be ready for the user), I still find KDE apps far far ahead of GNOME. Probably, many would disagree. [Read More]
KDE  knode  evolution  gnome