Today with a new update, Shutter has finally replace its blue icon, which looked out of place among the other monochrome icons in Lucid, with a monochrome one. So, now it blends in well with the overall theme.

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After the one week delay, KDE Software Compilation 4.5 has been finally released. This is a release meant for stability not new features. About 16,000 bugs have been fixed in this release. It is not to say there are no new features. KDE SC 4.5 has an absolutely gorgeous looking blur effect and some very…

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Ubuntu is getting a new sound theme – the catch is it will not make it in time Maverick. According to a blog post from the Canonical Design team, they are looking for a new sound theme and are asking the community to submit. The submission is till October 28th. So that rules out any…

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BlueDevil may eventually make way for KBluetooth as the default bluetooth manager in KDE.

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Well, it has been quite a long time coming but, finally, there is a dictionary plugin for KRunner now. Jason Donenfeld posted in his blog today that he has completed the dictionary plugin for KRunner.

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At GUADEC, Dave Neary presented the results of the GNOME Census. The results reveal some very interesting findings. Around 70% of the developers identify themselves as volunteer and 70% of the commits made in the GNOME releases are made by paid developers. Now, here is the part that has started out something like a war…

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Today I saw a mockup of GNOME Shell and cannot believe at how much it looks like Unity, the UI which Canonical is developing for Ubuntu Netbook Edition. Have a look :

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Today I was going through Dell’s Ubuntu offerings and I saw something funny. Dell recommended that I use Internet Explorer 8. So what? Well lets see – I was on an Ubuntu system and, as I have said, I was in their Ubuntu section. Here is a picture: (Click for full size)

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It seems like people just cannot have enough of Amarok 1.4. Earlier we have already reviewed Clementine, a port of Amarok 1.4. Now we have two more Amarok 1.4 clones – Gereqi and Pana. Both of them are relatively small projects and if you still want Amarok 1.4 you might want to check them out.

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