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Weekly Eyecandy [Week 1 June 2010]


GTK Themes Equinox Ubuntu Theme 1.20 Download

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How To Replace The KDE Network Manager With The GNOME Network Manager In Ubuntu


How To Replace The KDE Network Manager With The GNOME Network Manager In Ubuntu

The KDE network manager (KNEtworkManager) has just too many problems. So, I prefer using the GNOME Network Manager (NetworkManager) even with KDE SC. Here is what you need to do to use the GNOME Network Manager insted of the one that comes with KDE SC.

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By Ricky

Spokify – A KDE Client For Spotify Is Finally Coming [Video]


Spokify – A KDE Client For Spotify Is Finally Coming [Video]

So far there has been no proper Spotify client (atleast to my knowledge). Sometime back we had shown you how you can install the Spotify client for Windows in Ubuntu using Wine. Very soon, you may not need to use Spotify in Linux that way. A new KDE client for Spotify, called Spokify, is being…

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By Ricky

Blur Effect Coming In KWin In KDE SC 4.5 [video]


After the release of KDE SC 4.4 was released about a month back, the KDE team has started work on KDE SC 4.5. A new blur effect for KWin which will come in KDE SC 4.5 has been revelaed. Here is a video showing the new KWin Blur Effect:

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By Ricky
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digiKam 1.2.0 Released


The digiKam team has just released a new version of digiKam, digiKam 1.2.0. digiKam is an excellent image editor and organizor for KDE SC with a lot of features. digiKam 1.2.0 comes with a lot of bugfixes and some new features. The new features includes:

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By Ricky

How to enable a Ayatana-type notification in KDE SC 4.4 [Ubuntu]


How to enable a Ayatana-type notification in KDE SC 4.4 [Ubuntu]

In KDE SC 4.3 [Ubuntu], we had a wonderful notofication system avaulable called the Ayatana notification. For some reason unknown to me, it has been removed from KDE SC 4.4. Having used Ayatana, I cannot stand the default notification system that KDE SC 4.4 provides and had to change it. So, here is a how-to…

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By Ricky

Amarok 2.3 out – Comes with equalizer


The Amarok team has announced the release of Amarok 2.3 codenamed “Clear Light”. The new release has a much requested feature – an Equalizer. The equalizer however uses kdelibs 4.4 , so you will have to be running KDE 4.4 for it to work. As Amarok 2 is largely stable by now, for Amarok 2.3,…

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By Ricky

How to fix problem of Google Chrome hanging in KDE (but working in GNOME)


In some new builds of Google Chrome a bug has been reported which makes it the browser hang when it is used in KDE but it works fine in GNOME. In Google Chrome, the bugs results in the tab hanging after a page has been loaded. After sometime a pop-up usually comes saying some thing…

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By Ricky

How To install Choqok 1.0 Beta 1 in (K)Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala


How To install Choqok 1.0 Beta 1 in (K)Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Choqok is a micro-blogging client for KDE and in my opinion, one of the best at that. Recently, the Choqok team released the first beta towards Choqok 1.0. It has various improvements like: Actions to subscribe/unsubscribe and block a user, added to User menu. Support to attach a file (like image) to a dent in…

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By Ricky

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