Budgie Desktop – You Shall Not Pass!
The quest for the ultimate desktop environment continues. In the last few months, we have looked at a range of Qt-based desktops, starting…
KDE and the Menu Crisis
The menu crisis has been slow in coming — so slowly that few people are aware of it. Bit by bit, they have…
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Lumina desktop – Show me the light
The good thing about Qt (as a framework and technology) is that it powers so many interesting products seamlessly, quietly, unassumingly. The bad…
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Krunner: When Minimalism Goes Wrong
In most ways, KDE’s Plasma 5 is an improvement over earlier releases. It is more minimal, and many functions are easier to use…
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Nomad desktop – You’ll never walk alone
If you’ve been using Linux for a while, you have probably heard or even played with various desktop environments; Unity, Gnome, Plasma, Xfce,…
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Liri – Loves me, loves me not … at all
What does the world of Linux need more? Desktop environments? Nope. Ah, well, you’d be surprised, because a fresh new challenger appears! Its…
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LibreOffice: Professional Typography Fully Arrives
Three decades ago, StarDivision, the ancestor of LibreOffice and OpenOffice, was designed as an intermediate desktop publisher. However, many LibreOffice improvements are designed…
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Plasma secrets – Tips and tricks for the KDE desktop
I used the word secret. Well, it’s a bit misplaced. It’s not like Plasma really hides its options from the users so that…
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A Guide for New KDE Users
KDE repeatedly polls as the most popular Linux desktop environment. However, since its numbers are 30-35%, that still means that over two-thirds use…
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Activities Activities Activities
Several weeks ago, my colleague Bruce posted an article on KDE/Plasma Activities, and this got me thinking again about this rather interesting and…
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Okular – An eye for an eye
Documents, documents, documents. Didn’t Steve Ballmer shout that at some expo some time ago? No? Never mind. Let’s talk about Okular instead, then.…
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KDE vs. GNOME Design Philosophies
The days are gone when the Linux desktop was dominated almost entirely by KDE and GNOME. However, the influence of their design philosophy…
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Oh Snap – to boldly package where no one has packaged before
One of the great disadvantages of the Linux desktop is its software distribution mechanism. While the overall concept of central software repos works…
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