Latte Dock – An anchor for your Plasma stuff?
You must test this new dock for KDE/Plasma, my friends told me the other day. I’m kidding. I do not have any friends.…
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Adjusting Application Launchers to the Task with KDE Plasma
The classical desktop, consisting of a menu, panel, and a workspace, has been obsolete for years. What was adequate in the days of…
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Discover Discover
Nailing the perfect software design is tricky. It is all too easy to confuse simplicity of aesthetics with simplicity of functionality. A piece…
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22 things Amarok does: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the hope
Ask not what you can do for Amarok. Ask what Amarok can do for you! Many years ago, just the mention of this…
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How Plasma Activities Save the Desktop
Plasma Activities — virtual desktops — remind me of word processor styles. Both improve work-flow, yet few ever use them. In fact, often…
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LXQt usability review – We got a long way to go
And a short time to get there, I’m east bound, just watch LXQt run. Yes. In a fashion similar to my rather exhaustive…
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The State of Plasma
Over the years, my experience with KDE can best be described as a rollercoaster – on ice, with rocket thrusters. KDE3.5 was a…
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Make Fedora fonts better
Citizens of the Internet, welcome. Fonts in Linux are a rather neglected topic; there are things with a higher delight factor we could talk…
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GoboLinux: Questioning the Linux File Hierarchy
Sometimes, distinguishing one of the several hundred available Linux distributions from another seems impossible. That, however, is not the problem with GoboLinux. Admittedly,…
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Fedora upgrade – Does this work?
The idea of upgrading your operating system from one version to another is an interesting one. It implies you will be changing your…
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SoftMaker Office 2016 – Your alternative to LibreOffice?
Depending on how you look at it, the world of office suites for Linux is either very rich or very poor. As the rather…
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Signal Desktop Beta: Convenience Added to Security
Signal Private Messenger has been simplifying the encryption of voice and text messages for several years now. Not only is it a drop-in…
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