8 KDE Plasma Irritations
KDE’s Plasma has been my chief desktop for over a decade. My work-flow depends on Activities, and I appreciate how much I can…
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Plasma widgets – Beltway Bandit Unlimited
The concept of addons is an interesting one. At some point over the past decade or two, companies developing (successful) software realized that…
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IU not UI – Want a great desktop? Use the brain.
Our friend William Shakespeare once wrote: To be or not to be, we must rejoice, for our GUI is so well-designed, the user…
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Plasma – The road to perfection is paved with bugs
Call it bias, call it taste, I like the Plasma desktop environment. After many years, I feel KDE is finally regaining some of…
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Plasma 5.12 – Long Term Sweetness?
Roughly a year ago, I wrote my fairly lengthy State of Plasma article, which examined the KDE’s fifth major desktop environment incarnation in…
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Best KDE/Plasma distro of 2017
Plasma me, Plasma you, a-ha, there was nothing we could do. But wait! Yes we can. Let us glimpse back upon Year 2017,…
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Plasma 5.11 – Keep the momentum going
Just a few short days ago, the KDE team released Plasma 5.11, the latest edition of this desktop environment, plied with a range…
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Replacing Audacity with KWave
KWave has been developed since 1998, yet few have heard of it. I only recently heard of it myself from writer and podcaster…
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It’s the Qt showdown
Qt desktops are many and varied. So one may ask, all right, if you have to choose one, which one? Well, the answer…
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OpenSUSE fonts – The sleeping beauty guide
As a whole, the Linux desktop isn’t the most polished family of products in the universe. Due to the chaotic nature of software…
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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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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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