Say hello to Plasma 5.15, the newest version of KDE's acclaimed desktop environment.
We know you've been waiting for this - another update on our Usability & Productivity goal!
Thanks to the efforts of our developers, you'll be able to precisely adjust the panel height, and move Dolphin's Terminal pane to any part of the window.
Konsole can now blur the background when its window is transparent, and Gwenview works better in Full Screen mode.
https://pointieststick.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/this-week-in-usability-productivity-part-4/
As you can see, it's been a busy week! And we'll keep on working. #KDEgoals ⚙️
Off and On Again: The story of KDE Plasma's desktop icons; 5.12 improvements
https://blogs.kde.org/2018/01/24/and-again-story-kde-plasmas-desktop-icons-512-improvements
Firefox tracks its user in the addon page:
https://github.com/mozilla/addons-frontend/issues/2785
Will be changed for only the one that opt-in in the telemetry.
I just love the irony ...
TFW you haven't compiled your own complete system in over a year and you make all kinds of mistakes and have to look up how to fix them. https://mastodon.social/media/8DwPRrg7zjeXgezdxqg
Oh man, QTerminal from the #LXQt project is so good.
Why The Ubuntu Phone Failed - http://www.datamation.com/open-source/why-the-ubuntu-phone-failed.html
So YAPC::NA has finished, there's been a ton of neat talks uploaded to the Youtube page, and my favourite, as often is the case, is Damian Conway's Vim talk:
https://youtu.be/oka4wcsrg0c
So two weeks ago I put #opensuse on a 14 year old machine...
With 70G HDD, 512M RAM, and a single core 1600Mhz CPU.
I basically had to create a base system in a VM and copy it over onto the laptop.
I love this #programming tutorials which base on you previous knowledge to gain new skills: for instance this introduction to Perl for Java programmers is very good http://www.kevinboone.net/javaperl.html #perl
Martial artist running Linux