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There were several plasmoids that allowed you to replicate Windows 7 taskbar functionality in KDE, and they've been available for years. I used this one back in 2009.

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/STasks?content=99739

I think the current version is here.

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/?content=148813

Take a look at Recoll, full text search tool based on the Xapian backend. Non-slow, full text, proximity clauses and all

You're looking for Yakuake. It's just like Quake: hit the tilde and a command console drops down from the top.

Merry Christmas

We don' have software patents over here, but It's a subject that I fallow regularly here on Slashdot. I found this analogy about English prose one of the bests I saw to inform non computer literates about this subject.
Take my example. I'm currently writing an FTP client for learning and contribute purposes. One of the things about FTP is that each server vendor as some kind of slightly different application. So if I want to make a client that has some kind of success I have to test many of the servers(closed sourced and open) out there, so my program can parse every line. I've mostly wrote this software from scratch fallowing the RFC specifications.
At some point I've downloaded the source code of some popular open-source FTP clients(FileZilla, KFtpGrabber), to analize the code and look for different approaches. It was surprising to see that while both this programs and mine are very complex applications, and that my work is completely original, we have very common programming techniques(and code) on several identical subjects(even the variables have the same name sometimes).
What I've realize is that for some problems there are out there have just about one or two best solutions. No one can argue that my creativity is not original. I've only looked at the code of these programs after the engine was almost written, but hypothetically if at any point some FTP client program or idea was patented my program wold violate that for sure(although it would not violate copyright since it's not the same code).

Patenting code is like patenting solutions to problems and it could be justified if there were many different solutions out there but the reality is that many problems have only one or two correct approach.

It was in KDE 3 - KDE's had it since 2006 - ALT + Space launches Katapult

and ffmpeg2theora offers an easy way to create content.

Only for certain definitions of easy. Let me know when you have a point and click version that my non technical friends can use.

OK

the DOCK, as in look at Ksmoothdock, and kxdock:

http://ksmoothdock.sourceforge.net/ksmoothdock-manual.html

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=6585

http://www.vivaolinux.com.br/screenshot/KDE-OpenSUSE-10.3-com-kxdock-geekzen

http://www.xiaprojects.com/index.php?find=kxdocker

http://xqde.xiaprojects.com/

But, even in 1992, there was "Killer Windows Utilities", and in it was a floating, apps-customizable dock:

I still have my old book, but i cannot find it on the internets.

As MUCH as i applaud Apple for its design successes, i cannot back Jobs on this. At least not 100%. It's too obvious, hasn't been enforced, nor discouraged, and way too many Open Source implementations exist. Even IF the software DEVELOPERS cannot further deploy "finished" dockers, too much software capability exists such that nowadays, with a little finessing, end users can just "roll their own".

Use of IDE's and other exploiting well-available know-how will eventually tear down the onerous burden of software patents. The USPTO needs to STOP sucking up and the US needs to stop subsidizing its income stream from patents processing. After all, it's becoming all-too-easy to just do an end-run on the patents -- with a little creativity -- as go design patents, and maybe even *some* process patents that are dubious or outright *unworthy* of patent (artificial) protection.

You need special 3rd-party pager and taskbar widgets:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=49484
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=46021

You need special 3rd-party pager and taskbar widgets:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=49484
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=46021

As for Amarok, not sure if this helps, but you can have this script run a web server after which, you just need a browser on your other pc, and control it over your local network. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36970

What does he mean? He means he would like to see Kwrite ported natively to Windows.

The word processing component of Koffice, to which I assume you think he is referring, is called "KWord".

The problem is sometimes that we, the users, are not listened.

My proposal: Fix the fucking GTK-file-selection box! http://www.gnome.org/~seth/designs/filechooser-spec/
Why on earth is "Browse other folders" taking huge amount of screen estate (in save dialog)???
Do hidden files work (when I type ".bashrc" will gedit open it)?

Vista: http://www.tmssoftware.com/atbdev6.htm (?)
XP: http://www.microsoft.com/library/media/1033/windowsxp/images/using/setup/tips/68222-click-save.gif
Leopard: http://www.betalogue.com/images/uploads/finder/OpenDialogBox-ListView.gif
Java: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/figures/uiswing/components/FileChooserOpenMetal.png
Other: http://www.guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/openfile
More: http://www.raizlabs.com/interface/hall-of-shame/default.asp

There is even a theme to change it to KDE style!!!
KGtk: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/preview.php?preview=1&id=36077&file1=36077-1.png&file2=36077-2.png&file3=36077-3.png&name=KGtk+(Use+KDE+Dialogs+in+Gtk+Apps)&PHPSESSID=83fa01cf68ec222d01626c20f3ebe9af

I made a quick POS to do book sales with Python, PyGTK, Adodb, and MySQL. It was quite the learning experience, didn't take very long. I actually upgraded it just this past week to ensure that it worked on Windows (it did, so it's cross platform) I just cleaned up the UI a bit. If I had to do it again I would have coded it differently, but it works, and pretty well.

I recently came across Lemon POS, it looks good but haven't tried it yet, http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Lemon+POS?content=69945

In terms of bar code scanner, I had one for my own POS. I used the CueCat, modded by some entrepreneurial eBay seller. eBay for "USB Barcode Reader - Cue Cat CueCat CueCats Scanner", I think the seller was 'herder-of-cats'. He modded it to work like a keyboard, so it essentially just "types" out the barcode, no special programming required

I used my complete app in Linux, in Linux from Windows via NX, and on Windows XP, all three times with the CueCat barcode reader and a keypad (for when I had to manually enter ISBN numbers

If anyone is interested I can share the code, just need to remove some hard coded passwords.

my pet peevee with _any_ GTK based app is the filechooser.

it's ugly and far from intuitive.

there's a wrapper aplication that allows some GTK apps use KDE's filechooser, but it doesn't work with everyting.

if GTK developers really don't wan't to fix this, could they at least put something to allow the use of KDE's dialogs when the app is not running under gnome ?

BTW, the wrapper is here: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=36077

One KDE terminal emulator that OS X doesn't have an equivalent for is Yakuake, a terminal emulator that works like Quake's ingame console. You hit the shortcut and down pops a terminal. You're done, you press the shortcut again and it's gone. Quite nice.

The proper OS X equivalent would be a Dashboard widget, but since Dashboard requires you to stick to HTML/JavaScript there are no decent terminals for Dashboard. If only Dashboard's developer mode would allow me to drag regular windows onto the Dashboard...

I got old (fat) PSP for Christmas so I spent some time modding it out and here's what I've found.

4gb memory sticks can be found for $60 online and are a great investment.

You can use this program to backup your UMD disks and then compress them, put them on the memory stick, and tada.

iR Shell is awesome, it provides a the ability to control IR devices, nice skinnable shell, good file browser, lets you switch out of games (think alt-tab), play MP3s while you're playing a game and mute game music, toggle CPU speed, do adhoc wifi transfers between PSPs, take screenshots and much more, you can find a larger list of features (and the un-official forum) here.

PSP Vault has a very nice downloads section, tons of guides and very active forums.
Psp-homebrew has a great list of homebrew you can sort by firmware version. compatibility
QJ.net is another good resource.

PSP Radio lets you stream internet radio on your PSP.

There are NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, Sega Genesis, Neo-Geo, N64, Atari 2600, C64 and probably others.

Wifisniffer is a great probably that does just what it says.

PSP Weather is another good one.

PSP HTTPD lets you use your psp as a webserver.

Portable VNC lets you control your PC with your PSP and there is software that will let you use your PSP as your gamepad for your PC.

PSP XTI is a TI-92 (Graphing calculator) emulator for the PSP. GPS is soon coming to the PSP (USA only), it will be available as a UMD but no release date or price has been set.

There are many others, just browse the file collections and forums.

If you have a PSP with the factory firmware and wish to downgrade it can be an annoying process, it depends on what version firmware you're running.
This forum post as has the information you need.

Used PSPs can be had for less than $100 in stores near me, including a 1gb pro-duo stick, I think I've squeezed $100 worth of features out of it.
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You could always just re-encode rather than re-rip, that's 10 minutes work to set soundKonverter up (on KDE) and then just leave it running overnight. Quintessential player can be persuaded to do similarly on Windowz. You just need to have a decent amount more bitrate available in your source oggs as you want to output to your mp3s - a 'budget' mp3 player is unlikely to get any advantage out of a higher mp3 bitrate that 128kbps anyway, so if you have 196kbps or above oggs, you'll probably get away with it.

If you want native ogg playback, you could try an iriver player - the H-300 series is out of production now, so they'll either be cheap or expensive, they're complete bricks, but they play oggs, as do some other iriver players - there were a few which don't (such as the H10), so do check.

Firefox isn't a Gnome app, it just happens to use GTK+. Whether Gimp is a Gnome app is debatable... However, if you run KDE and dislike the Gnome file dialog (who wouldn't?), check out kgtk.

Yes, I hate it when the touchpad activates unintentionally. I've always wondered why the engineers don't put the touchpad at the TOP of the keyboard, rather than the bottom? Then it would not be accidentally activated when you are typing? (Hey, I want to copyright, patent, and trademark that idea! :-) You read it here first! :-) Also, linux KDE users have several options:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=50914
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=271052&highlight=disable+touchpad+while+typing

Et cetera...

Non-Annoymous Coward,
Ed Montgomery, Neo-pseudo-noobie-wannabe-laptop designer keyboard engineer

You can also take a look at my quick-hacked frontend for rsnapshot (for KDE) - RetrospeKt: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/RetrospeKt?content=57952 I wrote it mostly for myself but it is really handy.

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

For languages:

• Parley - Introduced in KDE 4
• KVerbos - in the Edutainment package of all KDE-based distros
• Rosetta Stone under Wine (gold rated as of 2006)
• Konjue - an add-on, but useful

For Physics:

• eduKator - an hypertext based book for physics instruction with working examples
• Step - a physics particle simulator

For Math:

• KAlgebra - a function plotter with advanced capabilities
• Kalcul - simple arithmetic trainer
• GeoGebra - similar to geometer's sketchpad
• At an upper level, Scilab, Octave, R, QtiPlot, RKWard

For geography:

• Marble - to be released with KDE 4
• KGeography - currently in the KDE Edutainment pack

For music:

• Score Reading Trainer
• KLearnNotes2 - a basic score tutor
• NoteEdit - reads midi files and converts them to scores - also great for composing
• A ton of other audio programs including Audacity, Rosegarden, etc. for composing, editing, multitracking...

For Mind-Mapping:

• Semantik

GenTube looks similar, although it only supports Youtube at the moment.

Actually you are wrong about there not being a Linux GUI. There is actually a pretty good one for KDE. It is Called OneKript:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/OneKript?cont ent=49071

For the record, there's a little application for KDE called Katapult that does the exact same thing as Quicksilver.

But the replying /.er was right: there's still nothing under Linux that compares to Indesign and its amazing typesetting algorithms. Much as I hate Adobe (and believe me, I hate them a lot!), their work on simplifying and automating typesetting is nigh-on breathtaking if you care about beautiful text presentation. The work done on Scribus thus far is impressive, but it's doubtful that it's going to come close in that arena for quite some time.

Ask and ye shall receive: kgtk. Doesn't work with every GTK app, but at least Firefox and Gimp seem to work fine.

That is nothing close to mentioned "app bundle". I guess something like http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=12841 was ment.

... but the implementation is not very good (yet).

It basically attempts to implement something like QuickSilver but comes out being much more like the much simpler Katapult. It's curious then why they aren't copying stuff like the activation keys, etc. QuickSilver and Katapult share the same basic keystrokes and they're pretty comfortable too.

I like the idea of the spell-check feature. I was always curious why this isn't the default behavior for text boxes in Windows as it is in Linux/KDE (where it's automatic) or on the Mac (where sometimes you have to hit a key-combo). I've been fiddling around with Vista a bit and am still surprised about how many little UI niceties that MS hasn't lifted from their competition. There's some good stuff out there, and I can't believe that they aren't aware of it. I haven't done much coding for Windows in a while, but I can see how under pre-Vista versions of Windows these things might be a little tricky to implement (perhaps that explains the large size of this app, about 10x that of QuickSilver or Katapult).

Linux needs a universal framework for application development

app installation/uninstallation

user configuration storage

sound and graphics

users won't have to install two entire desktop environments just to run all the apps out there

For Greeting cards you could try http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17869 Of course for high end use there is GIMP.
Family tree stuff I have heard about a few options.
There is always WINE if you want to try and run PAF but I have not tried it but it looks as if it can sort of work.

Yeah, they also Sit on my hard disk too.

Well, you can write plugins for Konqi, be they DCOP based service menus ala konqil.icio.us, or direct C++ extensions ala Digg.com plugin for Konqueror.