Gran Canaria Desktop Summit Review: Video of Plasma Netbook UI and Qt KDE Lab in South America
Jul 14, 2009The KDE team are to work closer with Kwin developers to reinforce the integration of the KDE window manager into the project. The announcement was made at the end of the joint Gnome and KDE Gran Canaria Desktop Summit that came to a close July 11.
more »GitX Clone Gitg Moves to 0.0.4
Jul 11, 2009The young Gitg project, which visualizes a graphical representation of git data for Mac OS X under Gtk+/GNOME, allows check-ins and merges in its newest release 0.0.4, among other things.
more »Video: Stallman on DRM, Patents and C #
Jul 09, 2009In another of our videos of the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, Richard Stallman declares his position on DRM, patents and C #.
more »Mutter: Window Manager in GNOME's Future
Jul 08, 2009GNOME developer Thomas Thurman describes the future of the Metacity 2 window manager in a project blog. Apparently a new GNOME component named Mutter will be taking over its functions.
more »World Robotic Sailing Championship Starts in Portugal
Jul 07, 2009The first world robotic sailing championship to be held on the open sea will start tomorrow in Matosinhos, Portugal. A number of the unmanned boats will be sailing on Linux systems.
more »Mono Back and Forth: Already Part of GNOME Standard Installation in Lenny
Jul 07, 2009The Debian community has been arguing over the last few weeks about whether Mono should be part of the standard Debian installation. Now it appears that it has already been an integral part of the sofware ever since Lenny.
more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Akonadi for the Integrated Desktop
Jul 05, 2009The Cross-Desktop Metadata track at this year's Gran Canaria Summit highlighted developer activity targeting central storage of contact data, email and other personal information.
more »Gran Canaria Desktop Summit: Maemo Switches to Qt
Jul 05, 2009Nokia will be using the Qt toolkit for its Maemo user interface in the future, according to an announcement the firm made at this year's Gran Canaria Desktop Summit.
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