In less than two weeks, openSUSE 12.3 will be on your doorstep. Or rather, on the mirrors, ready for use. If you are curious to know what is coming, this first sneak preview is for you! We’ll talk about what’s new on the desktop: GNOME, KDE, XFCE and Enlightenment as well as the applications. Enjoy! (more…)
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Sneak Preview I: openSUSE 12.3 for Desktop Users
March 6th, 2013 by Jos PoortvlietopenSUSE KDE Team Meeting
September 24th, 2012 by Will Stephenson| September 26, 2012 | ||
| 19:30 | to | 21:00 |
“Le Grand Reboot”
Wednesday 6th, 1730 UTC, in your timezone
Further items are appreciated; please add them and your IRC nick to http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_Meetings The meeting will happen in #opensuse-kde IRC channel on irc.freenode.net (feel free to add yourself to the list of people who should be notified before the meeting, at http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:KDE_meetings_ping_list). Everyone is welcome to join in and participate!
Agenda so far:
1) Team organization.
- Election of an Overal Team Coordinator
- Election of a responsible person per repository
2) KDE repositories
- What do want to achieve and how
- development workflow for new openSUSE releases
- Targetted KDE version for openSUSE 12.3
- Improvement points for KDE in openSUSE 12.3
3) Status, Q&A etc
Sneak Peek: GNOME in openSUSE 12.2
September 4th, 2012 by Will Stephenson
Sneak Peek: openSUSE 12.2 and KDE
September 4th, 2012 by Jos PoortvlietopenSUSE comes with the 4.8 series of the KDE workspaces, applications and platform. This release, as you can read in the announcements is mostly focused on improving the user experience.
Starting up
Booting up openSUSE, you notice the nice new splash screen as well as the short boot times, courtesy of Plymouth and an improved systemd. But you’ll notice speed everywhere: this openSUSE release ships with Linux 3.4.6, a kernel release with a nice number of improvements to the storage layer. Moreover, openSUSE is build with GCC 4.7 and glibc 2.15, bringing speedups all over the system. You’ll notice this especially in the performance of low-level tools like the command line and GUI versions of zypper, our package manager. Especially relevant for the desktop is the inclusion of Qt 4.8.1 which makes your applications noticeably more responsive. The version of KWin part of KDE 4.8 comes with its own share of optimizations, with much more efficient painting. In short, boot up in openSUSE 12.2 and feel the speed! (more…)
openSUSE in Fosscomm 2012
May 22nd, 2012 by Koudaras KonstantinosOnce again, the Greek openSUSE community was present and rocked in the Free open source software communities meeting, which took place this year in the beautiful town of Serres. We had 5 talks and 1 workshop.
- The openSUSE Project-talk (Kostas Koudaras)
- Yast-talk (Kostas Koudaras-Stathis Agrapidis)
- openSUSE Medical-talk (Stathis Iosifidis)
- OwnCloud-talk (Stathis Iosifidis but originally registered from Chris Loukas)
- OBS-workshop (Stathis Agrapidis)
- Gnome Extensions-talk (Stathis Iosifidis)
- Animal Shelter Manager-talk (Stathis Iosifidis) (more…)
GNOME Accessibility Hackfest (interview)
February 7th, 2012 by Koudaras KonstantinosA few weeks ago in A Coruña, Spain a Hackfest around GNOME Accessibility took place hosted by Igalia . openSUSE found the opportunity to make some questions to the people involved and then learn a bit more about this interesting Project. Our interviewers were Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias, Joanmarie Diggs and Juanjo Marín.
1 – What is ATK and AT-SPI in simple words?
AT-SPI is the acronym for Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface. Its main purpose is to provide a means for an assistive technology to interact with an application. For instance, the Orca screen reader wants to present newly-inserted text, such as a new instant message, to the user. Therefore Orca asks AT-SPI to inform it whenever text gets inserted. When Orca is told what text has just been inserted, it can present that new text to the user in speech and in braille. Similarly, Orca presents each newly-focused object to the user as the user navigates via the keyboard. Orca can do this because AT-SPI tells it each time a new object gains focus.
