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Javier Jardon, developer at GNOME development community, officially announces the release of GNOME 3.13.4 desktop environment with new features and minor fixes. As you know that this a development version, so you may find any issues while using it on your system. This release is from Strasburg and for GUADEC.

According to official announcement, GNOME 3.13.4 comes with improvements in GNOME Shell, GNOME Control Center, GNOME Tracker and other new features. This release also includes updated core apps such as Network Manager, adwaita-icon-theme, atk, baobab, clutter, cogl, dconf, Eye of GNOME, gdk-pixbuf, gnome-control-center and gnome-desktop.

Apart from core app updates, this release also includes some updated applications such as bijiben, cheese, devhelp, evolution, file-roller, four-in-a-row, gedit, gnome-boxes, gnome-weather, iagno, rygel, tali, vinagre and gnome-maps. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Matthias Clasen, developer at GNOME community, officially announces the release of stable GNOME 3.14 desktop environment with new features and improvements. This desktop release is most awaited from past six months and includes 28,859 changes.

According to official announcement, GNOME 3.14 comes with new animations in activities overview along with new window animations. It provides automatic handling for Wi-Fi hotspots which requires you to login. It supports for browsing Google pictures in Photos. 

Among other updates, GNOME 3.14 includes a redesigned weather application which uses geolocation to show the weather for your current location along with improved touchscreen support with multi-touch gestures for both the system and applications. For complete list of new changes, you can visit their official announcement page.

This latest GNOME 3.14 release also includes major improvements for developers including GTK+ Inspector, the ability to use SVG assets as part of GTK+ themes, improved touchscreen support and major progress towards Wayland. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE Desktop Environment. It is primarily produce as the result of merge between LXDE-Qt and Razor-qt projects. Recently, LXQt 0.7.0 released with new enhancements and several bug fixes. In our previous post, we have already discussed what's new in LXQt 0.7.0 Desktop Environment ?

In today's HowTo Tutorial, we will discuss how to install LXQt 0.7.0 Desktop Environment using repo on Fedora 20, 19, 18 and OpenSUSE 13.1, 12.3 Linux Distros. You might also like to check out latest Software News on our website.

Step Wise Installation of LXQt 0.7.0 (Desktop Environment) using YUM repo on Fedora 20, 19, 18

Step 1 : Before beginning the installation, open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to download yum repository for LXQt 0.7.0 on your Fedora system.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to remove existing LXDE Desktop environment on your Fedora system.

Step 3 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to update yum repository so that recently added LXQt yum repository get updated on your Fedora system.

Step 4 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest LXQt 0.7.0 via yum repository on your Fedora system.

After installation, when yu switch to LXDE desktop environment then you might notice that it is updated to newer version. If you are using OpenSUSE distro and want to install latest LXQt 0.7.0 then you should follow the commands given below.

Step Wise Installation of LXQt 0.7.0 (Desktop Environment) using repo on OpenSUSE 13.1, 12.3

Step 1 : First open the terminal and run or copy the following command in terminal to download latest repo for LXQt 0.7.0 on your OpenSUSE system.

Step 2 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to remove existing LXDE desktop environment from your OpenSUSE system.

Step 3 : Next, run or copy the following command in terminal to referesh or update recently added repo on your OpenSUSE system.

Step 4 : Finally, run or copy the following command in terminal to install latest LXDE desktop environment on your OpenSUSE system.

After installation, when you try to switch to LXDE desktop environment then you will notice that it will updated ot 0.7.0 version.

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Cinnamon developers officially announces the new update for Cinnamon 2.6 which comes with new features as well improved existing features. The main highlighted feature of Cinnamon 2.6 includes improved search providers, improved support for client-side-decorated windows, improved overlay when using media keys and improved tiling overlays and previews.

According to official announcement, the major update of Cinnamon 2.6 includes panel support for multiple monitors according to which you can add panels to multiple monitors and configure them individually. After upgrading, you will find a "Modify Panel" option through which you can easily configure the panel. Apart from this, you can also get options for adding new panel, moving or deleting existing panel. You might also like to check out other latest Software News to know what's new in them ?

The new search providers has the ability to add search providers to Cinnamon which allows its users to advance search directly from their desktops. For new LMDE release, the team has updated their support for newer GTK3 client-side-decorated windows. They also ported popup which appears when you change volume, brightness and other things to be rendered entirely in Cinnamon. For detailed changes, you must visit their official changelog page.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Applications and Platform 4.13.3 with minor new changes. Well this updated KDE Applications and Platform is the third release under monthly stabilization updates to 4.13 series.

According to official announcement, KDE 4.13.3 comes with updated Plasma Workspaces 4.11.11. This release primarily includes only bug fixes along with minor translation updates. Under language section, Farsi (Persian) language reached at essential criteria, so that's why it is the part of this release.

The Kopete application has received minor important fixes which includes fixed formatting of both plain and html messages when OTR plugin is enabled, loaded but not used for encrypting messages in chat window and fixed generating of html messages in jabber protocol.

Apart from these changes, KDE 4.13.3 also includes more than 40 recorded bug fixes which mainly includes improvements to Personal Information Management suite Kontact, Umbrello UML Modeller, Desktop search functionality, web browser Konqueror and file manager Dolphin. You might also like to check out other Software News on our website.

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Budgie Desktop developers officially announces the release of Budgie 8 Desktop version with simplified main menu, cleaner animations and much more responsive desktop. This release main includes 78 commits with 36 file changes along with 3577 insertions and 351 deletions.

According to official announcement, Budgie 8 Desktop Environment comes with several options for Budgie Menu to panel preferences which allows its users to use traditional layout which we have earlier Budgie Menu view. The IconTaskList feature of Budgie 8 Desktop receives support for pinnning and "attention" hint and also uses .desktop files for quicklists and for icon resolution.

The Budgie Desktop panel gets initial autohide support along with support for shadow onall screen edges and dynamic support for gnome panel theming. The Budgie Menu adds default compact mode and removes old power option. The Editor includes all menu options to UI. This latest version supports GNOME 3.10 up to GNOME 3.16 without any major complexity. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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GNOME community officially announces the release of GNOME Control Center 3.13.92 which is also known as GNOME Control Center 3.14 RC1 with new features and minor bug fixes. The GNOME Control Center is one of the critical section of GNOME Desktop because it is the main interface for configuration of various aspects of your GNOME desktop.

According to official announcement, GNOME Control Center 3.14 RC1 comes with few translation updates along with updated libgd to fix GdNotification theming. The date & time feature of Control Center doesn't require hard-coded font size. The background of Control Center uses a stack with three views for chooser dialog and also fixes background chooser dialog resizing when switching views along with fixed memory leak in Flickr support.

Apart from these changes, GNOME Control Center 3.14 RC1 also includes fixes in network and user accounts. The network section of this Control Center fixes possible crash when wireless-enabled changes, fixes more potential crashers for WAN, report hotspot is running only if device is active and don't show underlying device for VPN connections.

Among other fixes, it includes fixed various UI padding issues along with fixed focus in the account dialog. It also fixes empty folder list by default. You might also like to check out other latest Software news. Don't forget to subcribe us and share your reviews about this post among other readers via comments.

KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.7.0 with new changes and improvements in KDE Apps. As you all know that this is just a maintenance release of stable KDE Frameworks 5.x version. KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provides a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.7.0 comes with number of fixes for compiling with upcoming Qt 5.5 along with several fixes in KDE aaplications including fixes in KActivities, KArchive, KAuth, KCMUtils, KCodecs, KConfig, KConfigWidgets, KCoreAddons, KDBusAddons, KDeclarative, KdedKGlobalAccel and KIO applications.

The KActivities app includes fixed starting and stopping activities and fixed activity preview showing wrong wallpaper occasionally. You can now create temporary files in the temp dir rather than in current directory in KArchive whereas KCodecs receives support for CP949 to KCharsets. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

The Plasma Framework receives fixed errorneously opening a broken context menu when middle clicking Plasma popup and fixed keyboard shortcuts. It also includes trigger button switch on mouse wheel and restore hint-apply-color-scheme support. If you wish to checkout complete list of all changes then you can review them on release notes page.

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Ubuntu developers still working on Unity 8 and claiming that it will going to introduce new and advanced features which were not present in Unity 7. Currently, Unity 8 won't ready for regular users but only available for developers. As you know that Unity will be the desktop environment supported by Ubuntu derivatives only and also allows its users to upgrade their Unity desktop from Unity 7 to Unity 8.

According to official announcement by Will Cooke, it is officially confirmed that the apps, UI tweaks and other things make the application more secure and stable which will be directly apply to desktop as well. The community is planning to make a single converged operating system ready for public use by Ubuntu 16.04 release.

Unity 8 desktop is already implemented in Ubuntu Touch operating system, which is designed for Ubuntu Phones and Ubuntu Tablets. The developers are saying that it will take little time before they release Unity version for desktop users because they are putting lot of efforts in automating the features of Unity 8 for desktop users.

The upcoming new Ubuntu Desktop going to provides applications decoupled from OS updates, application isolation and full SDK for writing Ubuntu apps. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website. Don't forget to subscribe us and share your reviews about this post among other readers via comments.

KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.5.0 with new addons, improvements and minor fixes in KDE applications. As you know that KDE Frameworks is the collection of 60 addon libraries to Qt which provides a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.5.0 comes with improvements in KDE applications such as Attica, KActivities, KCMUtils, KCodecs, KCompletion, KCoreAddons, KDeclarative, KEmoticons, KHTML, KIO, KJobWidgets, KNewStuff, KNotifications, KRunner, KService, KTextEditor, KWidgetsAddons and KWindowSystem.

The Attica application now uses all of QT_PLUGIN_PATH paths rather than just QLibraryInfo path to look for plugin whereas KActivities received a fixed plugin loading with KDE_INSTALL_USE_QT_SYS_PATHS ON. The KCodecs introduce KEmailAddress class for email validation, adds KCodecs::encodeRFC2407String() and also uses more robust implementation of MIME codecs taken from KMime library.

The KCoreAddons gets KTextToHTML class for plaintext->HTML conversion, add KPluginMetaData::metaDataFileName() and also allows you to read KPluginMetaData from .desktop files. Other changes in KDE Frameworks 5.5.0 includes fixed compilation with Qt 5.2.0, fixed platformstatus kded module and adds thumbnailAvailable property to PlasmaCore WindowThumbnail. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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Canonical officially announces the completion of four years of Unity desktop environment and celebrates this event with other Ubuntu developers. As you know that since Ubuntu 11.04, every release includes default Unity desktop environment and now it completes four successful years. Well Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" was the first one to adopt new Unity desktop environment.

During its early period, Unity desktop environment was not favored by lot of people because of its new for them and not much user friendly than GNOME 2.x desktop environment. One thing was done great by Ubuntu developers that they kept GNOME desktop packages along with Unity desktop packages and gave liberty to its users to change their desktop environment according to their needs.

The main objective behind providing Unity desktop because earlier lot of people complaining about issues of GNOME 2.x desktop and also they want new features. Some of the patches were also sent by Ubuntu developers but wasn't accepted by GNOME community, so they have planned to design their own desktop environment. After four years, Unity is quite popular among Ubuntu users and they appreciate whatever changes made by Ubuntu developers in Unity desktop environment. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of first beta of KDE 4.14 Applications and Platform. As you know that KDE team already fixes API dependencies and now they are focusing on bug fixing and polishing the user interface. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

According to official announcement, KDE 4.14 Beta 1 comes with large number of new changes and now available for testing purposes. The developers are waiting for the feedbacks which will be given by the KDE users as they would know what's difficult for them.

You can easily install this latest KDE Software Compilation 4.14 Beta 1 either with the help of binary package or with the help of source tarball. Some of the Linux derivatives already released the binary package for KDE 4.14 Beta 1 but in case if your Linux Distro haven't released KDE 4.14 Beta 1 yet then you must download the source tarball of KDE 4.14 Beta 1 for your Linux Distro.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of KDE 4.14.3 for both applications and development platform. Well as you know that this is the third release in the series of monthly stabilization updates to KDE 4.14.x series. This might be the last release under 4.14 series because the project has been decoupled into KDE Frameworks 5, KDE Plasma and KDE Applications.

According to official announcement, KDE 4.14.3 Applications and Platform comes with minor bugfixes and few translation updates which together provides a safe and pleasant update for its users. This release includes more than 50 recorded bugfixes which primarily includes improvements to E-Mail client KMail, Umbrello UML Modeller, the document viewer Okular, RSS application Akregator and file manager Dolphin. You can download and install KDE 4.14.3 on your KDE based Linux Distro by referring to installation guide.

Some of the fixes which are made in KDE 4.14.3 includes add option to open-with and also disable preview, automount of new devices does not work, automount of removable media fails, cursor disappears when black background color is selected, dolphin view always follows console CWD, untranslatable strings in titrationCalculator.cpp and video preview in information panel don't work. If you wish to check out complete list of all bugfixes then you can visit their official changelog page.

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KDE Community officially announces the release of second release of KDE Frameworks 5 which is also known as KDE Frameworks 5.1 version. This release is out as per schedule and contains new features and bug fixes of previous KDE Frameworks release.

According to official announcement, KDE Frameworks 5.1 comes with some of the translation fixes along with few Windows compilation fixes. The major refractories and improvements of vi-mode are made in KTextEditor. The KAuth application is now based on PolkitQt5-1 and new migration agent is added for KWallet application. This release also includes new install dir for KXmlGui files and Appstream metainfo.

The main highlighted feature of KDE Frameworks 5.1 is that the Plasma desktop takes an advantage of OpenGL. David Edmundson, who worked on Plasma with OpenGL, state that " I have been working hard the last weeks. It’s not that we don’t usually work hard, but this time I’m really excited about it". The complete info about Plasma with OpenGL is given here.

As we know that in Plasma, the most important part of system drawing is painting frames. Those are in general elements which are specified in Plasma themes. These will be buttons, dialog backgrounds and line edit decorations. To paint those we were assembling the full image in the CPU and then sending it over to OpenGL as a full texture, then we would do the composing of all the different frames, according to the information provided by QtQuick, through the Qt Scene Graph. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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