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SuperKaramba - Adding Beauty to Your KDE Desktop

Published
by
Linuxster is Linux Guider
on June 12, 2008
in How-tos
. 0 Comments

SuperKaramba is a KDE application which allows you to make KDE more ‘eye-candy’ by loading appealing and good-looking widgets on the desktop. You can have widgets which display digital or analogue clocks, system information and monitoring, weather reports, currently playing song in Amarok or other audio players and much more.

SuperKaramba 0.42


SuperKaramba is now part of the kdeutils package. To install SuperKaramba on a Debian system, just type apt-get install superkaramba.

Two of the Easy Monitor widgets

Downloading new widgets

Sigma Quad Monitor widget


I couldn’t make SuperKaramba automatically load the widgets on the desktop
after I restarted it, so they have to be added again manually, each time when starting SuperKaramba.

Updated: Jun 12, 2008 (Created: Jun 12, 2008)

2008.0_beta1 unleashed. No joke.

Published
by
Donnie Berkholz
on June 11, 2008
in Gentoo
. 0 Comments

When we said “soon,” even we didn’t
realize how soon it would be. 2008.0_beta1 is here. Your support
and enthusiasm are greatly appreciated—thank you.

You can help make 2008.0 amazing! Test out this beta and report any functionality issues
you encounter. Since this is the first beta, we’re looking only for bugs
in functionality, not bugs in appearance such as desktop backgrounds or
other artwork. We expect to release a second beta once your
testing has helped us fix problems with this first beta.

A migration to RPM was carefully
consideredagain
for this release, but in the end we decided to wait for the few
remaining RPM-using distributions to migrate to the superior packaging
format of ebuilds.

Get 2008.0_beta1 from the usual
places.

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