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Nokia To Add LGPL Option For the Qt UI and Application Framework

Vivek Gite — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:12:02 +0000

Good news for all developers! QT will be available under the LGPL starting with version 4.5. The GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) is a free software license published by the Free Software Foundation. The LGPL places copyleft restrictions on the program itself but does not apply these restrictions to other software that merely links with the program. There are, however, certain other restrictions on this software. The LGPL is primarily used for software libraries, although it is also used by some stand-alone applications, most notably Mozilla and OpenOffice.org.

This option could increase Qt usage and adoption. You may see more cross platform commercial application on the Linux desktop. This is huge news for cross-platform developers.

New Notification System for GNOME and KDE

Vivek Gite — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:51:55 +0000

Canonical the makers of Ubuntu about to introduce a new desktop notification system proposal. New changes should improve the usability of the Linux desktop including desktop notification system for both GNOME and KDE. From the Mark Shuttleworth blog:

The key proposals we are making are that:
* There should be no actions on notifications.
* Notifications should not be displayed synchronously, but may be queued. Our implementation of the notification display daemon will display only one notification at a time, others may do it differently.
That's pretty much it. There are some subtleties and variations, but these are the key changes we are proposing, and which we will explore in a netbook device with a partner, as well as in the general Ubuntu 9.04 release, schedule gods being willing.

I think new changes looks more like Growl system used in Mac OS X. You can read more about proposal including mockup video that shows new notification system here.

Download of the day: Fedora 9 CD / DVD ISO

Vivek Gite — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:00:48 +0000

Fedora 9 has been released and available for download. Some of the more interesting new features include a new package management system and other softwares.

Download of the day: Opensuse Linux 10.3 GM CD / DVD ISO

Vivek Gite — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:46:15 +0000

Opensue Linux version 10.3 GM has been released. The openSUSE project provides free, easy access to the world’s most usable Linux distribution, openSUSE. openSUSE is released regularly, is stable, secure, contains the latest free and open source software, and comes with several new technologies. The latest version of the popular Linux distribution has a lot [...]

I turn my Linux computer off and when I turn it on it runs disk check (fsck) on hard disk. Why?

Vivek Gite — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 11:12:13 +0000

A typical question asked by many new Linux users. The answer is pretty simple: Your partitions are not being unmounted properly when you last shutdown the Linux desktop. Linux needs to shutdown properly (I’m sure this applies to Windows and Mac OS too) before powered off. If you skip this step there could be data [...]

How to: Control Amarok Media Player with Bluetooth Enabled Phone

Vivek Gite — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:46:19 +0000

This is a nice hack and a small how to about controlling Amarok media player: Ever since I’ve received my new phone, bluetooth has excited me. To be honest, the notion of being able to control my pc from the phone was the exciting aspect. Ever wondered how to do this? Let me elaborate. (Image [...]

Gnome per user language encoding configuration using .dmrc file

Vivek Gite — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:56:04 +0000

Sometime you may see different language encoding in X than on your console (tty) prompt. Sometime two different user need two have different language encodings. ~/.dmrc file - Per-user language support In theory this file should be shared between GDM (Gnome) and KDM (KDE), so users only have to configure things once. This is a [...]

Download of the day: SSH Menu ~ Save and Open SSH Connections on a single mouse click

Vivek Gite — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:28:59 +0000

For last couple of years I’ve used my own shell script based solution to list and open ssh connections. Now I found a nice applet called SSHMenu: The SSHMenu is a panel applet that makes all your regular SSH connections a single mouse click away. Each menu option will open an SSH session in a [...]

Amarok audio player for Linux / UNIX Tips and Howto

Vivek Gite — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:09:22 +0000

Amarok is an audio player for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. This article offers some good tips for new Linux users: Amarok is one of the best audio players for Linux, but there is a lot more it can do than just play your tunes. We are taking a look at our top five tips [...]

Download OpenSuse Linux 10.2

Vivek Gite — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 20:27:25 +0000

Update: Download latest OpenSuse Linux version 10.3. I know most of us tired of answering questions about the Microsoft-Novell deal.. but OpenSuse Linux 10.2 is here.... openSUSE is a community project, sponsored by Novell, to develop and maintain SUSE Linux components (such as YaST). Some of the Good application included: * AppArmor: gives certain applications [...]

Quick way to switch from KDE to GNOME or viceversa

LinuxTitli — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:44:30 +0000

This tip is submitted by reader Zacharie: switchdesk is the command to switch from KDE to GNOME or viceversa. This command provides a simple method of choosing between the various desktop environments available under Fedora Core, Cent OS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. If X Windows is running, switchdesk will bring up a dialog box [...]