A large one is made to speak about menu for kde 4,1, of new concepts on which constructing sophisticated architectures and it works them, than, made curious, I have begun to try of someone. Thus here raptor, a menu that, with the exception of lancelot, is not a plasma applet, but an independent application, in fact nozzle with a simple one raptorbin from shell. The conception seems promising, even if the product is still very far away from the usable being: this the mockupand this that is successful to obtain I with the classic kdesvn-build playground/base/raptor.

Better to wait for better times

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As at this point they will have understood in many, new kde the 4, in particular in its version of development, in order to mean to us that which will become the 4,1, get passionate to me particularly, and I am not here to explain of the reasons, since the characteristics have been wide debated on the web. The object of this post is, instead, the Plasma Themes launch Contest the 21 of this month, whose rules are easy desumibili, also for who does not have much familiarity with the English, from the link of which over. For part mine I want to give my small contribution with a translation, much free one, of post the Creating to Theme Plasma in 7 Easy Steps.
An important plasma characteristic is the use of vectorial graphical elements (SVGs, acronym of Scalable Vector Graphics) that, between the other things, it allows to create a topic without having the necessity to know C or any other language of programming; need of the common instruments of diagram (as an example Krita, Inkscape, The GIMP, Karbon, etc) According to your abilities with these instruments is only had, a great plasma topic can be created in less than an hour.
Here like creating a Theme Plasma in 7 simple steps:

1. To copy and to rinominare a folder of existing topic. The new name of the folder can be the name of the topic. The installed topics come memorizzati in share/apps/desktoptheme/or in. Kde or in the directory of installation of kde. They can be found also on KDE-Look. To modify the rows metadata.desktop in the folder of the topic being written to us the name delnuovo topic. For ulterior deepenings here this link.
2. To open rows here.
   To notice that in order to construct the topic with some rows SVG (tasks.svg) it is necessary 4,1 KDE or a KDE version svn.
3. Every rows images raster (Krita, GIMP, etc) it is also possible to incorporate these images like elements SVG. To always remember to incorporate every image (inkscape: effects->images->embed all images).

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It has been released kernel 2.6.25-rc7 with a series of small variations and adjustments; “our” Linus Torvalds us of ago a enough complete report:
38,7% arch/powerpc/configs/
39,6% arch/powerpc/
42,9% arch/
2,4% drivers/ata/
7,6% drivers/block/
2,3% drivers/char/
2,0% drivers/message/fusion/
2,0% drivers/mmc/core/
4,1% drivers/net/
7,2% drivers/video
38,0% drivers/
3,0% fs/hppfs/
7,8% fs/
2,8% kernel/
2,0% net/

As you see the more large variations regard powerpc because of the update ones of defconfig, while for driver the changes they have been had in the drivers/block for the removal of the driver ps2esdi (considered “broken” from years), and in drivers/video with the introduction of new driver (a Metronomefb.c) for controller the E-Ink Metronome.
Besides these, the majority of the modifications is indeed little meaningful; the scheduler had some ritocco, while cifs and reiserfs some bug fixes.

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