Lucas Murray shows us a preview some improvements grilled desktop (desktop grid) to be included in the next release of KDE.

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Lighting of the screen "Soft" (Slow fade the exit from mouse)

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The team launches gnome announced what modules will be added to its next version 2.24. New products include Empathy, some "widgets" for instant messaging client included with the project Hamster, a small tracking tasks, and PolicyKit to increase security in the administration of user privileges. The new synchronization tool Conduit failed to be included in the next gnome, nor did it WebKit, anque are most likely present it in Gnome 2.26.

Short summary
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In:
empathy (desktop suite)
project hamster (desktop suite)
clutter (external dependency)
libcanberra (external dependency)
PolicyKit & PolicyKit-gnome (external dependency)

In, but not as expected:
conduit (external dependency)

Out:
libgda
WebKit/GTK+

Removed:
gtksourceview (replaced by gtksourceview2)
libgnomeprint & libgnomeprintui (replaced by API in gtk+)

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The site LWN.net reports on the sentiments found in the mailing list gnome concluded after his recent conference GUADEC. Apparently, some members of their community clearly felt that the development of Gnome has slowed, that the project lacks vision and that same gnome is threatened with losing their relevance to users (!). Plans for Gnome 3.0 now seem to be detained, pending major decisions for the future.

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The package kdeutils has been part of the KDE desktop since the early days of KDE 1.0 (but before), despite that, never had its own website within this project. But with the announcement of the new utils.kde.org this injustice is finally remediated.

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