Hey all!
Just wondering if anyone is willing to work with me on writing up a magazine article for KDE in Fedora 23 on the Fedora Magazine? -- we are trying to get a bunch of magazine articles focusing on the new things in fedora 23, and it would be awesome to have one about the KDE spin.
The problem here is that i am primarily a GNOME user, and not sure what the new KDE brings to users in Fedora 23, so someone to help me out here would be awesome!
cheers, ryanlerch
On Wednesday 04 Nov 2015 8:36:22 AM Ryan Lerch wrote:
Just wondering if anyone is willing to work with me on writing up a magazine article for KDE in Fedora 23 on the Fedora Magazine?
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for taking the initiative.
Here's a rough draft I have created. I would like it to be looked over by some more experienced member of this community before your critique. Please feel free to make grammatical changes. I will also add a screenshot for each of the sub-headings.
***** Fedora 23 KDE Plasma Desktop brings you the best and the latest of Fedora and KDE Plasma Desktop. KDE Plasma Desktop is a modern and a familiar desktop environment for your everyday computing needs.
Fedora 23 KDE Plasma Desktop features Plasma 5.4.0, KDE Frameworks 5.15, and KDE Applications 15.08. Plasma 5.4 includes a new audio applet, Application Dashboard, updated breeze icon theme, KRunner auto-completion, Networks applet with graphs. Notable changes in KDE Applications 15.08 are KF5 based Kontact suite app and file manager Dolphin. Firefox is now the default web browser.
*New Audio Volume Applet*
Plasma 5.4 contains a new and improved audio applet. The design is based on Breeze theme which brings even more consistency to the system tray. It works directly with PulseAudio. Puvcontrol users will find it familiar to use.
*Application Dashboard*
Application Dashboard is an innovative and a contextual app launcher. The full screen app launcher features full spatial keyboard navigation. There are three main columns - favorites, recent apps, and categories. Any app or document or contact can be added to your favorites. It's now much easier to open that work document or contact a family member.
*Breeze Icon Theme*
Breeze icon theme in Plasma 5.4 packs 1400 new icons which not only covers KDE apps but brings improved and native looks to Inkscape, Firefox, LibreOffice, etc.
*KRunner*
KRunner can now auto-complete your searches from history as you type.
*Networks Applet*
Networks applet in Plasma 5.4 shows speed graph and connection details. Two new VPN plugin to help connecting over SSH or SSTP is also supported with this release.
*Firefox as default browser*
Firefox is now the default browser for Fedora 23 KDE Plasma Desktop. Konqueror also comes pre-installed along with Firefox.
Contributing:- Please show you support and talents by joining KDE community here at Fedora. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE
Sources:- https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.4.0.php https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-15.08.0.php https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.15.0.php
*****
On 11/05/2015 05:21 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
On Wednesday 04 Nov 2015 8:36:22 AM Ryan Lerch wrote:
Just wondering if anyone is willing to work with me on writing up a magazine article for KDE in Fedora 23 on the Fedora Magazine?
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for taking the initiative.
Here's a rough draft I have created. I would like it to be looked over by some more experienced member of this community before your critique. Please feel free to make grammatical changes. I will also add a screenshot for each of the sub-headings.
Fedora 23 KDE Plasma Desktop brings you the best and the latest of Fedora and KDE Plasma Desktop. KDE Plasma Desktop is a modern and a familiar desktop environment for your everyday computing needs.
Fedora 23 KDE Plasma Desktop features Plasma 5.4.0, KDE Frameworks 5.15, and KDE Applications 15.08. Plasma 5.4 includes a new audio applet, Application Dashboard, updated breeze icon theme, KRunner auto-completion, Networks applet with graphs. Notable changes in KDE Applications 15.08 are KF5 based Kontact suite app and file manager Dolphin. Firefox is now the default web browser.
*New Audio Volume Applet*
Plasma 5.4 contains a new and improved audio applet. The design is based on Breeze theme which brings even more consistency to the system tray. It works directly with PulseAudio. Puvcontrol users will find it familiar to use.
*Application Dashboard*
Application Dashboard is an innovative and a contextual app launcher. The full screen app launcher features full spatial keyboard navigation. There are three main columns - favorites, recent apps, and categories. Any app or document or contact can be added to your favorites. It's now much easier to open that work document or contact a family member.
*Breeze Icon Theme*
Breeze icon theme in Plasma 5.4 packs 1400 new icons which not only covers KDE apps but brings improved and native looks to Inkscape, Firefox, LibreOffice, etc.
*KRunner*
KRunner can now auto-complete your searches from history as you type.
*Networks Applet*
Networks applet in Plasma 5.4 shows speed graph and connection details. Two new VPN plugin to help connecting over SSH or SSTP is also supported with this release.
*Firefox as default browser*
Firefox is now the default browser for Fedora 23 KDE Plasma Desktop. Konqueror also comes pre-installed along with Firefox.
Contributing:- Please show you support and talents by joining KDE community here at Fedora. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KDE
Sources:- https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.4.0.php https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-15.08.0.php https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.15.0.php
This is perfect!
Have you ever logged into the magazine before? You can do so with your FAS account (instructions here: http://fedoramagazine.org/logging-into-fedora-magazine-with-fas/) Once you have logged in, shoot me a email, and i will grant you author status, so you can create a new post.
also +1000 for screenshots :)
cheers, ryanlerch
On Thursday 05 Nov 2015 9:47:10 AM Ryan Lerch wrote:
Have you ever logged into the magazine before? You can do so with your FAS account (instructions here: http://fedoramagazine.org/logging-into-fedora-magazine-with-fas/) Once you have logged in, shoot me a email, and i will grant you author status, so you can create a new post.
I have added the blog post to the magazine's draft's folder. Please take a look.
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Sudhir Khanger