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Amarok on the Way

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Feb 12th, 2007

When we posted a while back that OS X native ports of KDE applications were headed to the Mac, one of the biggest outcries was for Amarok, the KDE music player. Word now comes on the Amarok Blog that Amarok is being actively developed for the Mac. Although it's far from running properly (the back-end database support isn't working yet), it has been built and run on OS X as you can see above. While there's still a long way to go (and nothing yet to download), I suspect this news will make a few people around here very happy, even if the rest of us figure to stick with iTunes.

[Via Digg]

Tags: amarok, kde, linux, music player, MusicPlayer

Filed under: Software, Open Source, Developer

Native KDE Applications Coming for OS X

by Mat Lu (RSS feed) on Jan 16th, 2007

To be frank, I'm not entirely sure why, but somebody has taken it into their mind to port Linux KDE4 applications to Mac OS X. As we've previously mentioned, KDE has been able to run using Apple's X11 Window System, but this new effort will be better integrated into OS X, including the use of Aqua. What this means is that the KDE Workspace (desktop environment) itself won't be ported, but certain applications like KOffice and Konqueror will. They will appear to run just like native OS X applications, with Aqua windows, etc.

The author mentions at the end of his article the advantages of bringing KDE applications to the other platforms. His main point seems to be that KDE users will benefit as developers on other platforms are exposed to the KDE Applications (e.g. Safari's underlying HTML rendering engine-Webkit-started out life as KHTML from KDE, so as websites have moved to support Safari better, Konqueror users have benefited as well). Perhaps it's just because I'm not that familiar with the KDE applications, but I'm just not really seeing how this benefits OS X users that much. That said, I guess I'll chalk this one up to more is better, and besides, it's a pretty cool technical achievement if nothing else. Let me know in the comments if there are any applications from KDE you're really looking forward to.

Thanks Paul!

[Update: As usual TUAW readers are great. Thanks for all the app suggestions; now you've got me excited!]

Tags: KDE, konquerer, linux

Filed under: Software, Internet Tools

Opera to include its own widgets

by Dave Caolo (RSS feed) on Feb 7th, 2006

Forget podcast overload, I'm suffering from widget overload. There are Konfabulator widgets (now called Yahoo! Widgets Engine) and Apple Dashboard widgets. Microsoft will included "gadgets" with Vista, KDE will soon support Dashboard widgets and a soon-to-be-released version of the Opera web browser will feature its own built-in widgets. Phew.

The next preview version of Opera to be released (scheduled for some time this week) will include tools that will allow users to view information drawn from certain websites, like sports scores or weather reports, without having to continually revisit those sites. A dozen "demo widgets" will be included. Integrated BitTorrent search and download will also be a part of the Opera preview release.

The idea of widgets written and launched directly from a browser is kind of interesting. I'll have to check this out.

[Via MacSlash]

Update: It's available now.

Thanks, James!

Tags: dashboard, gadgets, kde, konfabulator, opera, widgets

Filed under: OS, How-tos, Open Source

Make KDE look like OS X

by Scott McNulty (RSS feed) on Dec 28th, 2005

Let's face it, not everyone gets to use OS X. It is sad, but it is true. In fact some people have to use Linux running KDE (K Desktop Environment) of all things!

If you are one of those sad souls a tutorial has been put together that makes your computing environment look kinda like OS X, so that you can at least pretend that you are using some cool Mac when in fact you're using some no name beige box that your little brother built for you (not that there is anything wrong with that).

Tags: kde, linux, osx, tiger

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