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Update: it seems this is the natural evolution of the “Desktop Toolbox” widget, used to control Plasma.

One of the latest svn revisions brought us what seems a very accessible preferences launcher:

Right now it does nothing but grow the blue shade on mouse hover. Hopefully it won’t conflict with kwin4’s Exposé like effect, also triggered by moving the pointer to the top-right corner.

Announcing the KDE 4.0 Release Event and the KDE 4.0 Release Event Contest – On January 17-19, the KDE community will present KDE 4.0 with a Release Event at the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, and the KDE 4.0 Release Event Team is pleased to announce a contest for the occasion.

To prove that you are the most enthusiastic KDE community member, answer the question: “Why should you be at the KDE 4.0 Release Event?”

My take: KDE’s “marketing” vision is becoming more and more defined.

How to Run Web Applications Seamlessly on Ubuntu – A new browser from Mozilla, “WebRunner is designed exclusively for running web apps. Its main feature is the lack of the traditional web browser interface. With WebRunner, you can launch and use web apps like normal computer applications”

Apple Gives Hint About ZFS for Leopard – Developers have received from Apple a ‘ZFS on Mac OS X Preview 1.1′ package, which offers preliminary support for the ZFS file system, originally developed by Sun Microsystems for their Solaris OS

Avant Window Navigator 0.2 is out – With over six months since the last release, you’d think we were working on something as complicated as Gnome, but I think there are enough new features to show where the time has gone ;-)

Raptor! join the fun – Raptor tries to be a fresh new way of finding your desktop applications, and interacting with its users. It’s a new menu for the upcoming KDE4

RandR 1.3 and other future X.Org development – The X Developer Summit took place from 10th to 12th September and got quite some attention when AMD used the Summit to announce their release of hardware SPECS without any NDA. But there were of course other talks dealing with other, not less interesting topics and the notes about these talks are now available

Ubuntu on Front Page of New York Times Online – The article, “The Next Leap for Linux“, talks about the basics of Linux, Dell’s preinstalling, Ubuntu, and multimedia codecs.

Adobe Flex Builder For Linux Available – The Adobe Flex Builder Linux Alpha is designed to help developers build Flex applications on Linux.