Kushal Das

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Amarok 2 Beta in Fedora 9

Amarok keeps rocking as always. You can grab the rpm from here (thanks to rdieter).

Amarok 2 Beta splash screen

With another great start , the ui as cool as the KDE4.x itself.

Amarok 2 Beta running

Though missing that blue colour, I specially liked the play menu buttons. Btw, remember to delete/rename the old ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db file as the db schema changed. Now if you want you can undo/redo tracks added in the playlist. You can use middle click on the system tray icon to play/pause. Need to play around some more time to understand the other new features. A screencast is on due for this.

Going around the problem

I posted this problem , one month back. This started when qt-copy upgraded to Qt4.x . makghosh told me to console login and do a startx , which helped. I just wrote a new .xinitrc file in my home directory. exec ~/kde/bin/startkde And after doing a console login from Ctrl + Alt + F1, I am just typing : startx -- :1

Thanks to Hobbes for the command syntax

Some news about KDE India :)

As I am back in Bangalore, I started getting into stuffs I left few months back. One of the major news is the new KDE-IN website. Some of the new things from the site described below:

FreeIndian: From the site: "FreeIndian is all about introducing Indian FOSS contributors, to the world. Individuals listed here, contribute to various Free and Open Source projects and could be programmers, artists, translators, FOSS advocates, maintainers, packagers and many more directly or indirectly involved in it. "

KDE apps review: Some excellent KDE apps reviewed :)

Tutorials: This section contains some screencast ( Video+Audio ) based tutorials on different KDE apps.

And the team is growing :)