Calligra 2.4 is released – Office and Graphics suit

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Calligra team has announced the 1st ever stable release of Calligra suit formerly known as KOffice. It is combination of office suite, graphic apps and management app. There are many improvements over time and the transition was made in the mean time from KOffice to focus on a separate product. There are two touch computing apps for mobile platforms. Calligra mobile and Calligra active are added to this suite, which itself are useful tools. It is light weight and goes easy on system resources. Complete apps are listed below,

Office applications:

  • Calligra Words – Word processor
  • Calligra Sheets – Spreadsheet app
  • Calligra Stage – Presentation app
  • Calligra Flow – Flowcharts and Diagram app
  • Braindump – Note taking app
  • Kexi – Visual database creator

Graphics applications:

  • Krita – Drawing app
  • Karbon – Vector graphic app

Management applications:

  • Calligra Plan – Project management app

Mobile applications:

  • Calligra Mobile – Nokia N900 smart phone
  • Calligra Active – targeted for plasma active devices

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Read detail announcement here.

If you are on openSUSE, installation will be quite easy. Just open terminal and become root by su - , type:

zypper in calligra calligra-braindump calligra-flow calligra-karbon calligra-kexi calligra-krita calligra-kthesaurus calligra-plan calligra-sheets calligra-stage calligra-words

That’s it, use it, explore it and then review it.

Kompare – Useful tool for comparing files

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Ever heard of Kompare?. An application from KDE worth trying out. Ever run into this situation when you need quick solution for comparing two files and want to see the differences between the two files. Let’s assume you have two versions of files for index1.php, index2.php and want to know the exact differences between these two files. Kompare can do that for you. It has very simple interface. You can set the options, change font colors for comparison. It will be installed by default in KDE, if you have KDE desktop. But if not or want to checkout it out in other desktop environment in openSUSE.

Kompare-KDE-app

Just open terminal and become root by su - and type:

zypper in kompare

That’s it, you can now use it.


KDE 4.8.2 is OUT

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KDE team released a bug fix release version[4.8.2] for 4.8 series, last month we saw 4.8.1 and here is 4.8.2 with many bug fixes. There are no features added, as this is only updates and bug fix release. Major updates pushed to XRender in the Kwin window and compositing manager, dolphin new engine and tweaks in the plasma quick-based new window switcher, Kontact and many more. Head over to announcement page for more details.

plasma desktop 4.8

If you want to install/update it in openSUSE 12.1, this post might be helpful.

How to install Google Chrome in openSUSE

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Don’t be confused about Chrome and Chromium. Both are browsers and using the same engines, then what’s the difference?, the difference is one is actively developed by open source community[Chromium] and the other is maintained and developed by Google[Chrome]. Google Chrome can say provide stable version, while Chromium is dev build version[unstable] which is stable though but have new features which then go to Google Chrome stable version later. Chromium is already provided in openSUSE default repositories. But for Google Chrome we need to add new repository. Which will have three versions, stable, beta, unstable. If you want to have different versions of this browser, install both Chromium and Chrome. Currently i’m running both versions, stable version from Google[Chrome] repository and dev build[Chromium] from openSUSE repositories. 1st of all open terminal and become root by su - , and then type, choose your system architecture:

64bit version

zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/x86_64 Google-Chrome

32bit version

zypper ar http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/i386 Google-Chrome

Now type:

zypper ref

And install Google Chrome:

zypper in google-chrome-stable

Now you will have two versions of Chrome/Chromium browser.

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