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.

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

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.

Currently running KDE 4.8.1 on openSUSE 12.1 with 3.2.9 kernel. One thing i always love about KDE is it’s customization of almost everything. You can customize it from head to toe the way you want it. In the screen shots below, i would also share my desktop settings if any one else might want to try it out.

Desktop theme: Produkt

Windows decoration: Bespin

Style: Oxygen

Fonts: Droid Sans

Icons: MaliaeSVG

Colors: Mint-RGS

Kwin beclock at the right top corner.

MeliaeSVG Icon Theme is an icon set created by sora-meliae. It is quite clean and very refreshing icon theme. Love the simple and cleanse look of the icons.

It is for Gnome, and i am using KDE so how can we install it inside KDE desktop. That is quite easy. 1st download the zip file from deviantart. Extract the zip archive, a new file with .tar.gz will be extracted.

Now open ‘Configure Desktop’ in KDE from kickoff menu. Click on ‘Application Appearance’ and choose ‘Icons’ and click on ‘Install new theme’, browse for the theme which you just extracted(.tar.gz one). And bingo, there you go.. apply it and you will see the changes immediately.

More information here.