[dot] KDE at Lugradio Live 2006

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From: Ben Lamb <>
Dept: four-large-gents
Date: Tuesday 01/Aug/2006, @17:11

KDE at Lugradio Live 2006
=========================

   "Wow, that's impressive!" was one of many comments made by visitors
to the KDE stand at LUG Radio Live 06
[http://www.lugradio.org/live/2006/]. Five of the KDE-GB crew attended
the two day event in Wolverhampton demonstrating the latest Kubuntu
distribution, Dapper Drake, and the finest KDE applications, including
Digikam, to over 400 attendees.
    Ben Demonstrates KDE
     Jonathan Riddell gave a talk
[http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/lugradio2006/] covering Kubuntu and the
current development of KDE 4.  The talk included some of the changes and
additions made to KDE in Kubuntu and the exciting technologies being
created for KDE 4 such as Plasma, Solid, Live UI.  He also mentioned
Bazaar [http://bazaar-vcs.org/], the new distributed revision control
system from Canonical.

     "Many users hadn't used KDE for several years and were unaware of
the quality of the latest apps." said Ben Lamb who was demonstrating
Digikam [http://www.digikam.org] to visitors. "These are tools that
would cost hundreds of pounds to buy for proprietry platforms."

     We also showed off Katapult [http://wiki.thekatapult.org.uk/Home],
a program launcher utility that ships with Kubuntu. Simply hit Alt-Space
and type the first few letters of the program you want, once Katapult
has identified the program a large version of its icon and name are
shown, hit return to launch the program.

     One of Katapult's developers, Martin Meredith, explained how the
forthcoming version offers quick spell-checking functionality and will
even start playing your favourite music in amaroK if you enter the name
of a track or artist. Users can also write their own plugins for the
utility.

     The stand had a definate Kubuntu theme to it thanks to the artwork
of Ken Wimer on the banner, the stylish t-shirts from Kenny Duffus we
had on sale and of course the hundreds of Kubuntu CDs we gave away.

     It became apparent from talking to users that even those who don't
use KDE as their desktop depend on the rich library of KDE applications
to perform their work. K3b, Amarok and KPDF were frequently cited as
being superior to any alternatives.

     We also enjoyed the fine cuisine of Wolverhampton (curry), sold a
t-shirt to Mark Shuttleworth, met with our friends from Gnome
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/197547977/] and enjoyed the
Saturday night party.  See the photos
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jriddell/tags/lugradiolive2006].  Many
thanks to the Lugradio crew for hosting another fun event.