Natural Born Coder

Tag: Desktop

  • KDE Plasma and Virtual Desktops

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    I was really surprised to find the out of the box KDE Plasma doesn’t seem to have virtual desktops turned on (or at least it’s set to a single desktop). I know Windows technically has this now but it’s still one of the things I love about Linux, the implementation is so smooth. To add…

  • Year of the Linux Desktop?

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    I just read this article over on betanews (not I site I’d ever seen before) stating that Linux was dead on the desktop because of Windows 10.

  • Swing Look and Feel Choices

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    Java on the desktop has, for the most part, been a bit of a joke. For years it has suffered from clunky badly supported development and a small range of absolutely awful look and feel options. That seems to be changing slowly but I do wonder if it’s not too little too late. Either way…