Volume 50 March, 2011 e17: Running Ecomorph e17: Configure The Everything Module To Do Everything e17: Settings Panel, Part 3 Free At Last! LibreOffice 3.3 Released Synaptic & The Repositories Video ­ Part 1: Time Shifting TV Programs Video ­ Part 2: Editing Your Recorded Video Avidemux Under PCLinuxOS Alternate OS: Icaros, Part 1 New Forum Launched: PCLinuxOS Kids WindowMaker on PCLinuxOS: The Basics Ladies Of PCLinuxOS: ms_meme PCLinuxOS & Linux In Greece Using Scribus, Part 3: Text! Text! Text! And much more inside! TTaabbllee OOff CCoonntteennttss 3 Welcome From The Chief Editor 5 e17: Configure Everything To Do Everything 8 Scribus, Part 3: Text, Text, Text 10 PCLinuxOS & Linux In Greece The PCLinuxOS name, logo and colors are the trademark of 11 Screenshot Showcase Texstar. 12 e17: Settings Panel, Part 3 The NEW PCLinuxOS Magazine is a monthly online 14 Ladies Of PCLinuxOS: ms_meme publication containing PCLinuxOS­related materials. It is published primarily for members of the PCLinuxOS 15 Double Take & Mark's Quick Gimp Tip community. The Magazine staff is comprised of volunteers 16 e17: Running Ecomorph from the PCLinuxOS community. 19 Screenshot Showcase Visit us online at http://www.pclosmag.com 20 Forum Foibles: Roman Holiday This release was made possible by the following volunteers: 21 Video ­ Part 1: Time Shifting TV Programs Chief Editor: Paul Arnote (parnote) Assistant Editors: Andrew Strick (Stricktoo), Meemaw 24 Screenshot Showcase Consultants: Archie Arevalo, Tim Robinson 25 New Forum Launched: PCLinuxOS Kids Artwork: Sproggy, Timeth, Mark Szorady Magazine Layout: parnote, Meemaw, ms_meme, Stricktoo 26 Video ­ Part 2: Editing Your Recorded Video HTML Layout: Galen Seaman 29 Screenshot Showcase Staff: 30 Free At Last! LibreOffice 3.3 Released Neal Brooks ms_meme Galen Seaman Mark Szorady 33 Screenshot Showcase Patrick Horneker Darrel Johnston Guy Taylor Meemaw 34 Alternate OS: Icaros, Part 1 Andrew Huff Gary L. Ratliff, Sr. 45 ms_meme's Nook: PCLOS Will Call You Contributors: 46 Avidemux Under PCLinuxOS Longtom Daniel Meiß­Wilhelm tschommer 50 Screenshot Showcase 51 WindowMaker On PCLinuxOS: The Basics The PCLinuxOS Magazine is released under the Creative Commons Attribution­NonCommercial­Share­Alike 3.0 53 Disclaimer Unported license. Some rights are reserved. 54 Synaptic & The Repositories Copyright © 2010. 58 More Screenshot Showcase 2 WWeellccoommee FFrroomm TThhee CChhiieeff EEddiittoorr Well, after a bit of doing, the ibiblio rsync "problem" Meanwhile, those of us in the Northern hemisphere magazine featuring the desktops that we've covered. has finally been ironed out. In the interim, we lost are preparing for the arrival of Spring. One of the Knowing that Gnome 3 was "in the pipeline," I some mirrors but gained some new ones. On some, most common thoughts that is associated with the purposely held off on covering the Gnome desktop the directory structure changed. If you haven't arrival of Spring is the annual renewal that it until the arrival of the new version. already done so, you will need to download the new delivers. In that vein, KDE 4.6 has hit the repository. source.list file. Save the file to Xfce 4.8 is nearing completion, It's appearing as if Gnome users are poised to your /home/[user]/Downloads and should be hitting the endure a situation similar to what KDE users directory. Open a terminal and repository very soon. Work is experienced when KDE moved from 3.5.10 to KDE gain root access. As root, first actively occurring to bring the SC 4.x, when the much anticipated Gnome 3 is enter cp 2.6.37 Linux kernel to the released in April. Hopefully, the Gnome developers /etc/apt/sources.list repository, as well. The work of have used the faulty delivery of KDE 4.x upon KDE /etc/apt/sources.list.orig. maintaining a distro like users as an example of how not to roll out a new This will create a backup of PCLinuxOS is never ending, major release. As you may remember, KDE 4.x was your original sources.list file. and Texstar and the rest of the met with a lot of resistance from KDE users. KDE 4 Then, enter cp PCLinuxOS developers work was different in a lot of ways, and a lot of KDE /home/[user]/Downloads/sourc tirelessly to bring you the most es.list 3.5.10 users didn't feel at home with those changes. stable and up­to­date /etc/apt/sources.list, and Plus, KDE 4 ratcheted up the hardware answer "Yes" when prompted applications and components. requirements considerably, so many users who ran to overwrite your old KDE 3.5.10 on older equipment could no longer run sources.list file. Alternatively, I'm going to depart from my KDE 4 on that same equipment. In fact, there is a you can follow essentially the usual rundown of the magazine fairly loud minority of KDE users who still will not same instructions that are contents this month. Instead, I move to KDE 4.x, opting instead to hold onto still­ posted in the forum by pinoc. want to talk a little bit about working copies of KDE 3.5.x for as long as they can. Once you've done either one Gnome 3. Anyone who reads of the methods above, you will The PCLinuxOS Magazine Just as what happened with KDE, the Gnome camp need to launch Synaptic and knows that, for over the last will experience many users who embrace the click on the "Reload" button to year, we've been writing changes that are forthcoming in Gnome 3. Many of read the new package list. extensively about the desktop those changes are quite radical, like doing away with Then, just update as you environments that PCLinuxOS the minimize, maximize and close buttons on the normally would. is available in as ready­to­ window title bar, eliminating the window list and not install LiveCDs. First, we giving laptop users a choice of suspending to RAM Since we've lost some mirrors started with KDE 4, then Xfce, or suspending to Disk when closing the laptop in the process, your "favorite" mirror may no longer LXDE, and finally, e17. Thanks screen. There will also be a very loud group of be valid and active. At the same time, since we've to Patrick Horneker, we're even covering dissenters who will resist the changes that Gnome 3 also gained some new repository mirrors, so feel WindowMaker, one of the alternate desktops in the delivers. At least under Linux, there are many more free to browse through the list and select one that's PCLinuxOS repository that doesn't have an ISO choices for desktop environments (Xfce, LXDE, closest to you. release. We've even produced special editions of the FluxBox, OpenBox, e17, WindowMaker, etc.), and 3 Welcome From The Chief Editor those who choose to not adapt to the changes in the move to KDE 4. Wait it out. Let the dust settle. Gnome 3 will have the opportunity to explore those See if the forthcoming changes in Gnome 3 actually other desktop environments. pan out with users, and see how many of those eliminated features find their way back into Gnome It's looking, early on, as if the move to Gnome 3 may 3. As you may remember, Texstar wasn't one of the not be much smoother than the move to KDE 4 was, early adopters of KDE 4, due to its early buggy after all. In fact, the Gnome developers may not releases. He chose to wait until it was more stable. have learned anything at all from observing the KDE In fact, he took some heat for not making KDE 4 4 fiasco. There are already complaints among more available to PCLinuxOS users, and for going Gnome users that the Gnome 3 developers are not with the more stable KDE 3.5.10 in the 2009 listening to the users. That's a situation that should releases. This one reviewer speculated that the dust sound quite familiar to any KDE user. Of course, should settle for the Gnome camp by version 3.2 (at there's always the "that's not me" and the "that was the earliest). Meanwhile, this particular reviewer is them and how they did it; we're doing it differently" exploring two options that KDE users has to choose mindsets among developers, when in reality, the end between a year and a half ago: keep his currently results are the same. Sometimes it seems that working, stable Gnome 2.x going for as long as he developers like to make change, just for the sake of can, or use the opportunity to explore other desktop change. My boss at the hospital has a saying that environments, such as Xfce. Sounds familiar, certainly rings true in this situation: "just because doesn't it? you can doesn't mean you should." There seems to be equal amounts of anticipation Of course, as with anything else that's new and and anxiety among Gnome users over many of the It's easier than E=mc2 evolving, it's always easy for those who don't do the changes that are coming. Even KDE users will be actual work to be a critic, and to sit back and take looking on, to see if the Gnome developers "get it It's elemental pot shots at those who are doing the work. The flip right." It is definitely going to be interesting to watch side of that coin is that users must be heard. They as the melodrama of the Gnome 3 release unfolds, It's light years ahead are, after all, the ones who will be using the end especially for Linux distros that primarily use the It's a wise choice product, and if it doesn't do what they need it to do, Gnome desktop, such as Ubuntu and Fedora.