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  Quickies: KDE e.V. Presidential Address, KHTML and WebKit, Qt4 Book, KDE4 on Mac Visuals
Quickies Posted by Troy Unrau on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @13:02
from the news-you-can-use-but-doesn't-get-its-own-article dept.
A number of KDE related news stories are floating about the interweb today, so here's a quick round-up. Aaron Seigo writes his KDE e.V. Presidential Address on his blog in an effort to force the e.V. to be more transparent about their activities. Over at Ars Technica, I have an article talking about the future of KHTML and WebKit: you'll be happy to know that this seems to no longer be a real problem. Daniel Molkentin has published a new book on coding for Qt 4.x which is now available for ordering at qt4-book.com. Lastly, I've stumbled across a short visual tutorial for those Mac OS X users among us that are looking to help test the KDE/Mac snapshots. Of course you can always go over to TechBase for the build instructions if you have some CPU cycles to spare.


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KHTML and Webkit
by fish on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @13:57
Call me stupid, but I didn't really get the news about KHTML and Webkit.

Sooo...have they merged or what? When will KHTML get abandoned? If it won't, why not? Where do the SVN commits go to? You guys have your own Webkit tree?

Questions over questions...
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webkit and new license
by vincent on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @14:40
Hi,
I'll be so happy to see this unforking but an eventual passage of kde to gpl3 are ok for webkit (or viceversa)?
Thanks
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WYSIWYG
by Emil Sedgh on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @15:00
WYSIWYG Editing is one of those things that is really missing in KDE.
Webkit has this ability, is this merged into KHTML?
Will we at last see TinyMCE, FCKEditor and other editors running in Konqueror?
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Any news about kdewebdev?
by Swaroop on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @15:16
Not sure if my question is relevant to this topic. I am a daily user of quanta plus. I didn't see any news about quanta plus been ported to qt4 or is there any features planned in quanta plus for KDE 4. In Linux we miss a good HTML editor like dreamweaver. The only better solution I think available to Linux user is quanta plus. I would like to know the status of this cool software. Thanks
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Qt 4 Book
by Jucato on Monday 23/Jul/2007, @17:48
Congratulations to Daniel for another Qt 4 book, this time in English.
I believe Johan Thelin also has a book, Foundations of Qt Development, which he said was going to get printed last week.

Unfortunately I will have to wait for a year before these books will be available locally, which is how long it took for two other Qt 4 books (C++ GUI programming and Introduction to Design Patterns) to be available. Hopefully I'll get my copy next month. Yay!

... now to wait for a KDE 4 Development book... :)
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no need to agree
by Jos on Tuesday 24/Jul/2007, @01:20
The Mac OS X installer asks the user to agree to the GPL license. There is no need for the user to agree to the GPL license. It only grants you rights and takes none away from you.

http://www.simplehelp.net/images/kdeosx/kdeosx5a.jpg
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KHTML is in Windows
by Irondog on Tuesday 24/Jul/2007, @03:09
KHTML / Konqueror rules. It feels so much better already on Linux than Firefox. Maybe Webkit will give Linux the speed of KHTML, with the reliability of Firefox.

I just got KHTML running on Windows:
http://gerte.nietbelangrijk.nl/pic/khtml_win.png
Maybe I'm a pure Webkit / KHTML user in a couple of months ;)
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Whats the big difference between Webkit and KHTML?
by Eric on Tuesday 24/Jul/2007, @04:43
I know that Webkit is still similar to khtml, but I don't know whats happened besides Apple taking qt rendering out of it. I am excited to see four large groups (Trolltech, Apple, Nokia, and KDE) working on a single layout engine. While I don't think its really fair that Apple secretly forked the components that make up Webkit (khtml, kjs, ksvg I think). It would be a good thing for KDE to jump in the boat with everybody else. Such an amount of collaboration could really help create an excellent engine for unix-like desktops. If I'm not on Linux I use Firefox, but Konqueror will always be my favorite browser.
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Quickie?
by Tim on Tuesday 24/Jul/2007, @07:16
It might just be me, but I think the "We are going to WebKit" news deserves it's own story, not a minor mention in a quickies summary.
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KOffice for Mac
by Acke on Wednesday 25/Jul/2007, @03:46
So when is KOffice coming for Mac?
Will it be available with KOffice 2, since it is based on Qt4?
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