As scheduled, the KWinTV rewrite has left the vapourware stage with the first alpha now available. It looks great already, and should become a killer application for those of you owning a TV card. " This release is intended as a basic demonstration of the design of the application.
After a good year of public existence, KPovModeler 0.2 is released.
KPovModeler is a full-featured graphical modeler and composer for creating POV-Ray(TM) scenes under KDE 3. It now supports almost the full gamut of POV-Ray 3.1 functionality -- see these nice screenshots. KPovModeler is a new member of the KDE Graphics package, but we are still looking for a documentation writer to join the project.
The Kooka team is proud to announce the launch of the official Kooka website. Kooka is a scanner management suite for KDE with support for Optical Character Recognition (OCR).
Guarddog is an easy to use, yet powerful, firewall for Linux machines running KDE 2 or 3. Guarddog isn't just a pretty GUI face thrown over the standard command-line firewalling utilities, it allows you to quickly and easily specify your firewall policy at a high-level, and then takes care of the rest. The first release candidate, version 1.9.15, is out and now needs heavy user testing.
As part of the May 2002 issue of "Application of the month" series on KDE.de, Klaus Stärk has interviewed Håvard Frøiland, author of KTouch. KTouch is part of the KDE Edutainment Project and provides a quick and fun way to learn the useful and impressive skill of touch typing.
Thomas Capricelli, Philippe Fremy, and Mickael Marchand are pleased to present the first ever stable version of KVim, finally bringing us "the power of VIM with KDE's friendliness". In case that means nothing to you, VIM stands for Vi IMproved and has become the defacto standard version of Vi on most Linux distributions.
Klaus Stärk informs us that
the German KDE website has
announced
the April 2002 App of the Month:
KView.
As usual, the useful (German) review includes a screenshot-laden
Frank Schwanz, the developer of Komba,
a popular Samba share browser,
today announced a security release. All versions of Komba2 prior to today's release are
affected by a flaw which permits other users easily to learn a share
password whenever the share is mounted. All Komba users are encouraged
Richard Moore has been
working diligently on a rewrite of
KWinTV, the KDE
TV-card application. The "new" KWinTV (screenshots:
Channel
Wizard;
Channel
Wizard - Scanning;
Channel
Klaus Stärk informs us that
the German KDE website has
announced
the March 2002 App of the Month:
Kate
(appsy
entry).
