Germany/France-based publishing house bomots.de announced this month the German book "K3b kompakt - das offizielle Anwenderhandbuch". This book talks about the famous CD and DVD burning application K3b which is part of the Extra Gear collection. ***
Linux Journal published the article: 'An Introduction to Hydrogen', an advanced drum machine programmed in Qt and highly rated at KDE-apps.org. ***
The Kolab project
has published a
thesis by Magnus Stoermer about Kolab the Free Software groupware solution.
Although the language is German it has a very liberal licence
which shouldn't stop anyone from translating this publication. ***
There is a new interface
for executing actions in a uniform way called
Logical Desktop, a successor
of the program segusoLand.
It is a quite interesting approach on using your desktop as you work by composing
one verb actions with one or more objects. ***
Did you create a beautiful-looking SuperKaramba theme? Well get your gem listed in the SuperKaramba Theme Archive. SuperKaramba can be downloaded from the usual website. *** Unifying your desktop seems like a hot topic these days. At KDE-look.org you can find an article
On Artemio's homepage
I read that the new
SUSE version 9.1 uses
KDEvibes,
a collection of system sounds for the KDE desktop. More system sounds can be found at KDE-Look.org.
KolourPaint
is progressing nicely as the latest version
brings new icons by Kristof Borrey,
a new user manual and numerous bug fixes and improvements.
Some time ago on kde-www there was a request
for volunteers to help with the amaroK website.
The amaroK team is considering to switch to a CMS based site so that they
get more organized with their content.
Some progress has been made on implementing the Google search bar,
a Konqueror plugin which can be found in
CVS.
It uses the default searchprovider as selected in Konqueror under the Web Shortcuts settings, so
it's not limited to Google only.
Unixreview.com has a nice article about Kuake, a Konsole application with the look and feel of that in the Quake engine.
