Our friend Raphael Bauduin has interviewed KDE bindings guru, Richard Dale, on FOSDEM.Org. "The bindings are regenerated for each KDE release. I take a patch of the manual edits that were needed for the previous release. Then run the new headers through kalyptus, and apply the patch of manual edits.
Over the last few weeks, I have been busily adding a number of new features and enhancements to appsy. Most of them enable
greater customization of site content, such as receiving email notification when a particular application or any application within a particular category is updated. Others provide more information and statistics about the site and the software listed on it. And, not coincidentally, there is a new "news" system
where you can post comments on a story as well. You can find out about the
Matthias Kalle Dalheimer,
who besides being one of the initial KDE developers, author of a famous
c't article which helped galvanize KDE early in its life, author of an
important series of early KDE articles
(1,
2,
3)
Hancom Linux recently
announced
that the Korean government has procured 120,000 copies of
HancomLinux
Deluxe 2.0, which includes, among other things, KDE 2 and
Hancom Office.
This means that many more office workers will soon be using KDE for their daily
All aRts and KDE developers (or would-be developers) are invited to an IRC meeting in order to draft a short- and long-term roadmap for the future of video in aRts and KDE. Why? aRts is a solid base, and it would be a shame not to build a good video system on top of that, taking the best from the already existing video projects.
When: Saturday, January 26, 2002
21:00 GMT / 22:00 CET / 13:00 PST / 16:00 EST
Many KDE developers know that Lubos Lunak is a serious developer with a strong grasp of C++ and a penchant for posting helpful hints on the development mailing lists. KDE users will be happy to find out that Lubos is the developer behind the popular KHotKeys, a tool that has received high marks since its first appearance in KDE 1 and that is now a gem in Kicker's menu
Thanks to the efforts of Christopher Molnar, KDE mailing lists are now accessible read-only through NNTP at news.uslinuxtraining.com (news, web). In other words, KDE Mailing Lists are now neatly accessible through your favourite newsreader (KNode, tin).
Benjamin C. Meyer wrote in with the news that Kinkatta has been ported to Qt/Embedded. Kinkatta-Lite has been tested on Sharp's new Zaurus as well as the iPAQ.
According to a
story
at ZDNet (earlier story at
heise online),
SuSE has
been enjoined by a German court from distributing its distribution in
Germany, apparently because the court decided that the
Christian Couder is a contributor to the KDevelop project. He is working on integrating Eiffel language development support into the third iteration of KDevelop (codename: Gideon). Christian answers Tink's questions in this week's edition of the People Behind KDE.