Kernel Cousin KDE is back with Issue 29.
Aaron J. Seigo, Rob Kaper and Timothy R. Butler once again summarize discussions from the development mailing-lists. This issue covers a new Kate export, KBugBuster, KOffice filters, and Emacs-style keybindings amongst other new goodies!
KDE.de (KDE's German-only site) has
selected
KNotes
as the Anwendung
des Monats for this January, 2002.
Along with a
screenshot-rich
PC World.com is running a
story
about the technologies to watch for 2002. Besides predicting consolidation in the Linux distros (particularly that RedHat
will swallow up another distro), the article opines that
"[t]he arrival of Sun Microsystem's StarOffice 6.0 and continued
work on the KDE desktop graphical interface could make Linux a more
Many in the KDE community are aware of some rocky history between
KDE hacker Mosfet and other KDE developers.
Fortunately, it looks like things have taken a great turn for the better:
Mosfet wrote in to tell us that "I've decided to donate 20 effects I ported to KDE/Qt
for PixiePlus to KDE3".
Waldo Bastian promptly
Good news for many
FreeBSD and
Sun Solaris users:
you can now get a precompiled KDE 2.2.2 from the
normal locations.
The FreeBSD
packages are
said
Meni Livne, who lives in Israel, is KDE's Hebrew localization coordinator and the maintainer of the
KDE Israel website. You can read all about him in this weeks episode of
People behind KDE. On a
snownote, Tink and Konqi have made a cute
The KDE Project today (OK, yesterday now)
announced
the release of KDE 3.0Beta1. The announcements contains the typical
package locations and summary of changes (visit the
developer's website for
a more detailed list of planned feature additions for
KDE 3.0 and the current progress). Since beta releases always
The KOffice project today announced the release of KOffice 1.1.1.
KOffice is a free, Open Source, integrated office
suite demonstrating the richness and power of the KDE development environment.
The release, out less than
three months after the long-anticipated KOffice 1.1 hit the KDE ftp
servers, mainly improves performance, printing (particularly in
KWord), and stability.
The announcement
Arash Zeini is from Iran and takes part in translating KDE into Farsi. In his dialog with Tink for this Sunday's column of People behind KDE, Arash demonstrates that KDE helps lower borders, and facilitates friendships and collaboration instead. Here is a tribute to the diligent and efficacious work of the KDE translators.
Another Kernel Cousin KDE has arrived! Issue 28 covers mouse gestures in Konq/E, SVG support for KDE, Norwegian verbs, another KDE2+3 howto, and other exciting events in the world of KDE development.
