Chemnitzer Linux-Tag 2004, Germany's second largest Linux community event takes place March 6 and 7 on the campus of the University of Technology in Chemnitz, Germany.
Lukas Masek (aka luciash d' being) has announced the successful completion of the move of the KDE Wiki to the KDE Dot News server. With the move, KDE Wiki gains not only more computing resources, but also a new domain name in the form of wiki.kdenews.org.
KDE Traffic #75 is out with news regarding KDE's future, KDE Edu, HTML message composition for KMail and more. In case you missed the previous edition, which wasn't announced on the dot due to personal problems, follow the link to KDE Traffic #74.
At The People Behind KDE this week an interview with the man who represents what working and contributing to a project like KDE stands for. He is outspoken, always helpful, has broad view of things that KDE needs and it's future, he is passionate about politics and social issues. He is from Cowtown, in The Great White North: Canada's own Aaron Seigo!
After 8 months of development, KolourPaint 1.0 "Seagull" is available for download. KolourPaint is an easy-to-use paint program for KDE that makes user-friendly painting and image editing a reality for the desktop user.
In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: KolourPaint adds transparent selections.
Some preliminary work on a new control center.
KMail adds IMAP folder expiry.
KDevelop adds Opie code templates.
A group of KDE hackers went to the FOSDEM event to represent KDE. FOSDEM is a two-day summit were leading developers in the Free Software community come together. It is an event held by developers, for developers where you can attend many interesting presentations, mingle and hold discussions with other projects.
I needed to learn how to develop a plugin structure for my baby KimDaba, and what better way is there to learn, than to write a howto about it? So I did, and with the help from the real experts (Simon Hausmann, David Faure, g++, et al), I'm pretty convinced this will be of value to anyone who either wants to add a plugin structure to an application, or who wants to write a plugin.
Ars Technica features an article "Deep inside the K Desktop Environment 3.2" written by Datschge and Henrique Pinto. After introducing KDE and the project's structure the authors present some new applications of KDE 3.2.
The People Behind KDE series is back from a long vacation thanks to overwhelming popular demand. In this first interview, KDE's ever so charming Tink gets back with Matthias Ettrich to see what has changed since the previous interview now more than three years ago.