theKompany.com has just announced that Rekall, the rapid application development database tool for Linux, similar in concept to MS Access, has been released under the GPL. Rekall can be built with KDE3 support as well as Qt-only. "Rekall will be supported via a community portal www.rekallrevealed.org.
Voting for the 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards has begun. There are awards for Distribution of the Year, Browser of the Year, Multimedia App of the Year and many other categories. KDE related projects up for awards include KDE, Konqueror, KWin, KOffice, KSpread, KWord, Quanta, KMail and Kate.
In this week's CVS-Digest:
A deeper freeze is called for in preparation for release. Kexi,
a graphical database application now has GUI and non-GUI parts.
Many bug fixes, including searching and sorting fixes in JuK,
topmenu fixes in KWin, CSS and JavaScript fixes in Konqueror.
Continuing the successful run of trade show presences, the KDE team used
the opportunity of this year's Linux World Expo and Conference in
Frankfurt, Germany to show off the latest K Desktop Environment. The booth staff presented the latest KDE pre 3.2 snapshots hot off CVS
as well as the last stable release KDE 3.1, to a broad audience ranging from
On Monday, thanks to the amazing help of Jill Ratkevic, Bruce Perens and Xandros, I was able to attend the Desktop Linux Conference to represent and speak about KDE.
As some of you may know, KDE 3.2 will introduce a heavily improved configuration framework, known as KConfig XT. This new framework extends, not deprecates our current configuration API.
After a not-so-long break, KDE Traffic is back. Issue #67 has just been released, with news regarding KMail, Kontact, general look and feel and more. Check it out at the usual place.
The USA Linux Users Group features an interview with George Staikos, restless KDE core developer and promoter. They are interested in what to expect in the upcoming release 3.2 of "the industry's leading Window Manager". Further topics include the default look and settings of KDE, what makes KDE successful, how it appeals to new users and of course the all time favorite question as to whether Linux and KDE are ready for end-users.
In this week's CVS-Digest:
Bug fixes and more bug fixes. Umbrello, KDevelop, Quanta, Konsole, KOrganizer encoding, KSpread,
