KDE will be represented at the large US computer show COMDEX, in Las Vegas, from the 17th to 20th November, as a result of placing second in a poll run by O'Reilly Network.
Andreas Beckermann wrote in to point out the huge amount of progress in the latest release of Boson (0.9), a real time strategy game for KDE. Screenshots here.
The latest release of PyKDE (3.8.0) includes the ability to write KDE panel applets completely in Python -- absolutely no C++ required.
With the new year fast approaching, beta testing of the upcoming KDE 3.2 release has begun. The KDE Project is excited to announce the immediate availability of "Rudi", the first beta version of KDE 3.2.
The third series of television show 24 started in the US last week. In the aim to improve security, The Counter Terrorist Unit seem to have switched operating system from MacOS to KDE. Interestingly they used a 3-year-old KDE 1.x desktop. These older icons are made available under a public domain licence.
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: Feature freeze instituted for 3.2 release. Groupware support merged, sort of. Many bug fixes, including 'enter closes completion popup' in Konqueror.
The KOffice team is pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate of KOffice 1.3. As we're approaching the final release, we definitely need more users to test and report bugs -- there are still some left.
As KDE 3.2 is approaching and the first Beta version is near, more and more people are testing it. Therefore, a lot of new bugs are appearing in KDE's bugtracking system. While this is of course a good thing, it is much easier for the developers if all the reported bugs are (still) valid and precise enough. Everyone with a current version of KDE is able to do this cleanup-work, coding-knowledge is not needed.
In this article, NewsForge's Joe Barr takes CD/DVD creator K3b for a spin and likes it. "K3b does more than burn audio, ISO, and data CDs. It can clone CDs and it handles DVDs, too.
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest:
KHotKeys now has a GUI. KOrganizer now supports todo attachments.
Kexi has a PostgreSQL driver. Bug fixes in KHTML layer support and
rendering engine. Many bugfixes in KMail,
Kopete and