The Nové Hrady program committee is proud to announce the schedule for the conference program of the KDE Contributor Conference 2003. From now on only minor changes are expected to happen. Conference registration for all attendees is still possible until 29th July. Companies are invited to support KDE and the conference with their attendance.
Have you ever wondered what the KDE developers were thinking? Have you ever wondered what motivates or annoys KDE developers? It was these questions that prompted the development of http://www.kdedevelopers.org/, an online weblog for KDE developers.
The first, very-alpha, release of the Qt library on
DirectFB is now available for testing! A lot of things still have to be
implemented, so please don't expect to be able to run Konqueror on DirectFB
(yet). You can find screenshots and a link to the source here.
YellowTAB is a German-based company developing an operating system called "Zeta". Based on the BeOS source code, for which they have obtained legal rights to use, it is meant to be the next-generation version of the now 3 years old BeOS r5.
Franz Schmid, who has been diligently working on the excellent Desktop Publishing application
Scribus
(screenshots) for over
two years, this week
announced
the first stable release. Available in 17 languages, Scribus is billed as "the first
This week's digest features: Kig Python scripting support,
KPilot Palm generic db viewer, an action menu in
Konqueror to print
files, DVD burning in K3b, RDP support completed in krdc (KDE Remote Desktop Connection) and an httpmail
As always, the KDE Team participated in this year's LinuxTag which took place in Karlsruhe, Germany. LinuxTag is a platform for Free Software projects and Linux related companies with an exhibition area and a wide range of talks. With more than 19,500 visitors, this year's LinuxTag has become the largest Linux event in the world. Even away from the KDE booth, there was a lot of KDE
stuff to see. (Update: Pictures of KDE/GNOME dinner added.)
KDE Traffic #58 has been released, at long last. Covers discussions on artsbuilder, brockenboring, and more. And, oh yes, lots and lots of cute, tiny, fuzzy kittens. Get it at the usual place.
I finally got to meet Wil Wheaton of Star Trek TNG fame. Wil is a great guy, a very good writer and an open source advocate we can all be proud to have on our side.
In this week's digest: The KDE Kolab client nears release. Klaviatura, a simple proof-of-concept on-screen keyboard is added to kdenonbeta demonstrating the possibilities of QAccessible and DCOP.
