KDE Traffic #75

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.

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by Datschge (not verified)

Both a nice read, thanks =)

by Charles de Miramon (not verified)

Thank you for the KDE Traffic done without Internet Access. Writing KDE Traffic is a hard work that have exhausted several people (me, being one of them). I hope we can find some volunteer to help Henrique.

Cheers,
Charlkes

by m. (not verified)

Don't remove KTouch from KDE-Edu. AFAIK this is the only GUI program for learning of touch typing for Linux. And one of few at all (I know only (g)typist and TTCoach).

by Alex (not verified)

I agree, Ktouch is a nice useful application.

by annma (not verified)

yes, of course KTouch will not go but it needs people to work on it. KDE evolves, some classes become obsolete, new ones come in so each program should have some 'maintainance'.
I hope that new people will join, we began a new webpage with tasks to be done before the KDE 3.3 release
http://edu.kde.org/development/open_tasks.php
so if you feel like helping, you can have a look here and complete one of the tasks (proof reading, icons, WhatsThisHelp, ....)

Thanks to KDE Traffic for covering KDE-Edu :)

by m. (not verified)

Don't know C++ and cannot help much :(

by annma (not verified)

You can always help, you can check the doc and improve it, you can provide data in your own language for edu progs (KTouch has some .keyboard files for example), you can provide pics, icons, ... There is a lot of work that does not require C++ at all. And this is as important as coding :-)

by m. (not verified)

Heh. I tried to write .keymap files for KTouch but without docs its very hard. Also don't like unicode (which is necessary for Polish). At the end I wrote TTCoach ;)

by Debian User (not verified)

Hello,

why don't you make him the gift of a new modem? Obviously he is cash strapped, but a loss for KDE. A modem would not be much, but his time would be invested for KDE.

Ah, the joy of asking others to give money to others... Still, good thing to do.

Kay

by anon (not verified)

Wonderful idea, but how about a different name? KNew"Stuff" sounds a bit unprofessional.

by Alex (not verified)

"I understand that KDE 4.0 is intended to be based on Qt 4, which is perhaps still some time away, so we are probably doing a KDE 3.3 release.

I see KDE 3.3 as a shorter release (perhaps 6 months?), with fewer new features than KDE 3.2 provided (that is, KDE 3.3 - KDE 3.2 < KDE 3.2 - KDE 3.1 in features terms).

Should we begin planning both 3.3 and 4.0? Do we have a RD for 3.3? Can we start roughing out a schedule?

And is there any chance that we can ship KDE 3.3 in konjunction with the proposed kdepim 3.3 release?

Thoughts"

That is my feeling too, KDE 3.3 should be a quick release 6-8 months, KDE 4 will be the real shining star anyway and a point release should not be so long.

by Swoosh (not verified)

I know that this issue has been discussed almost forever now. But I'm still curious about the KDE-projects position in this matter. Has there been a release of some public statement somewhere?

by Datschge (not verified)

Why should KDE make a public statement about an unrelated project?

by Anonymous (not verified)
by Anonymous Coward (not verified)

It's unrelated because the license change only affects distributers, not end-users (unless they don't want to use for idealogical reasons)

by Mark Smeets (not verified)

Henrique, set up some paypall thing. I'll give you money for a modem. Maybe others will join in to get you that printer and sound card. (that's a hint, people)

Mark.

by Nash (not verified)

Yup, count me in too.