KDE Traffic #75

Monday, 1 March 2004  |  Hpinto

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.

Comments:

Cool double pack! - Datschge - 2004-02-29

Both a nice read, thanks =)

Thanks - Charles de Miramon - 2004-02-29

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

KTouch - m. - 2004-02-29

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).

Re: KTouch - Alex - 2004-03-01

I agree, Ktouch is a nice useful application.

Re: KTouch - annma - 2004-03-01

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 :)

Re: KTouch - m. - 2004-03-01

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

Re: KTouch - annma - 2004-03-01

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 :-)

Re: KTouch - m. - 2004-03-01

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 ;)

Sponsor him... - Debian User - 2004-02-29

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

KNewStuff? - anon - 2004-03-01

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

Release cycle - Alex - 2004-03-01

"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.

XFree86 new license - Swoosh - 2004-03-01

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?

Re: XFree86 new license - Datschge - 2004-03-01

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

Re: XFree86 new license - Anonymous - 2004-03-01

Unrelated? And it happened before: http://xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000524.html

Re: XFree86 new license - Anonymous Coward - 2004-03-01

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

paypall - Mark Smeets - 2004-03-02

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.

Re: paypall - Nash - 2004-03-03

Yup, count me in too.