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Kommander, the graphical scripting tool, has been radically improved for KDE 3.5.9. While our next goal is a KDE 4 executor, then a full update we wanted to offer some new functionality for KDE 3 users. Best of all, shortly you will be able to run what was built in KDE 3 unaltered and native in KDE 4. In 3.5.9 the focus was on the executor, but new features are in the editor. That includes popup menus, KPart creation, a DatePicker widget, widget creation on the fly, embedded widgets, standard dialogs, and a lot more. There is a new plugin architecture and new plugins for database, KParts, HTTP connections and even a KHTML widget. Read on for more. Read More

The Kommander team is proud to announce a new development release which has some bug fixes but most importantly a new text editor. Along with this we are releasing two new plugins for databases and HTTP forms. We have also updated our site with an article and tutorial section starting out with an Introduction to Kommander. We also have a development news section. More is in the works to be released in the coming week. Remember Kommander is developed almost entirely through sponsorship funding and actually saw little development for several months partly due to funding shortages. Your financial support is welcome. Read More

The Quanta development team is pleased to announce our Hot New Stuff server implementation is now running. This means that Quanta Plus users can now begin taking advantage of KNewStuff. We are also preparing for exciting new developments we want to work on during the upcoming Akademy in Ireland. We will have at least four developers there and we very much appreciate any help rasing funds for travel, accommodation and other expenses. Two of our developers have notebooks running 500 MHz or slower and I would like to get them new notebooks for the conference. You can contributed to the project at the kdewebdev site. Finally development has resumed on Kommander, read on for full details. Read More

It is hard to believe that our last official fund raiser was in mid October of 2004. As a member of the community you might think that represents a lot of success for our fund raising efforts as we have done fund raisers as often as every few months. Nothing could be further from truth. In actuallity we were already behind when a $100 a month sponsor was forced to pull out. Fortunately his heartfelt plea was amazingly successful at replacing over a year of his sponsorship. Unfortunately we did not come close to replacing the sponsorship amount. Having been so busy we have not been able to do a fund raiser and it occurs to me our developers need something special for Christmas. Will you help make that happen? Read More

The KDEWebDev site is being formally launched. It's been some time since people started making cracks about the old site, and now after all this work we don't expect to have reached everyone's ideals. This site however is on it's way to being exemplary, and we finally feel it's good enough to announce. We are not done with it either. We also have a news item about what we're working on at aKademy. Along with exciting steps toward true innovation in supporting developers with superior tools there is also a reminder that we have sponsored developers and we are behind this year in paying them. The small difference of a donation from a few users adds up to big differences to us. Read More

Kommander is on its way to become one of the most compelling tools in KDE. It has elements that should be very interesting to application developers, power users, newbies and companies looking at using the Linux desktop. So the answer to the question many of you may be asking, "What is Kommander?", really has to be answered from each perspective. A simplified technical description is that Kommander is two programs, an editor and an executor, that produce dialogs that you can execute. Read More

The Quanta team has just released the first Bleeding Edge technology preview of Quanta from the new kdewebdev module. This includes KMDI, CSS enhancements, a new link checker, imagemap editor and a new embedded PHP debugging interface (be sure to get Gubed and the howto for setting up Gubed if you want to try it out). There's too much new to list in a small space but you can run Quanta BE and Quanta side by side with separate configuration files and there is crash recovery. So there is no risk in trying it. Check out the screenshots, get the full story on all the new features and grab a copy. If you like what we've done remember that Quanta sponsors two developers now so your donations really do make a difference. Read More

The Quanta team has been growing in volunteer developers, but the amount of work to make a world class killer application is daunting. Community support has enabled me to take the next step and sponsor another developer! As it happens we also have the opportunity to bring some killer features to our web development suite, but this will require some help from the community to help some additional developers. So while I want to bring some good news to the community I also need to ask for a vote of support too. Read More

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. What did Wil have to say to me about Quanta Plus? Was Wil happy to meet me? Follow the link dear reader and look for the pictures at the bottom. Read More

The Quanta team is pleased to announce the availability of Quanta 3. Quanta has been transforming from a basic HTML editor to an extremely competent and flexible tagging and scripting editor. Quanta 3 supports XHTML, XML dialects, XSLT and more. Since adding these DTDs takes only XML skills, the upcoming version 3.1 will feature even more languages. We will be making a language/dialect installer too. Inside 3.0 you'll find drag and drop templates, auto-completion for any installed language, now including PHP variables, and a structure tree that introduces modes. There's too much to list here so have a look at our full announcement. Quanta 3.1 will be released with KDE 3.1 too so it's coming very soon. Also there are more updates to our site including in depth explanations of how your donations impact the project. Also we have new links up to where our sponsor is selling Quanta Promotional items and donating all profits to the project. These are a lot of fun! We will also be introducing tutorials soon on using actions and building and using script dialogs with the upcoming Kommander. We want to extend our best to our users and we hope you find your requests fulfilled in your next download. Read More

The Quanta Plus development team is currently churning out more code than at any time in its history. So to keep you in the loop, the Quanta Plus site has been revamped, we've put up some new screenshots and implemented new site features such as a publicly accessible developer todo list. So what's new with Quanta? Well, we've released 3.0 PR2, so you're encouraged to check it out for yourself! You'll find auto-completion for HTML and tag attributes, PHP built-in function auto-completion, a revised document structure tree that recurses PHP structures and embedded HTML, and more. One exciting bit of work in progress is the ability to set different DTDs as well as offer tagging functionality in the form of pseudo DTDs to script languages. There are other fixes and enhancements and more on the way. We're also appealing to the community to help us flesh out the templates as well as other tagging and scripting languages. You only need to be a web developer to help here. Check out the full story (page2, page3, page4, page5) in our News and Articles section. Exciting things are happening. Read More