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This week we heard about the death of KDE contributor Claire Lotion. People within the KDE Community were shocked and upset by this tragedy.

Claire was a vibrant person with strong ideals. She will be remembered for pursuing these ideals, and as a good friend and colleague. She also thought a lot about how KDE as an open source community could find connections to the real business world. Her energy, fresh look at things, positive mindset and intense commitment inspired many people. So did her dancing.

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Trolltech has announced the release of Qt 2.3.0, the much-anticipated version of Qt that supports anti-aliased fonts (assuming your X server is up-to-date). "KDE 2.1 automatically takes advantage of Qt's support of anti-aliased fonts. The result is one of the nicest looking user interfaces in the world." Along with anti-aliasing, Qt 2.3.0 offers True Type and Type 1 font support for printing, and a few other improvements. The release was accompanied by an amusing soundtrack. Finally, of note to those of you struggling with fonts, is the Qt font HOWTO, made available by Lars Knoll. Read More

This week on The People Behind KDE, our beloved Tink interviews KDE perfectionist Dirk Mueller, one of the people you can thank for how well Konqueror, and KDE in general, work these days. "Right now I'm mainly working on the Konqueror HTML engine of KDE 2.x, it's very interesting and challenging work so I spend most of my time on this. In general I like improving KDE overall, fixing performance and usability issues or bugs. I try to keep an eye on the development and take a look at whatever is interesting to me at the moment. Especially, I like working on the nasty little details that make things perfect, hence my addiction to KHTML." Read More