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Klik is a system which creates self-contained packages of programmes installable over the web with a single click. In the article below Kurt Pfeifle discusses the potential uses of this technology for helping the non-coding contributors to KDE. He also looks at how the system works and the obvious security issues involved. Read More

After successfully using KHTML and KJS as cornerstone technologies to build their much praised Safari web browser, Apple engineers have now made the first steps to adopt the next generation of KDE's web technology into their WebCore rendering engine. Apple developer Eric Seidel was proud to announce the introduction of experimental SVG support into WebCore: "Over the last few months I ported KDE's new DOM architecture 'KDOM' as well as their Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) implementation 'KSVG2' and render tree library 'KCanvas' to WebCore." Read More

The organizing team for the KDE Community World Summit is asking for submissions of talks and presentations to the big KDE event in August. Deadline is 30th of May. Read More

KDE announces the immediate opening of registration for the KDE Community World Summit event. Taking place for 9 days (from 21st to 29th of August in Ludwigsburg, Germany) the organizing team is scheduling 5 different event modules. Read More

According to a recent news item at DesktopLinux.com, Walmart.com now offers a "1.3 Ghz AMD processor, host 128 MB of RAM, 30 GB of hard-drive space, ethernet interface, keyboard, mouse and speaker" PC for a mere $US 199.95. The system is "fully loaded with Linare's Linux, based on KDE" and "the system comes with access to Linare's 24-hour, seven-day-a-week technical support phone line." A more detailed description of the hardware is available on the website of Linare, the software is described here. The PCs are also available from Amazon.com. Earlier last year,
CNET News.com reported on the plans of the PC maker to offer an e-mail service as well. Read More

A few days ago Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick and Benjamin Meyer, a.k.a. icefox, succeeded in making Konqueror, the KDE swiss army knife, run natively on Mac OS X. Now they have an update: KOffice, Kate, Konsole, and a few other KDE applications work natively on Mac OS X. That means, they don't use an X server, like the GUI apps such as those ported from Unix and Linux to Mac OS X by the Fink project do, but they base on the native Qt/Mac library to run KDE in the native Aqua environment. They have solved all major porting problems, with only a few rough edges left to polish. Congratulations on this milestone achievement! Read More

ITBusiness.ca has an interesting success story about how LinuxMagic switched FitnessWorld to Linux and KDE. Although the article does not mention KDE, we know they are using KDE thanks to this KDE Success Story that was submitted to KDE::Enterprise. LinuxMagic is one the sponsors of the KDE for the Enterprise initiative that was recently launched by KDE and Debian developers. If you too have a KDE Success Story to share with the world you can submit it via the KDE::Enterprise website. Read More

Want to run Konqi from a Windows XP desktop? Want to use KDE's marvellous Quanta Plus Web editor from inside Windows? Not that you particularly like XP -- it's just that you have no choice. Well, with NX now you can. I've compiled some background info on how to achieve this, including some nice and revealing screenshots: Konqi on WinXP 1, Konqi on WinXP 2, Quanta on WinXP, KDE Session on WinXP. Read More

UltraSPARC 60 with Sun Solaris and Apple iBook G4 PowerPC with Mac OS X -- these are amongst the diverse hardware and OS platforms on which KDE will be presenting its latest achievements to the world this week in Karlsruhe, Germany. Both installations will be running CUPS, to demonstrate how KDE Print can provide a great environment for an enterprise printing solution across different platforms. Read More