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Craig Drummond has released a new theme and "engine" for GTK programs that provides something many people have been looking for: a common look and feel for KDE and GNOME applications. While Red Hat's Blue Curve attempts to do something similar, Mr. Drummond's Geramik is the first theme implementation to provide smooth integration between environments. Read the full story at OfB.biz. Read More

The KDE Project is pleased to announce the availability of KDE 3.1 Beta 1 for your testing enjoyment. This release, which marks the second testing release of the KDE 3.1 branch, offers many improvements and bug fixes over KDE 3.0.x. New features include improved OpenPGP handling in KMail, handy tooltips that provide details of files in Konqueror quickly, and even new ways to be less productive thanks to four new games. Read More

KDE 3.0 Beta2 was announced today after a delay due to a variety of problems. This new release should provide a great opportunity for those interested in helping hunt down bugs or simply seeing where the future of KDE is headed. Read the full announcement for details. "One of the major improvements brought by KDE 3.0 over KDE 2.2 is the Javascript/DHTML support in Konqueror. The DOM 2 model, used to render an HTML page, is now mostly implemented, and changes to the DOM tree are handled much better. The Javascript bindings and support is almost complete, faster and more stable than in KDE 2. These changes result in a much-improved rendering of dynamic websites and is something users will immediately appreciate." Read More

It looks like Aaron J. Seigo is at it again with another interesting double issue of Kernel Cousin KDE. This issue covers the KDE Usability Project, speed enhancements, Konqi improvements, what's ahead for KDE 3.0, and more. Check it out here. Read More