Quanta is widely recognized as the
most advanced free software web development environment. But a lot of people do
not know that Quanta is a friendly editor for all SGML and XML documents (and
therefore for docbook).
The KDE online documentation site docs.kde.org has gotten a new back- and frontend addressing experiences
made over the last few years. It now allows for faster and easier navigation through
the languages and branches. The User Guide and the FAQ are
featured more prominently and in the chosen language if already
Jes Hall is a new contributor to KDE's documentation team. In the interview below she talks about how she joined the team, how KDE's documentation is made, how you can help them and how they can help KDE's coders. She also reveals the 5 finest examples of documentation in KDE.
Canllaith is a regular helper on #kde
Please tell us about yourself and your role in KDE.
IBM has published a guide to help enterprises migrate their systems from Windows to Linux. It pays a special attention to the users who want to migrate from MS Office to equivalent Linux-based products. The guide also covers the use of Kiosk tool to limit the configurability of the KDE desktop and contains an appendix about desktop automation and scripting talking about KJSEmbed, DCOP, Kommander and other tools.
The Quality Team and Docs Team are pleased to announce the results of the recent Docs Competition. The judges were impressed with a wide range of "very high quality" submissions, all of which can be found here.
If you haven't got your entry in for the documentation competition yet, it's
time to start! The deadline for entries is this Sunday (October 3rd). Remember, just write
one page for the new User Guide, in plain text, and send it to
[email protected]. We've already received four high quality entries covering kdebugdialog, launching programs, a konsole
If you missed out on the writing
competition at aKademy, now is your chance to make up for it. The KDE
Quality and Documentation teams have got together to offer some great
O'Reilly prizes for writing documentation. All you have to do to enter is
write a page for the new KDE User
Guide within two weeks and we'll send you a prize! Read on for the full
details.
Rinse de Vries, the coordinator of
the dutch KDE translation group, reported about a
new translation effort they started. Inspired by
the project KDE op Platt
they revitalised the idea of translating KDE to Frisian. Frisian
is the second official language spoken in The Netherlands by almost 350.000 people
Marcel Gagne, very famous for his "Cooking with Linux"
columns in Linux Journal, has informed us about his