KDE in the News

KDE Articles from Linux Gazette

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Issue 104 of Linux Gazette is out, and features two articles aimed at new users: Using Windows Keyboard Media Buttons In Linux by Tom Brown discusses the use of KHotKeys, with a brief introduction to DCOP for full control of KDE; and my own article, Front and Back: KPGP and GPG, introduces KGPG, while also showing the corresponding com


LWN Editor Chooses KOrganizer

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When LWN editor Jonathan Corbet was forced to search for an alternative for his beloved "ical" calendar application he examined Evolution, KOrganizer, plan, gDeskCal and GNOME-PIM and found a clear winner: KOrganizer 3.2. He loves it as the only competitive replacement for ical and praises the top-quality job of its developers to create a highly configurable calendar manager with a minimum of unneeded baggage.


LinuxPlanet: Koming Back to KDE

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LinuxPlanet's Kurt Wall reviews the KDE 3.2 series. Before he was concerned that KDE's size and complexity would result in a desktop that was virtually unusable but is pleased and surprised to find that KDE 3.2 is significantly faster, easier to use, more consistently implemented, and easier on the eyes than any previous version and calls it a terrific product which shows that Linux is increasingly competitive on the desktop.


Evans Data Corp Survey Reveals Attitudes about KDE/Qt

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The release is entitled Nine Out Of Ten Linux Developers Refute Sco's Linux Lawsuit, but since I'm the one who wrote up the survey, I can tell you a bit more, although I am not allowed by Evans to "give away the store". But since I've just written about these particular issues for Computerworld (see next week's issue for the column), I can touch on them here.