The latest edition of LWN has a nice editorial on PR in free software projects. Worth a read. "An often-heard sentiment among KDE developers is that they may have a better desktop, but that the project has taken a number of hits on the public relations front.
Three quick news items for the sake of completeness and because they were submitted: (1) Trolltech has released Qt 2.2.1, a bugfix release with minor enhancements. KDE 2.0 will be based on this one. (2) Version 0.0.2 of KDB, the database APIs being developed by theKompany, is out. There seem to be quite a few improvements for a 0.0.1 increment, including a new KControl module.
LinuxNews.com is running a story about Kugar, a reporting app we mentioned earlier.
Evan Leibovitch @ZDNet writes an entertaining piece summing up the recent KDE/GNOME events in "It's the apps, stupid". Stephen Shankland @CNET writes about the Qt GPL announcement in "Barrier lowered between Linux interfaces". Rick Lehrbaum @ZDNet reports on the same in "Good news for KDE".