The KOrganizer website is featuring a new workshop series. The first awesome document is chockful of screenshots and useful tips on how to use group scheduling.
The latest issue of Kernel Cousin KDE is out.
Take these two tutorials, if you want to learn how to use KParts components in KDE. The first in the series, Creating KParts components Part 1, covers read-only, read-write parts and network transparency.
We run into the best of luck at KDE Dot News. This time the air-conditioner in our server room died, resulting in a temperature of 52 degrees Celcius and a core meltdown. Since we had also been suffering from limited bandwidth for a while now -- since the week of the KDE3 release when we managed to kill our host's pipe -- we decided to take this opportunity to move to a new hosting solution. Happily, we were awash with wonderful offers for help and support of all kinds from the community.
After a bit of a hiatus, Boson (screenshots), the Real Time Stragegy game for KDE, is back in swing. Since development restarted in late 2001, the game has been completely rewritten and ported to libkdegames. As a result of the recent development, Boson 0.6 has been released. The full announcement is below.
Apple has released the source to
JavaScriptCore, a JavaScript framework based on kjs. It will be used by various applications in upcoming Mac OS X releases. "JavaScriptCore is a private API which may be used by future Mac OS X
applications such as Sherlock, and is provided as Open Source as part
of our partnership with the KDE community. JavaScriptCore will be used
A full report by Daniel Molkentin follows. LinuxTag 2002 is over, but the memories will remain: about 40 KDE developers
gathered in Karlsruhe, Germany to represent the project and to socialize
with each other. Several developers have placed their pictures of the event
on-line. Take a look at 72
Laurent Rathle wrote in to plug the Kde France site where French speakers can enjoy forums, news, translations of KDE Dot News items as well as KC KDE issues, amongst other resources. Alongst with KDE.org/fr/, KDE French users should be well catered for.
This week in KC KDE, you can read all about the Klingon invasion, CVS Kung-Fu and various Mime Type news. If you're lucky you can enjoy the French, German, and Spanish translations as well.
After a good year of public existence, KPovModeler 0.2 is released.
KPovModeler is a full-featured graphical modeler and composer for creating POV-Ray(TM) scenes under KDE 3. It now supports almost the full gamut of POV-Ray 3.1 functionality -- see these nice screenshots. KPovModeler is a new member of the KDE Graphics package, but we are still looking for a documentation writer to join the project.