Solutions Linux is the main Linux Trade Show in France. The French KDE team was there like the precedent year promoting our favorite desktop.
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: The LDAP kio-slave is improved with TSL and SSL for secure connections and SASL for authentication. KDEPIM has a new certificate manager. Work proceeds apace on the khtml XML parser and xpath libraries. Plus a large number of bug fixes in Kopete.
After nearly one and half years of development Digikam 0.6 and its plugin package have been released. Digikam is a simple digital photo management application which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in albums which are automatically sorted chronologically.
Following the release of KDE 3.2, a friend and I have put together a series of articles promoting features of KDE that might change the way you work. We all know about the features of KDE that are promoted in press releases and demonstrated in screenshots, but the enormous power that lies "under the hood" of KDE in technologies like kioslaves, view profiles and kparts is often overlooked.
QtForum.org, the independent Qt community Website launched October 2003,
today announced the QtForum.org Developer Contest. The subject for the
contest is edutainment. This QtForum.org Developer Contest is sponsored
by Trolltech as a part of the company's support of the open source community.
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest:
KStars now has constellation lines.
Gwenview is now a KPart, for embedded use in Konqueror.
Plus many bug fixes and improvements in KMail and
Konqueror.
Perhaps the recent KDE and Qt releases made you want to contribute to KDE or to start your own Qt/KDE application? Then you may be interested in the new "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3" book, the first official Trolltech guide to Qt 3.2 programming.
As a followup to our previous Novell/SUSE article, we have further good news.
FedoraNEWS.org features a Quick Introduction to KDE 3.2 Installation and a positive Review of KDE 3.2: "My first impression is 'wow'." The author confesses that he hadn't the time to review every improvement and new application of KDE 3.2 yet but concludes "To sum it up, with so many enhancement
Two critical bugs crept into the just released version of KMail. One is related to POP filters and the other to spam filtering - both cause mail loss! They are fixed in CVS and patches are linked on the KDE 3.2 Info Page. The distributors have been asked to update their binary packages.