$199 KDE PC available from Walmart

According to a recent news item at DesktopLinux.com, Walmart.com now offers a "1.3 Ghz AMD processor, host 128 MB of RAM, 30 GB of hard-drive space, ethernet interface, keyboard, mouse and speaker" PC for a mere $US 199.95. The system is "fully loaded with Linare's Linux, based on KDE" and "the system comes with access to Linare's 24-hour, seven-day-a-week technical support phone line."
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GTK+ Apps Get Free Reign on KDE Technology

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Integration of GTK+ applications in KDE has taken another leap forward. This has historically been a bit of a problem; the fact that Qt and GTK+ rely on different event loops was making it impossible to, for example, use dialogs from one toolkit while building the GUI in another. QtGTK is a library which integrates the Qt event loop in the Glib event loop. This makes it possible to freely use KDE dialogs, DCOP, KDE IO and other KDE technology in any GTK+ application just like they would be native. From now on, every GTK+ application can easily integrate with KDE.


GTK-Qt Theme Engine Does Cross-Desktop Styling

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The GTK-Qt theme engine is a nifty hack for GTK+ applications that uses the currently selected KDE/Qt style to do its drawing in a very similar fashion to the recently announced KDE Native Widget Framework for OpenOffice.org. Basically, what this means is that it will make your GTK apps look just like KDE/Qt ones and hence integrate better into your desktop (screenshot).


New KDE Application Database Online

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Thanks to the hard work of Frank Karlitschek during the holiday season, we are proud to welcome
KDE-Apps.org amongst our midsts. KDE-Apps.org is the new online database for KDE applications. Since the site is still very new, Frank would like to hear your suggestions for improvements. The database is also still a bit empty but you can change that by
submitting