Kastle 2003: Conference Report

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On Saturday, the KDE Contributors' Conference 2003 was officially opened. Two days full with talks in two tracks followed only being interrupted by meals, group photo and the obligatory social event on Saturday evening. On Monday there was a PGP keysigning, a press conference was held and in workshops further work was discussed.


KDE Developer's Corner: KAutoConfigDialog Tutorial

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For developers waiting for all of the new goodies that KDE 3.2 will offer, here is a sneak peek at KAutoConfigDialog, in the form of a new tutorial added to the KDE Developer's Corner. KAutoConfigDialog is a class that allows a developer to easily create a configuration dialog for an application. It automatically synchronizes GUI widget values with values in the configuration file by matching keys and widgets of the same name.


Kastle 2003: Arrival and KDE e.V. Membership Assembly

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Tomorrow is the first day of the KDE Developers' Conference 2003 (nicknamed "Kastle"), preceded today by the KDE e.V. membership meeting and followed by a week long hackfest until Sunday 31st. The Kastle event is hosted by KDE e.V., the Academic and University Center Nové Hrady and the Polytechnic University of Upper Austria in Hagenberg.


World's Largest Country Goes for KDE

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As reported at CNet Asia, China has announced a new policy mandating homegrown software solutions throughout government agencies. Redflag Linux, a Linux distribution backed by the Chinese government, seems to be well situated to to fill their OS needs. And along with Redflag Linux Desktop 3.2 comes none other than our favorite desktop.


Aaron J. Seigo: Adding WhatsThis Help To KDE Applications

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Adding WhatsThis Help To KDE Applications is the first installment in the Non-Programmer's Guide to Participating in KDE tutorial series. This series is designed to aid those who would like to participate in the KDE project, but for one reason or another can't do so by contributing source code. Fortunately, there are many tasks in KDE that don't involve writing code, and many of them don't require much investment in the way of time, either. Adding WhatsThis help in KDE is one such task.