KDE-CVS-Digest for February 21, 2003
Submitted by dkite on Sat, 2003/02/22 - 12:34amDot Categories:
KOffice Icon Contest
Submitted by aseigo on Thu, 2003/02/20 - 9:15pmDot Categories:
The KOffice developers have been making outstanding progress towards their goal of creating a useful, powerful and reliable KDE office suite. But whereas the technology
Desktop Configurability: Is More Better?
Submitted by Dre on Thu, 2003/02/20 - 8:53amDot Categories:
One of the oft-recurring debates on KDE mailing lists is, how configurable should
the KDE desktop be? With recent indications that GNOME seems to be heading
in the "less is better" direction, independent KDE developer
Mosfet has written an editorial (related article)
urging why KDE should not follow suit. Anyone else have an opinion on this?
<grin>
LinuxPlanet: KDE 3.1 Shines on Low End Hardware
Submitted by Dre on Wed, 2003/02/19 - 9:13amDot Categories:
In a recent article featured on LinuxPlanet, senior technology consultant Rob Reilly ran KDE 3.1 through its paces using a low-end 133MHz PC with 128 MB RAM. According to the story, despite a number of new features and aesthetic
improvements, KDE 3.1 reverses the general desktop trend of increased
resource usage:
KDE at Paris Solutions Linux 2003
Submitted by cmiramon on Mon, 2003/02/17 - 12:35amDot Categories:
KDE-France held a booth at the Solutions Linux 2003 show in Paris recently. For an account of our activities as well as some pictures, be sure to check out our report.
KDE-CVS-Digest for February 14, 2003
Submitted by dkite on Sat, 2003/02/15 - 8:41pmDot Categories:
This week, in the latest KDE-CVS-Digest read about the many improvements in the development tools. In KDevelop,
work continues on code completion and new code templates.
Quanta gets ktips and finishing polishes.
Ammai.com: Review of Knoppix and KDE 3.1
Submitted by Datschge on Wed, 2003/02/12 - 11:18pmDot Categories:
After the public release of KDE 3.1 it was only a matter of time to see a Knoppix based Live CD using this version. The KDE Promo team worked on several custom versions, one of which was then used at Solutions Linux in Paris.
KDE-Forum.org and KDE-Look.org Hosting Updates
Submitted by numanee on Wed, 2003/02/12 - 10:09amDot Categories:
We're pleased to note that KDE-Forum.org is now back online after a rocky start. A big thanks goes out to Pierre-Emmanuel Muller and Cyberbrain who are now hosting this site, and of course to zenok, fan of KDE and creator of KDE-Forum.org for web-based KDE-related discussions.
KDE 3.1: eWeek Review, More RPMs
Submitted by Dre on Tue, 2003/02/11 - 12:08pmDot Categories:
eWeek's
Jason Brooks has
tested and
reviewed some
new features of
KDE 3.1,
which he calls
"Linux's best hope for becoming a viable desktop
Kopete Celebrates First Anniversary, Improves Usability
Submitted by Dre on Mon, 2003/02/10 - 2:34pmDot Categories:
The Kopete Project celebrated its
first anniversary yesterday by
announcing
the release of Kopete 0.6. Kopete is KDE's all-purpose, modular and
extensible chat client, which currently supports the MSN Messenger, ICQ,
AIM OSCAR, Jabber and IRC protocols. A sampling of the great new features
includes sophisticated (HTML) text rendering, signing / encrypting chats