I'm in the process of improving the Kasbar taskbar replacement, and as there
seems to be a fair degree of interest I thought I'd outline what I've done so
far and my plans. My first aim (which I have nearly achieved) was to ensure
that Kasbar had all the features of the standard taskbar, but I have quite a
bit more in mind...
Our interviewer-in-chief, Tink, comes back this week with her entertaining suite of questions, this time answered by Sandy Meier, member of the KDevelop creators team. Go learn about Sandy's human profile and don't forget to visit his project's web page. Who knows, maybe you decide you'd like to become part of that wonderful team.
KDE 2.0 Development, a new book being published under the
Open Publication License is now available online, in full, for free, at
http://kde20development.andamooka.org/.
Matthias Elter wrote to the KDE core devel mailing list about his progress in getting KDE to play nice with Window Maker and Afterstep "applets", and included some eyecandy to boot. His message follows below.
The German Linux solution provider
Based on feedback we've received in the last week we have made some changes to
APPS.KDE.com. Most significantly, we have
introduced internal frames to replace framesets. This approach works great with Konqueror and IE, but works optimally only with JavaScript enabled; Netscape 4.x does not support internal frames.
We have also added the ability to browse categories and conduct searches
It's a Qt-extension widget set for MDI that is an alternative to QWorkspace. Compared to QWorkspace, your application is configurable in several modes - MDI like QWorkspace and Unix-like with all windows as toplevel. You can compile QextMDI as a KDE2 extension library, it then bases on KMainWindow and kdeui.so. You can decorate the MDI views with Win9x, KDE1 and default-KDE2 windowmanager style.
The second public beta of Kivio is now available from theKompany.com. Most major distributions are available and so is the source. License is now officially GPL.
theKompany.com is proud to announce the second beta release of Kivio - our premiere flowcharting tool.
This week, in The People Behind
KDE, Tink interviews Rik Hemsley, who is actively working on Empath, a
groupware project much like Outlook for the KDE PIM project. In fact, his claim to fame is that "people seem to know me as the Empath man, but it's not even released yet."
