IP Address Change for the Dot
Submitted by Dre on Fri, 2001/01/05 - 3:20amDot Categories:
Effective 12:00 p.m. EST January 5, 2001 the IP address of KDE Dot News is scheduled to change from 216.186.210.168 to 64.22.20.150.
theKompany Contributes Kamera Code to KDE CVS
Submitted by Dre on Fri, 2001/01/05 - 2:57amDot Categories:
Shawn Gordon wrote in with the good news that
theKompany.com has contributed the
source code for Kamera (previously
featured on the Dot),
a gPhoto2-based KIO slave for
digital cameras, to the
KDE CVS. He also
has some updates on Kamera developments. Read below to find out more.
People of KDE: Tink
Submitted by Inorog on Wed, 2001/01/03 - 7:30amDot Categories:
To start this new year in a joyous mood, I kindly asked Tink to grant the first interview of the year for our popular People behind KDE section, and she graciously accepted. At this time of celebration we would like to thank and pay tribute to those that, with their patience, support and understanding shown toward their dear ones, KDE contributors, make the KDE project an enjoyable activity and even a family :-). And thank you Tink for all the great work.
Do Interoperability Technologies Help or Hurt KDE Development?
Submitted by Dre on Sun, 2000/12/31 - 10:46pmDot Categories:
In a recent story at Kuro5hin.org, the author considers the implications of some recent developments announced on the dot -- namely, XParts and QGtkWidget. These projects permit non-KDE programs -- particularly Gtk applications -- to be used within KDE applications.
KDE Tutorials For Windows Converts?
Submitted by dhuff on Fri, 2000/12/29 - 10:17pmDot Categories:
A nice Ask Slashdot article entitled Gnome/KDE Tutorials For Windows Users? was recently posted on Slashdot. The article raises the interesting question: "...
People of KDE: Stefan Taferner
Submitted by Inorog on Mon, 2000/12/25 - 4:57amDot Categories:
In the last edition for the Year 2000 of the People Behind KDE series, Tink introduces us to Stefan Taferner, co-author of KMail and a main contributor to central technologies in the KDE project. The new, festive appearance of Tink's site greets us with the photo of a happy Konqi.
KDE and GNOME Interoperability Advances
Submitted by Dre on Sun, 2000/12/24 - 5:58amDot Categories:
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer today
announced the initial (experimental) release of
QGtkWidget and
QGtkApplication, "a class that makes it possible to embed
Gtk widgets in
Qt applications (in the
same process space, sharing the same event loop)."
Bernhard hopes that "this will be useful (primarily) in making KDE
Embedding external parts into KDE
Submitted by hporten on Thu, 2000/12/21 - 7:51pmDot Categories:
Up to now, the KPart component model was limited to embedding in-process parts. XParts is an extension written by Matthias Ettrich, Simon Hausmann and Lars Knoll to extend kparts and make it possible to embed out-of-process components. The approach chosen is toolkit independent, as can be seen by their choice to embed Mozilla. Read on for the full announcement and details.
Skanning with Kooka
Submitted by Dre on Thu, 2000/12/21 - 12:41pmDot Categories:
Torsten Rahn is ebullient about a
KDE program for scanning using
SANE called
Kooka.
"This is a real
nice productivity-app proving that it's easy to create extremely useful
apps for KDE 2 with relatively little work."
Details below.
Kooka
Kooka is a raster image scan program for the KDE2 system.
Qt 2.2.3 Released
Submitted by melter on Sun, 2000/12/17 - 2:11pmDot Categories:
Our friends at TrollTech have announced Qt 2.2.3. Qt 2.2.3 is a bugfix release. It keeps both forward and backward compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 2.2.2. For details, read the announcement and see the change summary.