The KDE Desktop Environment project is pleased to announce the launch of KDE Dot News, a news and discussion site dedicated to KDE and supported by the KDE community. KDE Dot News is the response to a large and growing demand for a KDE-specific news site.

Surfing the official KDE website, I found the budding KDE Games Center where you can find a list of games based on KDE (and not only those included in KDE). There are also several links to developer resources such as AI, network programming,...
If you develop a game for KDE, then please contact Martin Heni with the info.

Phil Thompson announced updated Python bindings for Qt 2.2.0, including pyuic which compiles Qt Designer files to PyQt code, and even Windows support. The bindings for KDE1 have been updated as well, although a port to KDE2 is still in the works. Project website here.

The second of the on going interview of the people behind KDE is out. This interview is with Lauri Watts of the documentation team.

The final beta preview of KDE 2, code named Kandidat, has been announced and is available for download(remember there are several ftp mirrors). It is now based on the final Qt 2.2 and and won't work with a Qt 2.2 beta.

LinuxToday is running an article on recent KDE/Qt events. The author rants a little about licensing, marvels about what KDE has accomplished so far but then worries that the Linux desktop is becoming too much like Windows. Yup. It's all here.

theKompany.com have announced KDB, an API for browsing and manipulating databases. KDB is LGPL, modular and even includes an I/O slave that enables SQL capabilities in Konqueror. KDB will be used as the backend for Rekall, a light weight personal DBMS system ala MS Access.
More details here.

Debian Weekly News confirms it: "KDE packages are pouring into Debian. All of the core of KDE is already present in unstable, and more packages are sure to follow. This unexpected turn of events is due to a change in the license of Qt 2.2 -- Troll Tech released it dual-licensed under the GPL -- the KDE licensing issue is finally resolved." They have a lot of catching up to do if the ~700 KDE apps catalogued by apps.kde.com are any indication.

In this first edition of "The People Behind KDE", we get to learn a little more about KDE founder Matthias Ettrich.

Readers have been writing in that ZDNet is currently reporting on a rumoured KDE League that will go head-to-head with the GNOME Foundation. LinuxToday has picked up the story, including a link to a statement by Kurt Granroth.