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The GStreamer developers have just released version 0.10 of the GStreamer multimedia framework into the wild, and their coders' fingers will never be the same. "Thread-safety, RTP/VoIP support, automatic registry maintenance, twice the performance, and a whole lot more...the best just got better. A highly flexible, cross-platform, and GUI-independent multimedia framework, GStreamer takes your media, chews it up, and spits it out into aural and visual paradise. Especially targeted at GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems, the GStreamer team has been working with certain members of the KDE community for a long time. With this release we have a stable, extendable and robust multimedia solution." In conjunction with KDE MM, GStreamer is one of the possible multimedia frameworks that will be available for KDE 4. Read More

Sebastian Kügler has written a new PyQt tutorial. Python is the perfect language to start learning programming with and this tutorial takes you through making a basic Qt based program. He also shows how pyuic from PyKDE Extensions makes it possible to use Qt Designer with Python. Some wise words to new programmers from the tutorial, "use the examples and try to change things, play around with them, this is the best way to get comfortable". Read More

We know him as a Romanian developer for Quanta and contributor to several other KDE projects. His cat began to catch birds some time ago and he calls himself a local-patriot. His wife may not be into KDE coding but he would make sure she was if he had to be stuck on an island with a KDE developer. Tonight's People Behind KDE interview is with András Mantia. Read More

In its current issue, TUX Magazine interviews KDE core developer Daniel Molkentin. Daniel talks about the features in the just-released KDE 3.5 and explains the current plans and ongoing efforts for the next major KDE release, KDE 4.0. In the same issue, KDE's Jess Hall explains how Klik makes trying and using new applications easy. Read More

The KDE Project is happy to announce a new major release of the award-winning K Desktop Environment. Many features have been added or refined, making KDE 3.5 the most complete, stable and integrated free desktop environment available. For a quick look at some of the new features see the visual guide to KDE 3.5. Packages are available now for ArchLinux, Kubuntu, Slackware and SuSE or try Konstruct to build it yourself. Read More

South African news site Tectonic is reporting how KDE terminals are Giving South African Farmers a Leg-up. Limpopo's Digital Doorways project are installing computers running KDE in rural community centres to assist farmers. KDE language modules have been added for isiZulu, isiXhosa, tshiVenda, Setswana, and Afrikaans. The government's IT manager said "People's perception of open source is that everything is command-based, text-based. Our pilot projects are meant to address that perception." Read More

The next annual central meeting of the KDE community, aKademy 2006, is looking for a location. The event consists of the general assembly of the KDE e.V., a KDE developer conference and a multi-day hacking session. The main goal of the event will be to shape the upcoming new major step of the K Desktop Environment, KDE 4. If you are interested in hosting this large and exciting free software event, please consider to submit a proposal to the board of the KDE e.V. which will act as a co-host. Read More

Core KDE developer George Staikos recently hosted a meeting of the security developers from the leading web browsers. The aim was to come up with future plans to combat the security risks posed by phishing, ageing encryption ciphers and inconsistent SSL Certificate practise. Read on for George's report of the plans that will become part of KDE 4's Konqueror and future versions of other web browsers. Read More

This man maintains KDE's text editor Kate and the associated KTextEditor interface. He also keeps three cats and disappears from his girlfriend for a week each year in the name of KDE. The star of tonight's People Behind KDE interview is Christoph Cullmann. Read More

Are you an amaroK script developer or are you developing a KDE application that should not be in KDE's Subversion for various reasons? We have the solution. The amaroK project is proud to announce the amaroK Subversion server, a service for amaroK script developers, launched as a thank you gesture to all the supporters who donated to the project during its fundraiser. We hope this will encourage the awesome amaroK community in their extremely valuable amaroK script writing. Read More