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For those of you who do not understand how to use KimDaBa, there is now no reason not to use it. KimDaBa is the first KDE application to offer small flash videos with voice-overs describing how to use it. See the tutorials at KimDaBa's video page or read on below for Jesper's description of how and why to make video tutorials of applications. Read More

The upcoming Open Source Desktop Workshop in San Deigo is fast approaching. Slides are being prepared, tutorials developed and registration is filling up fast. OSNews points to an interview with Aaron Seigo by Wade Olsen about expectations for the upcoming inaugural event. Find out if KDE will be visiting any more world renowned beaches in the months ahead. Read More

In his reply to the Massachusetts decision to use only documents in OpenDocument format, the Microsoft manager Alan Yates writes: (paraphrased) Star Office, Open Office, KOffice and IBM Workplace are all derivatives of the same codebase. Thus there is only one program that supports Open Document, and that is illegal. This is, of course, not true, and here is an open letter written by KOffice Marketing Coordinator Inge Wallin on behalf of the KOffice team which clarifies these facts. Read More

Recent weeks have seen a lot of cooperative activity between the KDE Accessibility Team and various other Free Software accessibility teams. The Free Standards Group Accessibility Workgroup, KDE Accessibility and GNOME Accessibility teams have now released a joint statement describing some of this cooperation. "We believe users who are persons with disabilities should be empowered to choose technologies from any and all environments which provide accessibility just as other desktop users today routinely use a mix of technologies from different desktop environments. Our goal is seamless interoperability." Read More

The testing period for the next major KDE release has begun with the release of KDE 3.5 Beta 1, codenamed Kanzler. This will be the last major release in the KDE 3 series so make sure it turns into the best one by downloading and testing today. The 3.5 Beta 1 information page gives the download link as well as an important warning on using Qt 3.3.5. Packages are currently available for Kubuntu or you can use Konstruct to guide you through the compile. Read More

Klik is a system which creates self-contained packages of programmes installable over the web with a single click. In the article below Kurt Pfeifle discusses the potential uses of this technology for helping the non-coding contributors to KDE. He also looks at how the system works and the obvious security issues involved. Read More

Last night KDE developer Aaron Seigo was interviewed on the live weekly Podcast The Linux Link Tech Show. Episode 101 is now available for download. Topics discussed include what happened at KDE's recent aKademy conference, training new developers through Open Source Desktop Workshops, the future of the desktop with SuperKaramba & Plasma and the problems of moving from proprietary to free software. Start 29 minutes in to hear an hour of Aaron. Read More

The Qt 4 Resource Centre has tutorials for A Zoomable Picture Viewer and Spying on Signals. *** This KDE 3.5 Alpha review shows us some new features coming soon. *** Alternative KDE file manager Krusader found themselves new web hosting. *** Linux.com introduces us to Kontact. *** Real-time 3D strategy game Boson made a new release with extra smooth graphics and multiplayer support. *** Video player Kaffeine added a GStreamer part in their recent 0.7 release. *** Finally congratulations to Stephan Binner who had to leave aKademy early to start a job packaging KDE for SuSE. Read More

He has fans all over the world. Every week he provides us with news from the latest and greatest straight out of the KDE SVN tree. This time the People Behind KDE presents you Derek Kite, the man behind the KDE Commit Digest. Read More

The dust has yet to settle after the XFree86->X.org migration and the future of the defacto Linux windowing system is still unclear. Jon Smirl has written an extremely interesting article describing the current problems of the X.org server and overviews related projects. Read More