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Known for his work on some of the new ioslaves in KDE. A man who thinks auto-shaving would be nice usability improvement of himself. We present you the latest People Behind KDE interview with ... Kévin Ottens.

Quanta is widely recognized as the most advanced free software web development environment. But a lot of people do not know that Quanta is a friendly editor for all SGML and XML documents (and therefore for docbook).

The K Desktop Environment was pleased to see its users recently at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Users were excited to learn about KDE 4.0, some of the hot new stuff in KDE 3.5, and thousands of Linux users got out of the house for a change!

Linux Mag has interviewed KDE developer Aaron Seigo about his sponsorship by Trolltech, how he got involved with KDE and upcoming KDE 4 goodies like Plasma Aaron is working on, usability and more.

Tuxmachines.org has published an interview with Roberto Cappuccio. Roberto is a developer of the Kat Desktop Search Environment which is an open source framework designed to allow KDE applications to index and retrieve files.

Trolltech has released the first bugfix release for Qt 4, the major release on which KDE 4 development is based on. Among the over 450 bug fixes and optimizations are numerous improvements to raster engine, X11 engine and QPainterPath, significantly speeding a range of drawing processes and introduction of top-level window transparency on X11.

After four months of development, the amaroK team has finished the new stable release of the popular KDE based audio player. amaroK 'Airborne' introduces the highly anticipated Wikipedia lookup feature. The cooperation between KDE and the Wikipedia project has already been the topic of an earlier article.

More KDE development news in the August edition of This Month in SVN. This issue packs in twice as much content as the previous one, with new features covered in Konqueror, Kicker, KDesktop, amaroK, Konversation and more: "This month has seen some drastic changes in SVN, with KDE4 development moved to trunk and KDE 3.5 gearing up for a stable release sometime after this year's KDE conference."

Werner Heuser from TuxMobil announced this year's winners of the TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005, which honors projects improving the Linux experience on mobile computers. Two of the five awarded projects have ties to KDE: KDE-Pim/Pi (Pi-Sync) and KWlanInfo, while another two use the Qt toolkit for their graphical interfaces. Congratulations to all those involved in the winning projects!

Kontact started a competition for a new logo earlier this month; where the winning logo will become the official logo at the next release. Now we found a sponsor to back the competition to give a Wacom tablet to the artist that created the winning logo.