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The Scribus Team is pleased to announce a technology preview of the next generation of Scribus Open Source Desktop Publishing. The aim for this release is to bring improvements and enhancements for both professionals and beginner users alike. 1.3.0 "La Liberté" improves Scribus' abilities in areas like performance, accessibility and workflow. With this release we also commence support for Scribus running natively on Windows and Mac OS X. Download Scribus from our 1.3.0 Downloads page or view some screenshots of the various versions. Read More

LWN did a survey of RSS aggregators featuring aKregator. *** Those clever Debian developers got KDE running on HURD. *** KDE Edu has a list of improvements in 3.5 and the first porting to KDE 4 docs. *** Customise Kicker within an inch of its life with the Kicker Hacks wiki page. *** As reported on Slashdot, KDE was demoed at a Microsoft roadshow. *** Everaldo released his Crystal Clear icon set while David Vignoni announced Oxygen. *** And finally, congratulations to the aforementioned David for getting hired by SUSE to work on KDE and to release dude Stephan Kulow for getting married. Read More

Break out those digital paint brushes! Revelinux Gear is sponsoring a contest this weekend over at KDE-Artists.org which challenges the artistically inclined to come up with visual concepts for Plasma's desktop buttons. These themable buttons will be used for all clickable file and action icons on the desktop, applets and panels. Being such a critical part of the user experience, they must be usable and stunningly beautiful. This contest aims to find out what they might look like. Winners will receive an autographed Plasma t-shirt and may also have their artwork appear in KDE 4.0. Read More

"Another exciting month in KDE development" is covered in the July edition of This Month in SVN. New features include recursive functions in KTurtle, asthetic enhancements in Kalzium, the eye-candy that is SuperKaramba and Konqueror's improved search box. If you spot a new feature that's been recently added to KDE make sure to tell Jes for inclusion in next month's article. Read More

Linux Magazine regularly makes all articles from older issues online available in PDF format. Recently added is a three-part tutorial about creating a newspaper with Scribus: after introducing the basics, you can learn how to layout page objects and it ends talking about templates and PDF. Scribus recently released version 1.2.2.1. Read More

Qt Quarterly is a paper-based newsletter exclusively available to Trolltech's Qt customers. As a courtesy and convenience, a selection of delayed articles are made available online in HTML format. Some of the more interesting articles are "Designing Qt-Style C++ APIs" by Matthias Ettrich, "Qt 4's New Style of Iterators" and "The QStyle API in Qt 4" both by Jasmin Blanchette. Read More

After successfully using KHTML and KJS as cornerstone technologies to build their much praised Safari web browser, Apple engineers have now made the first steps to adopt the next generation of KDE's web technology into their WebCore rendering engine. Apple developer Eric Seidel was proud to announce the introduction of experimental SVG support into WebCore: "Over the last few months I ported KDE's new DOM architecture 'KDOM' as well as their Scaleable Vector Graphics (SVG) implementation 'KSVG2' and render tree library 'KCanvas' to WebCore." Read More

The People Behind KDE interviews are back with a new series. First in the hot seat is aKademy organiser Antonio Larrosa. For the new series the original interviewer Tink has handed over management to KDE-NL. The People Behind KDE interviews take a look at the human side of KDE development by asking the important questions to our team of coders, artists, translators and everyone else who helps KDE. Read More

Some highlights from this week's KDE Commit-Digest (all in one page): KPDF can now open PS files. Kexi form designer supports drag and drop of database fields to create forms. Krita now has a pixelize filter, bumpmapping and watercolor painting. KRDC now has KWallet support. KRecipes improves printing. Also bug fixes and speedups in khtml. Read More