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KConfig XT is an increasingly commonly used technology in KDE programmes. KDE Dot News talked to creator Cornelius Schumacher (also recently interviewed on KDE PIM) to find out the advantages of KConfig XT over plain old KConfig. Read on for the full interview -- and if you think your programme might benefit from KConfig XT, Zack's tutorial is a good place to start. Read More

The final round of voting in the 2005 Linux Journal Readers' Choice awards has begun. The final ballot is based on the results of two previous rounds of open voting, and mostly the top two vote-getters in each category have made it to the final ballot. Eight KDE-related projects are still in the competition. The deadline for voting is July 28, the winners will be announced in the November 2005 issue of the magazine. Read More

As mentioned on the official webpage of the City of Vienna: a customized version of Debian with KDE, dubbed "Wienux" was chosen as the official alternative to MS Windows for the 18,000 PCs of the city. It is up to the individual workers to choose if they prefer a KDE Desktop or a Microsoft based system. The officials expect that about 4,800 machines can run KDE in the short term. Additionally, K3b is the official burning application of choice for "Wienux". Read More

LugRadio is a fortnightly podcast covering everything Open Source and last weekend they held the first community run Linux exhibition in England. Jonathan Riddell, lead developer of Kubuntu, and Ben Lamb were there to demo the newly released KOffice 1.4, Kubuntu and the upcoming features of KDE 3.5. Jonathan gave a talk about Kubuntu development and KDE 4. Read More

Last weekend KDE exhibited at Le Droit D'auteur et Vous (Copyrights and You) a one day event in Montréal. KDE developers were there showing off KDE 3.4.1, the latest development version and handing out Kubuntu CDs. There were lots of questions for the exhibitors and lots of praise for KDE too. Read the full report below. Read More

The KDE-Artists website is featuring an interview with Ryan Nickell, one of the current authors of SuperKaramba and Smooth Blend. He talks about his baby SuperKaramba, the KDE community website KDE-look.org, Plasma, KDE 4 and he even answers some personal questions. Enjoy the interview! Read More

The KDE Project and Google announce the 24 KDE projects selected for the "Summer of Code" project. The lucky students and the KDE e.V. will receive a total of $120,000 if they can complete their projects in the allotted two months. Read More

For the German speakers in the KDE community, last night Ellen Reitmayr, of OpenUsability.org, who was involved in the recently covered KDE PIM Usability Review was a guest for the most recent episode of the Chaos Computer Club's Chaos Radio for which the topic was user interfaces. Roughly 110 minutes in KDE developer Daniel Molkentin also called. Ellen was a guest for the entire duration of the somewhat, well, chaotic three hour program. Read More

As LinuxTag 2005 is over, many KDE contributors went home to implement ideas that were discussed during the event. In case you got lost among all of the announcements, here's an easy-to-click-through list of new features. Before reading, you might want to have a look at the pictures, and there are now more added daily to the community photo list. Read More