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One of the "missing LinuxTag stories" should be telling about the FreeNX presentation done by Fabian Franz and Kurt Pfeifle in the biggest hall with 500 visitors present. The talk culminated in the official release of FreeNX-0.4.1 (download here). Read More

At the recent European X.Org Developers Meeting KDE developer and Trolltech employee Zack Rusin presented a new acceleration architecture named Exa (eyecandy X architecture) for X.org. Being based on KAA (KDrive acceleration architecture) it's designed to be an alternative to the currently used XAA (XFree86 acceleration architecture) with better acceleration of XRender which is used by composite managers for desktop eyecandy effects. The next X.org release which is expected to contain Exa is planned to be released in September. Read More

Trolltech has released Qt 4.0 both under commercial and GPL licenses for X11, Mac OS X and MS Windows. It is the first time that a MS Windows GPL edition is available. To celebrate the release Trolltech employees have created a song and a music video (Bittorrent download, Ogg Theora version). Read the Qt 4 Overview and the online Qt Reference Documentation for more information. You can download Qt from ftp.trolltech.com or from one of its mirrors. Work on KDE 4 has already started with making a development branch of KDE compile and run with Qt 4. Read More

On 27 June, 2005 at 9:30 pm CST, Lobby4Linux will host a Live Chat with two developers of KMyMoney. This personal finance application is quickly becoming the “Quicken Killer” for Linux. The upcoming KMyMoney 0.8 release will introduce investment support, multi currency support, a report generator, file import of GnuCash and OFX files, and a plugin-interface. Read More

The KDE online documentation site docs.kde.org has gotten a new back- and frontend addressing experiences made over the last few years. It now allows for faster and easier navigation through the languages and branches. The User Guide and the FAQ are featured more prominently and in the chosen language if already translated. The excellent search functionality has gotten a better place on the front page. Many things have happened under the hood, which allow for easier maintenance and additions over the next months, especially PDF generation. Read More

After reviewing the list of submissions, Google has released this morning the final list of Summer of Code proposals they have accepted. Out of 8000+ entries, 410 were selected and KDE proponents were awarded 24 out of those which equals $120,000 of support for KDE technology. The KDE Project congratulates all those who got accepted and calls upon those who didn't to join the project anyways. KDE will certainly benefit from this experience, and wishes all the participants good luck. Stay tuned for more information later, including the accepted project list. Read More

The KCall team is happy to announce its first public beta release, which was finished during LinuxTag 2005. The telephony application KCall integrates with Kontact and makes use of KDE's central addressbook (screenshots). This enables KCall to access phone numbers stored in the groupware servers supported by Kontact. The currently supported telephony backend is kphone's SIP implementation, a VoIP softphone. Other backends will be provided through the planned OpenTAPI framework. Read More

Today the KDE project previewed a new technology that allows arbitrary KPart-based KDE applications to be embedded into Mozilla's FireFox. Thus, KDE applications can soon be used to show rich content such as PDF files using KPDF or display multimedia files with KMPlayer or Kaffeine. Read More

Today Jimmy Wales, chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation, announced the beginning of a cooperation between Wikimedia and the KDE project at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany. As the first applications, like the media player amaroK, start to integrate Wikipedia content the idea is to create a webservice API to access the information from Wikimedia projects such as Wikipedia or Wiktionary. There are also plans for a KDE API. Read More