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Code Skipper Qt Community Resource Site Launches

Tuesday, 7 June 2005  |  Aatamas
The Code Skipper, a new free Qt community resource site has been founded to provide our community of developers with a place to meet. This is a site where tutorials and articles that can be found on a range of Qt related subjects including a Programming with Qt tutorial, Building a Universal SQL Client and 3D Programming. The Code Skipper also contains a lot of code that can be easily integrated into your applications. Learn Qt tricks from there and share your own ideas. Read More

KDE Kiosk Desktop Hacks Article

Tuesday, 7 June 2005  |  Canllaith
Administrators and power users will be pleased to note that the text of the Locking down KDE with Kiosk Mode article as featured in newly published book Linux Desktop Hacks is available for reading online. Written by our very own Dot editor and KDE hacker Jonathan Riddell, this article takes you through basic Kiosk configuration using the Kiosk Admin Tool to lock down KDE. A must read for anyone from internet cafe administrators to those who have a KDE machine for children to use. Read More

Linux Magazine: Konqueroring Worlds

Tuesday, 7 June 2005  |  Dmolkentin
This month's issue of Linux Magazine features an article about working with Konqueror 3.4 (PDF). It presents the new features of this release and highlights the most interesting tricks of KDE's universal browser. Learn how to read man and info pages, how to customize Konqueror with view profiles and how to get the most out of KIO-Slaves. Read More

Announcing the New KDE-Artists.org Website

Sunday, 5 June 2005  |  Jtheobroma
KDE-Artists.org is a new KDE sister website created specifically for artists and coders to use for reference and direction in creating a high quality consistant user interface. It is also the home of Kollaboration, a new concept created by several people to give dreamers, artists, and coders a place to work together. Read More

KDE Commit Digest for June 3, 2005

Saturday, 4 June 2005  |  Dkite

In this week's KDE Commit Digest (all in one page):

Kexi supports CSV import. kttsd adds support for Cepstral voices. Kopete adds webcam receiving support for Yahoo, implements global identity for all the IM services and support for Skype is in progress. KTorrent adds search capability. Datakiosk adds prompts for SQL queries and search.

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Kexi 0.9 Stable Released

Saturday, 4 June 2005  |  Jstaniek
The Kexi Team have announced the availability of Kexi 0.9, codenamed "Shorthorn", the newest release of the integrated environment for managing data. Changes include official support for database forms, many improvements in handling server databases. For user convenience, Tabular Data View's behaviour is now very similar to Form Data View's behaviour. Data and project migration from existing data sources (SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL) is supported, and import of Microsoft Access database files (MDB) is available as optional plugin. The project delivered tens of overall improvements and hundreds of bug fixes. Read the full changelog and enjoy screenshots. Read More

Knoda Now Supports Firebird and Paradox

Saturday, 4 June 2005  |  Hknorr
Knoda is a database frontend for KDE. With its latest release, Knoda introduces support for Firebird and Paradox databases, now supporting all open source SQL servers. Besides managing tables and queries, Knoda also lets you create forms and reports, scriptable via Python. Read More

Open KHTML Info Page Launched

Saturday, 4 June 2005  |  Hporten

In an effort to open up their development process the developers of the Konqueror components KHTML, KJS and KSVG have launched the open Web portal KHTML.info.

By providing a central contact point and source of information in form of an open Wiki the developers want to promote their work and embrace users and developers from both Open Source as well as commercial environments.

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Qt 4 Designer Review

Saturday, 4 June 2005  |  Jthelin
The Qt 4 Resource Center is active again and now sports a brand new follow-up to the previous Designer introduction. Apparently, the Trolls have been working hard and have pretty much improved the tool in every area. Read More

Report on fisl 6.0

Saturday, 4 June 2005  |  Amantia
This year I was invited to attend the 6th edition of the International Free Software Forum in Porto Alegre/RS, Brazil, which I could attend with the help of the organizing committee and our generous sponsor Carlos Leonhard Woelz, the man behind the KDE Quality Team. The forum is the biggest open source/free software forum in Latin America, and it has more and more visitors each year. There were more than 3000 registered in advance participants and with well known names from the free software community like Eric S. Raymond, John "maddog" Hall, Randal L. Schwartz, Marcello Tosatti and others, including the LinuxChix. Read More