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Kommander is a powerful but easy to learn development environment. "Graphical Scripting with Kommander" takes us through the creation of a graphical interface for Konstruct, a tool for downloading, configuring and installing KDE from source packages. The article also lists some of the exciting developments coming to Kommander in the near future. This is the second of three separate Kommander tutorials, the first of which can be found here. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest (experimental layout): Krita (screenshots) implements pasting, layers and autogradient. The media kioslave now handles cameras. KGeography adds more maps. Special year end retrospective of the KDE development effort. Read More

If you are looking for an easy to use program to listen to your favorite CDs then you should try KsCD. KsCD comes with KDE and it will most likely be installed by default. You can find it in the Kicker menu under 'Multimedia'. Life does not get much easier than this! Read the full article (with screenshots) at TUX Magazine for more details. Read More

Kommander is a tool for rapid application development and the easiest way to make applications in KDE. "A Kommander crash course" is a two part tutorial for Kommander which takes us through creating a simple application for changing your KDE wallpaper. Look out for more Kommander tutorials coming in the next couple of weeks. Read More

The fourth issue of "KDevelop TechNotes" is out. This issue describes code navigation in the KDevelop IDE. Read on to learn about the most effective ways to navigate your code with keyboard shortcuts, context menus and "Quick Open..." wizards. The article also gives some useful information about toolview management with keyboard and also describes code navigation features available only to C++ developers. Read More

Trolltech has released the first Beta version of the upcoming Qt 4.0. You can download it from ftp.trolltech.com or from one of its mirrors. An updated online Qt Reference Documentation is also available. The final Qt 4.0 is expected to be released in late first quarter of 2005. Read More

Xandros Desktop OS 3 which is heavily based on KDE 3.3 has been announced. *** The installable Live CD Knoppix has been upraded to KDE 3.3.1 in its version 3.7. *** The installable and upgradable Live CD PCLinuxOS Preview 8 includes KDE 3.3.2 and OpenOffice.org/KDE 1.1.3. *** Another installable and upgradable Live CD release is ProMEPIS 2005 Beta 2 with KDE 3.3.1. **** The next Debian release "Sarge" will contain KDE 3.3. *** Rumors say that a KDE Edition of Ubuntu is progressing and isn't too far from being released. Read More

The KDE Accessibility team is in the process of integrating speech synthesis into KDE. Not only does this mean better support for visually-impaired and speech-impaired users, but the new features should also prove for a fun desktop experience overall. An important milestone has been reached with the recent release of the KDE Text-to-Speech System (ktts). If you wish to learn more about speech synthesis support in KDE, you can also read an extensive interview with four developers at the KDE Accessibility Website. Read More

Scott Wheeler and Sirtaj Singh Kang with much appreciated help from Kabir Husain represented KDE at this year's Linux Bangalore, India's largest Linux and Open Source event. Many of the 2800 visitors stopped by the KDE booth where KDE 3.3, a Knoppix desktop and KDE CVS (on Scott's laptop) were demonstrated or dropped into one of the two talks. Read More