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In this week's KDE CVS-Digest (experimental layout): Auto logout support in Kiosk Tool. Hardware Abstraction Layer support in media kio-slave. Journal plugin for Kontact. KDevelop improves Ruby support. Bidi support from Webcore merged into khtml. Read More

KDE and its various applications have featured very well in the Linux Journal 2004 Readers' Choice Awards which are published in the November issue of the magazine. Most importantly, in the category of "Favorite Desktop Environment", KDE came in first followed by GNOME. The trend over recent years has shown KDE gaining more and more popularity over GNOME and this year KDE received two votes for every one that GNOME received. Read More

The "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3" book written by Trolltech software engineer Jasmin Blanchette and Trolltech's documentation manager Mark Summerfield, already featured by the dot, can now be downloaded in PDF format from the publisher's homepage in the "Downloads" section. Read More

During 13th and 14th October KDE-NL was present at LinuxWorld in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Bas Grolleman, a member of the Dutch KDE community wrote an account of the event. Here on the Dot is a translation of that account. Read More

The KOffice team is happy to bring you the fourth bugfix package that builds upon the previous 1.3.x versions. The main goals of this release are to fix the integer overflows in KWord's PDF import filter and to be able to compile KOffice again on KDE 3.1.5 and Qt 3.1.2. See the release notes and the list of changes. Read More

With the help of several other people I have begun writing automated test scripts for KDE. Located in kdenonbeta/kdetestscripts the current tests range from icon checking, finding memory leaks, outdated header names, slow code, and many more. The majority of the problems found by the scripts can be fixed with one line changes to the code. If you are someone who has wanted to play around in KDE's code, but don't know where to start this just might be the spot for you. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest (experimental layout): khtml fixes include table layout, background-position, min max-height and mangled html fixes. New KControl for Logitech mouse features. Kicker and taskbar optimizations and improvements. Xpdf security fixes. Also coverage of the Subversion discussions on kde-core-devel. Read More

Hot on the heals of the port of Gecko to Qt comes a pre-release of a port of KHTML to GTK+. Released components include KJS JavaScript interpreter, KHTML rendering engine, Qt porting layer, WebKit API for embedding and a reference browser for demonstrating the functionality of the other components. Their website explains that this was done by Nokia Research Center. They hope to collaborate with another project also porting KHTML to GTK, Gnome Webkit. Footnotes has the story. Read More

Many aspects of KDE performance depend on the underlying system or the user's configuration. The KDE Performance Tips document, which lists some of the performance related issues together with instructions how to avoid or fix the problems, has been updated with new tips. If you would like to add new tips to this page, update the ones already listed, or discuss them, please use the kde-optimize@kde.org mailing list. Note that this list is for working on optimizing KDE -- not for complaining. Read More