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Some time ago KDE-Look.org launched an icon contest where artists could submit an icon to be used for KPDF in the next KDE version. It seems the contest has now been prolonged. Curious about this icon contest I contacted the initiator Albert Astals Cid and some jury members to ask them some questions. Read More

This week Linux World Expo comes to the Netherlands where KDE-NL will showcase the enterprise features of the KDE desktop. The event wil take place at Jaarbeurs Utrecht and can be easily reached by train and car. Our laptops with KDE are kindly sponsored by IT provider KovoKs. Jeroen Baten will give a talk about KDE, the coporate desktop. Entrance to this event is free when you register in advance. Please come and visit us at booth 8F095. We hope to see you there! Read More

KDE will be present at Berlinux 2004 which takes place on 22nd and 23rd October in Berlin's technical university. Among the talks will be also one about KDE as enterprise desktop (in German). At the booth we will demonstrate KDE 3.3.1 and thanks to SUSE the upcoming SUSE 9.2 KDE desktop which includes among other things OpenOffice.org 1.1.3 with KDE file dialog integration. Of course we will also demonstrate Kiosktool, kNX, Scribus and hopefully Mozilla/Qt and the Gecko kpart. Read More

The Kolab project has published a thesis by Magnus Stoermer about Kolab the Free Software groupware solution. Although the language is German it has a very liberal licence which shouldn't stop anyone from translating this publication. *** Read More

At aKademy I had the chance to talk to Chris Schlaeger about SUSE, its relationship with the KDE community, his view of the Linux enterprise desktop and the speed of development of several key features in KDE (a Dutch translation can be found at Bart&David). Read More

A few weeks ago KOffice 1.3.3 was released, the third bugfix release in the 1.3.x series. The people of Golem.de conducted an interview with David Faure, maintainer of KWord and the KOffice libraries about KOffice. They have sent us the English version for publication on the KDE news website for your reading pleasure. Read More

Highlights of this week's KDE CVS-Digest (experimental layout): XML auto-indenter in Kate. Rendering speed-ups in Kolourpaint. New media:/ KIO slave. Improved SQL parser in Kexi. Konversation adds support for SSL. Summary of Network-Integrated Multimedia Middleware from the aKademy presentations. Read More

If you haven't got your entry in for the documentation competition yet, it's time to start! The deadline for entries is this Sunday (October 3rd). Remember, just write one page for the new User Guide, in plain text, and send it to kde-doc-english@kde.org. We've already received four high quality entries covering kdebugdialog, launching programs, a konsole introduction and editing config files. Read on for a reminder of the list of possible topics. Don't miss your chance to grab some free O'Reilly gear! Read More

Used in production workflow of a commercial newspaper! Chosen as as one of their 'Cool Applications' by Trolltech! Nominated as finalist in the category 'Best Office Software' for the Linux Format Awards 2004! More than 750 bugs/feature requests closed since the 1.1.2 version! The professional DTP application Scribus is steaming ahead! Curious about the Scribus team? We have an interview for you originally conducted by the kind people of Golem.de just before the Scribus 1.2 release. Read More