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In an effort to bring the kde-look.org community's creative power to Kontact, a contest was launched some time ago: the Kontact Splash Screen Contest. It's time to present the winner: Dariusz Arciszewski, and to know a bit about him. There are news at the icons front as well. David Vignoni, of Nuvola Iconset fame, is designing a set of task oriented icons for use in Kontact, replacing the application oriented icons. We asked David some questions about his work and KDE. Read More

Trolltech has announced the availability of the first Qt 4 Technical Preview. Qt 4, the next major release of the popular cross-platform C++ application framework which KDE is based on, is scheduled for final release in late Q1, 2005. Read the online documentation or jump to the download page. Read More

When was the last time you took a look at KOffice, KDE's native office suite? This article looks at the good, and the bad, in the latest version of the 1.3 series. Although OpenOffice.org grabs most of the limelight KOffice has been steadily improving, with a low memory footprint and tight integration with Konqueror you might find useful. Read More

theKompany.com has announced the 1.1 release of Aethera, an email/PIM/groupware client that runs on Linux, Windows and starting with this release Mac OS X (Panther and later). The Kolab functionality has been improved and now includes support for "Shared Folders". Aethera is offered for free under GPL in English, German and French while additional plugins for Jabber (including peer to peer file transfer), whiteboarding and voice over IP are offered commercially. Read More

In its current issue Linux Magazine introduces the upcoming paint program of KDE 3.3 KolourPaint (PDF) to its readers. A second story describes the installation and features of the recipes manager KRecipes (PDF, German HTML) which recently moved from kdenonbeta to kdeextragear-3 module. Read More

While we were enjoying a short leave of absence we finished a new version of the "Application of the Month" series. Through the collaboration of the German and Dutch KDE teams we are now able to offer you an interview with Florian Simnacher, author of Konserve, a cool backup application for the KDE desktop. Enjoy Application of the Month in the languages German, Dutch and English. Read More

"The tenth annual LinuxTag proved to be a very successful event for the forty-plus KDE developers who presented their award-winning desktop environment to more than 16,000 enthusiastic visitors at 'Europe's largest OpenSource Event'." So begins Torsten Rahn's excellent report on KDE's presence at LinuxTag 2004. Read More

Issue 104 of Linux Gazette is out, and features two articles aimed at new users: Using Windows Keyboard Media Buttons In Linux by Tom Brown discusses the use of KHotKeys, with a brief introduction to DCOP for full control of KDE; and my own article, Front and Back: KPGP and GPG, introduces KGPG, while also showing the corresponding commands for those "stuck at a console" moments. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: KWord now can mailmerge from KSpread as data source. Less flicker in Konqueror and Kicker. And many bugfixes in KSnapshot , Konqueror, khtml and KMail. Read More

After a long development phase a new stable release of KRename is available for download. KRename is a powerful batch file renamer for KDE, which can be used to rename lots of files at once. Thus it is a great help in managing your digital images or your music collection. In 3.0.0 we focused not only on adding new features but also on increasing the overall usability of the application. Read More