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Marcel Gagné's latest "Cooking with Linux" over at the Linux Journal covers some nice graphical ways of dealing with or joining the MS Windows network neighborhood, lately referred to as network places. The article shows you how to use Konqueror or Nautilus to access Samba or Windows shares, and it introduces the very cool SMB4K, a powerful SMB share browser for KDE. Read More

After almost a year and a half since its last release, a double-entry version of the KMyMoney personal finance management software for KDE is now available. Version 0.6 supports multiple account types, including credit cards, cash, savings, loans and mortgages. Read More

Kommander is on its way to become one of the most compelling tools in KDE. It has elements that should be very interesting to application developers, power users, newbies and companies looking at using the Linux desktop. So the answer to the question many of you may be asking, "What is Kommander?", really has to be answered from each perspective. A simplified technical description is that Kommander is two programs, an editor and an executor, that produce dialogs that you can execute. Read More

As part of its Grumpy Editor series, LWN.net looks at current terminal emulators. Not surprisingly they also mention KDE's Konsole which seems to win in terms of features. And as a teaser for upcoming KDE 3.3, look at this screenshot of Konsole showing real transparency while running under freedesktop.org's X Server. Read More

You may have noticed that your beloved KDE news site experienced availability problems during the last two weeks. The reason for the outage was a scheduled server movement followed by some unscheduled problems. We hope to have everything under control again and would like to thank Pierre-Emmanuel Muller of leVillage for hosting dot.kde.org and for helping us out with the recent problems. Read More

The KDE project announced the availability of KDE 3.2.3, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.3 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2.2 and is available in 51 languages. Sources and contributed packages are linked on the KDE 3.2.3 info page. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: More Enriconian optimizations to Konqueror. Qt only KJSEmbed made easier. Kolourpaint adds zoom. Kitchensync adds ability to sync calendar resources. KOrganizer adds a journal editor. Digikam adds image editor plugins. KOffice continues work on OASIS file format save and load. amaroK adds streaming support using GStreamer. KDevelop adds win32 Qt templates. Read More

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In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: KDevelop has a new Qt Designer port. KStars adds support for Philips webcams. Two more icons sizes are added to Konqueror file mode. The PIM Kitchensync supports syncing Kolab, eGroupware and OPIE addressbooks. Crypto improvements in KMail. KWin adds per window settings. Read More

This week Bull Netherlands announced on their website that they will offer services on the KDE desktop. A large and public company providing KDE support is something many KDE users (and, more importantly, potential users) will be very interested in. The Dutch KDE Team has translated the original announcement to English. Read More