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A few days ago, we've opened a new section on our Polish K Desktop Environment website called "KDE Users Database". This is not only for Polish users, it's international. After some time it'll be good rate of KDE users number all over the world. Every registered user can save generated certificates and put them on his desktop or website. So, let's register! Please note, that this is not an official KDE users counter - but, maybe in future - it might change. Read More

Enjoy this issue of KDE CVS-Digest: Code folding and syntax highlighting improvements in Kate. KDevelop has a new file template system. KGeography adds more maps and flags. Digikam improves EXIF tag editing and display. KMail adds detailed new mail notification and anti-virus tool support. Kontact adds support for SUSE Linux OpenExchange Server. Konqueror adds spring loading folders. KMyFirewall adds rule plugins. Read More

That's one small step for KDE, one giant leap for Free Software - the KDE 3.3 Alpha 1 has been released to the FTP servers this morning. There won't be any binary packages for this release, everyone using Kindergarten is asked to compile it with --enable-debug, so that we can get valuable feedback. There is a new unstable version of Konstruct also available to install it. Other than that, feel free to play around with things, check if your bugs are still there or if there are places where you can help. Check the KDE 3.3 feature plan for things to look for. Read More

In a rather late KDE CVS-Digest: Security fixes in URI handlers. KAddressbook now handles IM addresses. Kppp now can handle multiple modem configurations. KUser now can use LDAP, Samba and MD5 shadow passwords. Read More

In its current issue Linux Magazine published an article (PDF) about playlist management with JuK. For starters: JuK is KDE's outstanding playlist-based jukebox application with a lot of unique and powerful features. The article talks about playlist management, advanced tag guessing with musicbrainz and how to keep your music collection consistant easily. Author Scott Wheeler has also been interviewed earlier by Andreas C. Diekmann. Read More

On Artemio's homepage I read that the new SUSE version 9.1 uses KDEvibes, a collection of system sounds for the KDE desktop. More system sounds can be found at KDE-Look.org. Read More

Linux.com is offering an article from the author Brian Jones, who as a sysadmin came across KSysGuard, the KDE task manager and performance monitor. KSysGuard uses so-called sensors to retrieve the information it displays. Please read the findings of a sysadmin on KSysGuard. Read More

OSNews.com interviewed two of the most popular artists in Linux world of art: Everaldo Coelho from KDE and Jakub Steiner (Jimmac) from the GNOME camp. Currently Everaldo works for Lindows and Jakub works for Novell. They were very kind to answer questions related with the art in Linux, its future and much more. Read More

The KOffice Developer Resources have now a few task lists. Please note that the tasks are meant for KOffice CVS HEAD. Nevertheless some can be done on KOffice 1.3.x too and some are even general enough to be done elsewhere in KDE too. Read More

Again this month we offer you a new version of the "Application of the Month" series as the Dutch team is trying to get in sync with the German team. This issue covers an interview of Koos Vriezen, author of KMPlayer, a multimedia player for the KDE Desktop. Enjoy Application of the Month in the languages German, Dutch and English. Read More