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This week The People Behind KDE travels back to the 'Low Lands' or Netherlands where we visit the guy who is known for his 'gruesome green shorts', wants to marry into a KDE family and describes himself as 'very weird'. Are you anxious to find out more about this colorful personality? Than read all there is to know about Alexander Kellett! Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: KPresenter can save to Sony memory chips for use with Sony projectors. KOrganizer implements recurring todos. KPilot implements auto-detection of devices. KDE now supports relocation of installation directories. Work continues on KDevelop documentation browser, allowing documentation search from cursor. KJSEmbed adds more signals and examples. Read More

On the 20th and 21st April, those of us in the UK were proud to represent KDE at the Linux User and Developer Expo 2004 at London's Olympia exhibition centre. Representatives were Jonathan Riddell, Charles Samuels, Chris Howells, Jeff Snyder, David Pashley, Malcolm Hunter, Richard Moore and George Wright, although Malcolm and Richard only came for the second day. Read More

OpenOffice.org 1.1.1 with KDE Native Widget Framework and KDE Crystal icon set is now available for download. If you are interested in screenshots, you can have a look at pictures of OOo Writer, OOo Calc or at a KDE desktop running OOo. Read More

Ian Geiser at SourceXtreme, Inc has posted the second in a series of articles on development with KJSEmbed. KJSEmbed is the KDE JavaScript engine with bindings for Qt/KDE. These bindings allow people to create scripts that can tightly integrate into KDE quickly with simple JavaScript. This article covers how to use the DCOP API from KJSEmbed and sports a simple demo script that shows off how to use this API. This article covers the bleeding edge version of KJSEmbed from CVS because of new features that were added soon after the release of KDE 3.2. The goal is to give people an overview of the new technology and to allow developers to become aware of the new scripting options. Both developers and non-developers are encouraged to check out the new article. Read More

The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.2, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.2 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2.1 and is available in 49 languages. Sources and contributed packages are linked on the KDE 3.2.2 info page. Read More

On The People Behind KDE this week an interview with an Indonesian hacker in Germany. Confused? But wait there is more! He describes himself as a bunch of 'ordinary itchy living cells', gets bored quickly, needs 'fresh blood to suck' but his friends think he's hilarious. Curious? Read more and get to know this week's star Ariya Hidayat! Read More

After more than two years of development, the long anticipated successor of KWinTV has reached its first public release. kdetv is an application to watch TV using Xv or video4linux compatible video cards. With this release of kdetv, Linux users can now enjoy a user-friendly desktop TV viewing experience. Read More

Finding you need to send top-secret email communication with KMail, but you don't know where to start? An article in Linux Journal (part of Marcel Gagné's "Cooking with Linux" series) shows you how to use the Gnu Privacy Guard (GnuPG) in conjunction with KGpg to secure your email. Learn how to generate and import keys, sign and encrypt email, and otherwise keep your private communication away from prying eyes. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: KJSEmbed adds shell calls and now builds with Qt. KDevelop has a new documentation viewer, with bookmarks, printing, plugins and full text search. KSVG2 ecma support added. KNotes is now network enabled. Konqueror gets an enhanced version of caret mode. Kopete supports KIMproxy, the generic IM interface. Many bugfixes in Juk, Kate, Umbrello and others. Read More