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Sources for the Crystal icon set are everywhere. They are at many places in KDE's CVS, so many, it's hard to download them. Artists more skillful with sketchbooks than CVS, will be gladly surprised that Frans Englich wrote a script which collects them all, and that Philip Scott provided a high speed server for the resulting zip. Read More

After a long break, KDE Traffic is back. KDE Traffic #76 includes tons of news about KMail, KOffice, Konqueror, K3b, KolourPaint and more of your favorite KDE apps. Check it out! Read More

Qt Quarterly is a paper-based newsletter exclusively available to Trolltech's Qt customers. As a courtesy and convenience, a selection of articles are delayed also made available online in HTML format. One of the more interesting articles for KDE developers in this year's first quarter issue is an article by Jasmin Blanchette which gives "A Taste of Qt 4". A Qt 4 technology preview is expected for this summer requesting for feedback and a Qt 4 Beta is planned for the second half of 2004. Read More

Eirik Eng, president of Trolltech, and Matthias Ettrich, founder of the KDE project and director of software development at Trolltech, were interviewed by Philippe Fremy, KDE enthusiast. This interview was conducted in August 2003. The interview was made possible by Laurent Rathle, who is maintaining the KDE France website. A French translation is available on KDE-France. Read More

Another Dutch treat! This guy has given himself the Dutch label; a 'hardcore béta', he's focussed on writing his thesis, can't stand bad and rude behavior on IRC, amuses himself with Algebra and his most successful and recent accomplishment is contributing to the compilation of a new project, a baby girl named Mira! This week we sync up with KPilot's Adriaan de Groot! Read More

I gave my presentation "KDE 3.2: A User's Perspective" to my local Linux User Group last Tuesday night as previously announced. The talk was well received, and left some people (even KDE users) overwhelmed with new information. It just goes to show that I wasn't the only one who knew KDE was a great environment, but hadn't even scratched the surface yet! My presentation 'slides', a collection of over 3MB of screenshots of KDE in action, are now online for your viewing pleasure (mirrored here). Enjoy! Read More

At the beginning of March, the KDE Project announced the launch of the Quality Teams Project, a new effort to help people contribute to KDE, whether you are a programmer or not. Lots of people showed interest, and we enjoyed an initial burst of activity, so read on to find out what has happened, and how you can get involved in your favorite desktop environment, and see your work being distributed around the world. Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: KJSEmbed adds support for KParts and QComboBox. Beginnings of next generation user guide. More IMAP and icon view optimizations. Kexi now supports forms. KIMProxy, a library to enable IM from any application. CSS ECMA bindings added in KDOM. Read More

Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB has released the first beta version of KD Executor 2.0, our tool for testing and automation. KD Executor is a record and playback tool for Qt and KDE applications. In addition, it contains a test environment which uses this record and playback tool for testing Qt and KDE applications. We are proud to release a free version (free as in beer, not as in speech) of this tool to the KDE community. Read More

Ian Geiser at SourceXtreme, Inc has posted the first 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 goes through the process of how to build a core script, add database connectivity and to add GUI control. Both developers and non-developers are encouraged to check it out. Read More