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As part of the March 2004 issue of the "Application of the month" series on KDE.de, Andreas C. Diekmann has interviewed Lars Doelle, author of Konsole. Konsole is what is known as an X terminal emulator and gives you the equivalent of an old-fashioned text screen on your desktop, but one which can easily share the screen with your graphical applications. The Dutch KDE website is offering an English translation of the interview and the overview of this issue. Many thanks to Tom Verbreyt and Wilbert Berendsen for their help in translating this issue. Read More

For this week's interview we hop over to Europe. We travel to the Netherlands to a town named Houten where a man lives who spends most his time writing up interviews and articles for the dot, whose ability to look good while dancing with bad movements on the dance floor is legendary and who's forever 21, it's KDE-NL's Fabrice Mous! Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: KDE integrates Mono with C# bindings. A PHP debugger integrated into Quanta. Work continues on eGroupware / Kontact integration. Kopete rewrites the Jabber plugin. Plus, a new tool for monitoring application usage. Read More

The Australian Linux/Open Source Magazine, linmagau.org, has an interview with George Staikos reflecting on the KDE 3.2 release. For those who have yet to try KDE 3.2, George has the following advice: "You have to experience KDE 3.2 to really understand how much KDE has improved since 3.1. The speed is clear. Give Konqueror a try, it's more stable, more compatible, and again, faster. KDevelop 3 is a whole new application and will quickly become your IDE of choice." Read More

When LWN editor Jonathan Corbet was forced to search for an alternative for his beloved "ical" calendar application he examined Evolution, KOrganizer, plan, gDeskCal and GNOME-PIM and found a clear winner: KOrganizer 3.2. He loves it as the only competitive replacement for ical and praises the top-quality job of its developers to create a highly configurable calendar manager with a minimum of unneeded baggage. Read More

Rinse de Vries, the coordinator of the dutch KDE translation group, reported about a new translation effort they started. Inspired by the project KDE op Platt they revitalised the idea of translating KDE to Frisian. Frisian is the second official language spoken in The Netherlands by almost 350.000 people (more info). The Frisian Team welcome every bit of help on this translation effort and people who are interested can subscribe to the mailinglist kde-i18n-fry@kde.org. Also www.kde.nl hosts a webpage dedicated to the Frisian translation effort. Interested? Please contact Rinse de Vries. Read More

LinuxPlanet's Kurt Wall reviews the KDE 3.2 series. Before he was concerned that KDE's size and complexity would result in a desktop that was virtually unusable but is pleased and surprised to find that KDE 3.2 is significantly faster, easier to use, more consistently implemented, and easier on the eyes than any previous version and calls it a terrific product which shows that Linux is increasingly competitive on the desktop. Read More

CeBIT, the world largest computer trade show, is taking place in Hannover from 18 to 24 March. The KDE Project will be present and showcasing the latest developments of the innovative KDE 3.2 desktop. The KDE Team can be found in the booth of Linup Front, come around and visit the developers, translators and representatives who are there. This gives you the opportunity to talk to several of the creators of the award-winning desktop environment. Read More

This week we stay in the USA and travel to the west coast, to Hillsboro, Oregon, hometown of Eric Laffoon. We all know Eric Laffoon as the Quanta+ Team Leader. In this interview we get to see a glimpse of the more private site of Eric. He's a multitasker, gets excited by catnip, describes himself as a 'wild and crazy guy', is best known for his good cigars and still looks good in spandex ;-) Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: A new Kiosk configuration front-end. amaroK now supports NMM architecture. Kate adds an autobookmark editor. KGeography, a geography teaching tool is in kdenonbeta. KMail adds automatic mailing list handling. And work continues on Kexi with a property editor and form framework. Read More