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Right on the heels of the KDE 3.2.1 release, Savanna is back with an article about her latest upgrade to the KDE 3.2 desktop. After being on 3.2 beta for several months, she wasn't expecting too much of this upgrade. Read More

The KDE project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.2.1 ships with lot of bug fixes since KDE 3.2 and is available in 49 languages (now including Bengali, Icelandic, Japanese, Lithuanian, Low Saxon, Latin Serbian and Tajik). Sources and contributed packages are linked on the KDE 3.2.1 info page. Read More

After many years of writing Qt code, most of which has been non-GUI-based, I've gained a great deal of experience with signals and slots. One tricky issue about signals is that they are generally emitted when the QObject is not in a safe state to be deleted. This can often bite the user of such an object unexpectedly, especially when performing resets or invoking QMessageBox. The simple solution is to write all QObject classes in such a way that they are deletable as the result of any signal they emit. I've written an article on Signal-safety, where I outline the problem and solution, as well as provide workarounds for safely handling misbehaving objects (those that don't follow such guidelines). Every Qt developer should read and understand this. Happy coding! Read More

Recently TechDigest.org put their creative thinking into the interview format by asking people to submit questions which could be part of an interview. The results take the Quanta/kdewebdev project leader from childhood tech memories to what's new in Quanta and points between. If you're curious about Quanta, where it's going or what's on Eric's mind this is a good read. If you would like to some hints about some exciting possibilities to see even greater growth in Quanta development to benefit users and attract web developers to KDE then grab the interview! Read More

"An intrepid KDE fellow did not hesitate to venture in the bare landscape of ice, snow and rocks of the French Alps to report on the highest Public Internet Access Centre located in the Tourist House of Val Thorens, a ski resort spreading between 2300 and 3200 meters. In these extreme conditions, our reporter found in the hall of the Tourist House, five cybertables full of computers in front of which tourists of all nationalities were sitting surfing the web with intensity after having surfed down the snowy slopes. " Read more of this fascinating story and view pictures at KDE France. Read More

Some progress has been made on implementing the Google search bar, a Konqueror plugin which can be found in CVS. It uses the default searchprovider as selected in Konqueror under the Web Shortcuts settings, so it's not limited to Google only. Read More

For this week's People Behind KDE interview we stay on the North American continent, cross the border and travel down to Philadelphia. The guy I'm interviewing this week is remembered among his friends for trying to enforce a passionate relationship on a Ximian person, sleeps with his laptop and is one of KDE's most outgoing developers. The man who cut his famous dreadlocks and emerged with a clean crew cut, it's Zack Rusin! Read More

In this week's KDE CVS-Digest: Ruby bindings now have DCOP support. Reaktivate, a Konqueror module for embedding ActiveX controls, is improved. RealRekord, an application to record RealPlayer streams, is imported. KConfEdit adds a property editor. Read More

Martyn Honeyford from IBM's UK Labs introduces KDE's desktop communication protocol (DCOP) on the IBM developerWorks site. He describes how to utilize it with the graphical kdcop and the command line dcop utilities with several examples such as instantly messaging a contact in Kopete when he comes online and also how to create a simple DCOP-aware application. Read More

LWN.net has reviewed KMail 1.6 as part of a comparison of different mail clients. The reviewer also glances at Kontact with some nice words but then concentrates on its mail component and the address book. He finds it to be a modern and full-featured mail client with few deficits in IMAP and search support which will likely be addressed in the pending KDE PIM 3.3 release. Read More