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We're pleased to announce that the Fosdem website has published a nice interview with Gunnar Schmi Dt of the KDE Accessibility Project. Fosdem is a two-day summit taking place February 21 and 22, and will bring together leading developers in the Free Software community. Contrary to a Linux Expo, Fosdem is an event held by developers, for developers. Besides Gunnar, several other KDE hackers will be present at Fosdem. Feel free to visit them at the KDE developers' room. Read More

Marcel Gagne, very famous for his "Cooking with Linux" columns in Linux Journal, has informed us about his second book "Moving to Linux: Kiss the Blue Screen of Death Goodbye!" It concentrates on the user desktop, specifically KDE 3.1. This book covers basic desktop functions, KMail, Konqueror, KDE printing, CD burning, multimedia, games, etc. You can watch a nice slide presentation about the book in Shockwave Flash or OpenOffice Impress on the site. Marcel has also stated that beside bookstore sales, there are a few desktop Linux training companies that are starting to use the book as their Linux desktop guide. The book comes with a remastered Knoppix disk featuring, you guessed it, KDE. But we have even more hot news... Read More

Solutions Linux is the main Linux Trade Show in France. The French KDE team was there like the precedent year promoting our favorite desktop. Our booth located in the very lively Association's village was organised by the indefatigable Gérard Delafond and sported an impressive Xinerama screen-wall demonstrating the brand new KDE 3.2. This wall was sponsored by MandrakeSoft and Belinea. Read More

In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: The LDAP kio-slave is improved with TSL and SSL for secure connections and SASL for authentication. KDEPIM has a new certificate manager. Work proceeds apace on the khtml XML parser and xpath libraries. Plus a large number of bug fixes in Kopete. Read More

After nearly one and half years of development Digikam 0.6 and its plugin package have been released. Digikam is a simple digital photo management application which makes importing and organizing digital photos a "snap". The photos can be organized in albums which are automatically sorted chronologically. An easy to use interface is provided to connect to your camera and preview images and download and/or delete them. Behind the scenes Digikam utilizes gPhoto2 to access your camera if it has no normal file system. Read More

Following the release of KDE 3.2, a friend and I have put together a series of articles promoting features of KDE that might change the way you work. We all know about the features of KDE that are promoted in press releases and demonstrated in screenshots, but the enormous power that lies "under the hood" of KDE in technologies like kioslaves, view profiles and kparts is often overlooked. So far we have three complete articles: Managing Websites, Extending Konqueror with View Profiles, and Using KPrinter in Any App. We hope to develop this into a decent series of promotional articles, beyond the "tips and tricks" already available, so comments and suggestions are welcome! Read More

QtForum.org, the independent Qt community Website launched October 2003, today announced the QtForum.org Developer Contest. The subject for the contest is edutainment. This QtForum.org Developer Contest is sponsored by Trolltech as a part of the company's support of the open source community. Read More

In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: KStars now has constellation lines. Gwenview is now a KPart, for embedded use in Konqueror. Plus many bug fixes and improvements in KMail and Konqueror. Read More

Perhaps the recent KDE and Qt releases made you want to contribute to KDE or to start your own Qt/KDE application? Then you may be interested in the new "C++ GUI Programming with Qt 3" book, the first official Trolltech guide to Qt 3.2 programming. It's written by Trolltech software engineer Jasmin Blanchette and Trolltech's documentation manager Mark Summerfield, with a foreword by Matthias Ettrich, Trolltech lead developer and founder of the KDE project. Read More