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Qt/Mac has been GPLed since Apple's World Wide Developer Conference 2003, which let everybody think that KOffice and the whole KDE stuff would quickly become native Aqua applications. However, the KDE on Darwin project is not really active and needs more developers. So if you know C++, Qt or KDE, please join our development list and say "Hello". Konsole has already been ported, but actually doesn't refresh right.

pim.kde.org reports that a new mailing list kdepim-users for discussion about the usage of the KDE PIM applications (Kontact, KAddressBook, KMail, KOrganizer and everything else in the kdepim CVS module) has been created. Users who want to help with user support for the KDE PIM applications are very welcome to the new mailinglist. Your help is very much appreciated by the developers.

This week's CVS-Digest: Mostly bug fixes. Code folding and highlighting fixes in Kate. Message selection and deleting bugs fixed in KMail. Screenshots of Kexi, the graphical database front-end.

The OpenOffice.org KDE Integration project has been launched today. Maybe you remember Cuckooo, a KPart allowing OOo to be embedded in the Konqueror window (as a viewer). In the meantime this has evolved into an OpenOffice.org Qt port and the development does not stop there. KDE Integration is now an official "Incubator" project at OpenOffice.org, which means that it has been accepted by the OpenOffice.org community and if it continues well, it will become an official "accepted" project.

It is only a few days after the KDE::Enterprise website has been freshened up and already the content is flooding in! In this interview with MandrakeSoft's Co-founder Gaël Duval we hear of one of their latest products, MandrakeMove, and the reasons behind MandrakeSoft's choice of KDE as its principle graphical interface.

NEWS ALERT: In tonight's edition of the The Linux Show our beloved KDE desktop will be featured and KDE developers George Staikos and Aaron J. Seigo will join in. It all starts LIVE at 6pm PST / 7pm MST / 8pm CST / 9pm EST at www.thelinuxshow.com. Update: The archived version of the show is now available for download.

We have just released KDE Traffic #70, with lots of news for you. Topics include a new release of Kolab, KMail performance improvements, KOffice toolbar icons (again!), administering KDE, apps.kde.com and more. Check it out at the usual place.

After gathering a bit of dust due to some server changes KDE::Enterprise has recently received a face lift and is now fully operational again. To freshen up the contents we would like to invite you to share your KDE Success Stories with us. Has your company made a succesful switch to KDE? Tell us about it!

Gwenview is a simple image viewer for KDE. It features a folder tree window and a file list and thumbnail window to provide easy navigation of your file hierarchy, and uses docked windows that allows you to alter the layout in any way you want (screenshot page). Gwenview can load and save all image formats supported by KDE, but Gwenview can also browse GIMP .xcf files thanks to the QXCFI component developed by Lignum Computing. When browsing JPEG images with EXIF information, Gwenview even automatically rotates them according to the EXIF Orientation tag. See here for a full overview of the features in this release.

Our first KDE 3.2 Beta "Rudi" was a huge success and resulted in over 2000 resolved bugs. As the code still has some rough edges, we decided to go for another beta. So here it is: Dobra Voda. Please continue reporting problems you see with it, your testing is much appreciated. You can download Dobra Voda at http://download.kde.org/unstable/3.1.94. Currently we have binaries for Fedora, Slackware and SUSE, besides the sources.