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At first I was thinking to title this report, "Report: KDE at Comdex". You're thinking, well, that's what you did. Big deal. However, I then changed my mind and started to write a report entitled "Microsoft is Afraid". I think this is the most appropriate title. Then I realized that no-one would know what the real topic is, so I changed it back. Read More

In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: Read about KJSEmbed and what it is good for. Image handling speedups in KHTML. Start of OpenOffice.org table import support in KWord. Plus a continued focus on bugfixes. Read More

We're pleased to announce that KDevelop took first place in the fourth annual Linux New Media Awards with 29.4% of the votes in the category of best IDE development system; second and third places went to Eclipse and Anjuta respectively. The jury consisted of the editors of the German Linux-Magazin as well as authors, industry leaders and members of the Open Source Community, including kernel hacker Alan Cox and the president of Linux International, Jon "Maddog" Hall. The full article (in German) can be found here. Read More

theKompany.com has just announced that Rekall, the rapid application development database tool for Linux, similar in concept to MS Access, has been released under the GPL. Rekall can be built with KDE3 support as well as Qt-only. "Rekall will be supported via a community portal www.rekallrevealed.org. The codebase will be available as source tarballs, and CVS access will also be available for those who wish to stay on the bleeding edge. Feedback, bug fixes and contributions are actively sought. This is meant to be totally community driven and oriented." KOffice has of course evolved Kexi (devel) in the meantime. It will be interesting to see how things play out with Kexi being very new and Rekall relatively mature, but either way the GPL'ing of Rekall is fantastic news for the Linux community at large. Thank you, theKompany.com for your KDE support. Read More

Voting for the 2003 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards has begun. There are awards for Distribution of the Year, Browser of the Year, Multimedia App of the Year and many other categories. KDE related projects up for awards include KDE, Konqueror, KWin, KOffice, KSpread, KWord, Quanta, KMail and Kate. Read More

KDE Traffic #68 has been released, covering topics ranging from toolbars (1, 2), KMail and Kontact fun, to a change in the KDE 3.2 release schedule. Enjoy! Read More

In this week's CVS-Digest: A deeper freeze is called for in preparation for release. Kexi, a graphical database application now has GUI and non-GUI parts. Many bug fixes, including searching and sorting fixes in JuK, topmenu fixes in KWin, CSS and JavaScript fixes in Konqueror. Read More

Continuing the successful run of trade show presences, the KDE team used the opportunity of this year's Linux World Expo and Conference in Frankfurt, Germany to show off the latest K Desktop Environment. The booth staff presented the latest KDE pre 3.2 snapshots hot off CVS as well as the last stable release KDE 3.1, to a broad audience ranging from home users to system administrators, professional developers, IT managers and government representatives. The most common question from booth visitors: "I can't wait for 3.2 to be released, can you tell me the exact release date?" Read More

On Monday, thanks to the amazing help of Jill Ratkevic, Bruce Perens and Xandros, I was able to attend the Desktop Linux Conference to represent and speak about KDE. I followed a talk by Xandros, another KDE based product, and their demonstration was an impressive example of how KDE is being used to do great things. My talk focussed on what KDE is, what it provides, and where we're going with 3.2. It's standard for KDE developers, but important for those who are looking to move to Linux on the desktop. It was a long day! Read More

As some of you may know, KDE 3.2 will introduce a heavily improved configuration framework, known as KConfig XT. This new framework extends, not deprecates our current configuration API. To help developers understand KConfig XT I have created a short tutorial (ps, kwd) available on developer.kde.org. The tutorial goes over all the basic concepts of the new framework and hopefully will make your life a little easier. Read More