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As KDE 3.2 is approaching and the first Beta version is near, more and more people are testing it. Therefore, a lot of new bugs are appearing in KDE's bugtracking system. While this is of course a good thing, it is much easier for the developers if all the reported bugs are (still) valid and precise enough. Everyone with a current version of KDE is able to do this cleanup-work, coding-knowledge is not needed. Think of it this way: The less time the developers spend on fixing bug reports, the more time they can spend on fixing the bugs themselves! So if you wish to help KDE, consider reading through this manual posted on the KDE Community Wiki Site and do your part in making KDE 3.2 the best KDE ever! Read More

In this article, NewsForge's Joe Barr takes CD/DVD creator K3b for a spin and likes it. "K3b does more than burn audio, ISO, and data CDs. It can clone CDs and it handles DVDs, too. And it can make bootable multimedia CDs by using eMovix as well. It's a really great application. I rank it up there with Scribus in terms of being the one of the best (new to me) open source programs I've seen." So be sure to check out K3b if you aren't satisfied with your current CD/DVD burner application. Read More

In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: KHotKeys now has a GUI. KOrganizer now supports todo attachments. Kexi has a PostgreSQL driver. Bug fixes in KHTML layer support and rendering engine. Many bugfixes in KMail, Kopete and KOrganizer. Read More

In this article (french), LinuxFrench reveals that 7 years ago, October 14th 1996 to be exact, Matthias Ettrich announced and detailed a new project that was in search of contributers. The project was temporarily dubbed the Kool Desktop Environment, later to simply become the K Desktop Environment. Of course, 7 years later and KDE is about to reach version 3.2, consists of 4.5 millions lines of code and represents the effort of nearly 1400 man-years. So Happy Birthday KDE, and long live Konqi! Read More

As a newcomer to KDE, I have written up an example-based tutorial on KDialog that you might find useful. For those of you not familiar with it, KDialog allows one to use KDE dialogs from shell scripts, which has the potential to make things look a lot more professional and well integrated into our favourite desktop environment. This tutorial was originally going to be part of a KDE developers' book, but has been released while the future of that book is still being decided. Incidentally, documentation turns out to be a thorough way of exploring an application, and a bug or two were discovered and fixed along the way! Read More

COMDEX is one of the largest computer conventions in the United States. O'Reilly & Associates, publishers and Open Source advocates, have stuck a deal with COMDEX to sponsor six open projects to appear among the commercial vendors and demonstrate their product. KDE is one of the 21 projects selected as possibilities, and there is an online poll currently running to select the six choices. You can vote once per day, so make it part of your daily routine! Read More

In this week's CVS-Digest: Disconnected IMAP fixed in KMail. KHTML now supports jng image format. KDevelop has a Subversion plugin. KDE has global settings for mouse gestures. Kopete has new "Away" and plugin configuration dialogs. KControl has a new style configuration dialog. Plus many bugfixes in KMail and KHTML. Read More

Linux Expo UK 2003 took place in London on October 8 - 9. KDE took part in the .org village along with twenty other Free Software projects (photo from front, photo from back). We demonstrated KDE 3.2 Alpha to a constant stream of visitors (over 5 500 were at the show, most of them seemed to be at the .org village stand) and handed out several hundred leaflets. Read More

In other news, some until now unpublished submissions: The team of the strategy game Boson has released two movie files showing their development progress. The Kicker alternative Slicker gets redesigned and its team started a logo contest. The KDE on Cygwin project announced that both KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 7 and Quanta 3.2 Alpha 2 packages for KDE 3.1.1 on Cygwin are now available for download. The pim.kde.org site gained a page describing the command line program KonsoleKalendar. Finally, the KDE-Forum.org recently passed the 1500 users and 5000 posts milestones. Read More

In the last few weeks fans of users the K Desktop Environment have been treated to a shipload of spectacular icon sets from well known and talented artists. Go ahead, liven up your desktop, there is bound to be a style that's right for you! Read More