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Well, the basic news is quite short: K3b is now able to burn DVDs. But this would be a little too short. ;) So for all of you who do not know what K3b is (the name does not really mean anything): K3b is (was) a CD burning application for KDE (screenshots). It uses cdrecord and cdrdao for actually burning the CDs but implements its own methods for all CD information retrieval functionality. Read More

Staikos Computing Services Inc. is proud to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.1.4 packages for AIX 5L! Many thanks go to Reza Arbab and IBM, without whom this could not have been possible. Be sure to visit the FAQ for more information. All source patches are available on the download site and we are working hard to integrate them into KDE CVS for KDE 3.2. You can download the packages from your nearest KDE FTP mirror. Read More

In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: CSS and other bugfixes in Konqueror. Amarok gets a DCOP interface. Two new applications: Viki, a visual keyboard, and KolourPaint, yet another paint program. Klaptopdaemon adds PMU support, and now compiles on your S/390. Read More

Atlantik will adopt KSVG to render game boards. KSVG, KDE's implementation of the Scalable Vector Graphics specification, will be included in KDE 3.2, adding support for a growing technology. KSVG has been maturing in the kdenonbeta development module for a long while and the enthusiasm of the developers is spreading to other parts of KDE. Atlantik, the leading open-source game client for Monopoly-like board games, is one of the first KDE applications slated to adopt KSVG for more than fancy icons. Read More

Linux Journal announced today the winners of the Ninth Annual Readers' Choice Awards. Although no real surprise, KDE continued its strong series since 1999 and won once again in the category "Favorite Desktop Environment". Thanks to all our users for using and voting for KDE. Read More

KDE Traffic #66 Part 2 has now been released on zork.net. (The backup site is still available, but is now intended for experimentation and mirroring.) This traffic contains news on KPovModeler, the kdesupport module, Konqueror (what issue would be complete without it?), KMail, KPaint and last but not least, giant pink fluffy bunnies. OK, nix the bunnies, but it's still a decent issue. Look for issue #67 to be released shortly. Read More

In its November 2003 issue, Linux Magazine publishes several KDE related articles of which two are also available online in PDF format. The first, titled "There's an aim called 3.2" looks back on the KDE Contributor Conference and asks again several developers what they really accomplished during the hack fest. In "Boost your efficiency" Scott Wheeler describes how you can easily write scripts which use DCOP to control your KDE desktop and help you save much work. Read More

KDE Traffic #65 Part 1 is now available. Note that it is at a new temporary place and is part one of a series of two, the other of which should come out today. This issue covers KDE 3.2, KDE 3.1.4, apidox, KMail, audiocd, db-aware applications, giving KDE a flak jacket, Jabber, JPEG, and more. Read More

In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: Quanta gets a table editor. KSVG improves with new gradient algorithms. KStars implements suggestions from the KGUS, aka KStars Girlfriend Usability Study. Many bugfixes in KMail, KHTML and elsewhere. Read More

Jeroen Wijnhout, the current maintainer of the TeX/LaTeX editor and GnuPlot frontend Kile was interviewed for kde.de's monthly series "Application of the Month". The interview was conducted in English by Andreas C. Diekmann who kindly provided us with this English transcript. Read on for Jeroen's personal background, how he got involved and the upcoming features of Kile 1.6. Read More