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KDE Traffic #62 was quietly released last week. A whole lot of news in this one, including some discussion on the new KPrefs, GConf2, quick tab access in Konqueror, a lot of KOffice news (beta 3 feature freeze, better support for Word 6 and Word 95), and mention of the new pim.kde.org design. Thanks Russell! Read More

korganizer.kde.org reports that theKompany.com recently has released the 1.0 version of their cross-platform PIM suite Aethera. This includes KOrganizer as calendar and todo list component. The KOrganizer component (screenshot) is based on the original unmodified KOrganizer source code and has been ported to Windows using a similar technology as was used for porting KOrganizer/Embedded to the Qtopia environment. This once again is a great proof of the power and flexibility of open source development and KDE technology. Read More

Quite a few KOffice developers took the opportunity to meet during the Kastle event in Nové Hrady, and particularly to discuss the future of KOffice after the next major release (KOffice 1.3 slated for the end of September 2003). A summary of the topics discussed follows. Read More

On Saturday, the KDE Contributors' Conference 2003 was officially opened. Two days full with talks in two tracks followed only being interrupted by meals, group photo and the obligatory social event on Saturday evening. On Monday there was a PGP keysigning, a press conference was held and in workshops further work was discussed. Read More

On Saturday evening Matthias Ettrich, director of Qt development, gave within a talk at the KDE Developers' Conference 2003 in Nové Hrady -- besides a presentation of the company, the KDE/FreeQt Foundation and the past and present of the Qt development toolkit -- an outlook on Qt 4. Qt 4 is expected to be released in 2004 and promises to deliver increased performance, both at startup and runtime, more flexibility and productivity and changes to ease the learning process. Read more excerpts from the slides shown with the help of Matthias' home-brewn presentation program. Read More

The KDE-Women project was founded in 2001 as an international forum for women involved with or interested in KDE. It was originally intended to be a place where women could present their current contributions to KDE and where women who wished to contribute could find a starting point. That was the goal of KDE-Women then, and still is now. After a period of dormancy, the project has been relaunched in terms of a revamped website based on the new KDE design as well as fresh and updated content such as the tutorials and howto's and an article on Kontact. Read More

For developers waiting for all of the new goodies that KDE 3.2 will offer, here is a sneak peek at KAutoConfigDialog, in the form of a new tutorial added to the KDE Developer's Corner. KAutoConfigDialog is a class that allows a developer to easily create a configuration dialog for an application. It automatically synchronizes GUI widget values with values in the configuration file by matching keys and widgets of the same name. KAutoConfigDialog also manages the buttons in a normal configuration dialog along with many other features -- reducing duplicated code and manual work. For full details and screenshots check out the tutorial! Read More

In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: KStars is now using a new free star map and the telescope interface gains some new wizards. KGhostview (PDF/PostScript viewer) now has a thumbnail preview. A new KHotKeys is in the works. KOrganizer is improved with work on drag and drop, alarms and todo lists.The KDE Config Editor moves along. The trash icon is cleaned up. KHTML caret navigation is almost completed. The KDE dialogs can now be used by non-KDE applications. And more. Read More

Tomorrow is the first day of the KDE Developers' Conference 2003 (nicknamed "Kastle"), preceded today by the KDE e.V. membership meeting and followed by a week long hackfest until Sunday 31st. The Kastle event is hosted by KDE e.V., the Academic and University Center Nové Hrady and the Polytechnic University of Upper Austria in Hagenberg. Amongst the sponsors are Hewlett Packard, Trolltech, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, SuSE and Stadrin. Press coverage of the conference is by Linux Magazine and also in a small series on the Dot starting today. Read More

Have you ever dreamt of OpenOffice.org integration in KDE? Perhaps you should try cuckooo, a KDE Part which allows OpenOffice.org to be run in a Konqueror window. It is currently limited to just viewer capabilities, but as you can see from the screenshots, the technology is promising. You can of course download and try it, but please be patient with it. Cuckooo is at a very early stage of development, so you might encounter debug info on the standard error output, misbehavior or even crashes. But if you are willing to test it, I am looking forward to feedback! Read More