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In this week's Digest: The Kopete developers release a new version of the messaging client. KMail message threading is improved. KNode, a news reader, is integrated into Kontact. KOrganizer printing gets improved. KOffice uses the new version of wvWare for MS Word import. JuK playlists are improved. Plus many bugfixes. Read More

Well, you asked for it and now you've got it, a very content-filled KDE Traffic has just been released. Covered items include KPilot, the KDE man page generator, a new KDE development book in the works, a new KInfocenter module for FireWire and proposed new features for KMail. Get KDE Traffic #60 here. Read More

For its September 2003 issue, Linux Magazine has interviewed several KDE developers, resulting in two feature stories. Both are available online in PDF format. The first, titled "Sneak Preview" deals with the KDE Contributor Conference 2003 ("Kastle") and summarizes the developers' personal plans for the conference and what they expect as an outcome of the hacking festival. In "Hidden but sooo useful" several KDE tips and tricks are revealed by the developers. Read More

A recent study prepared by Evans Data concluded that KDE is the preferred desktop environment amongst Linux developers. 65% of the 600 surveyed said that they currently use KDE, against 56% for GNOME. Nicholas Petreley, Evans Data's Linux analyst, said "It is also interesting to note that KDE has taken a statistically significant lead in use and deployment after running neck and neck with GNOME for the past three years." Read More

The UKUUG Linux2003 Conference took place in Edinburgh last weekend. I ran the KDE stall, gave a talk on Umbrello UML Modeller and attended the other talks. Read on for the whole report. Read More

The Open Palmtop Integrated Environment (Opie) project is pleased to announce its first 1.0 release. Having been forked from Trolltech™'s Qtopia™ environment (version 1.7 of which was also released today), Opie has emerged as the most sophisticated free and open graphical user interface for Linux-based embedded devices and PDAs. KDE users will recognize familiar artwork and applications such as Konqueror/Embedded running on it. Synchronisation with KDE 3.1 is possible with KitchenSync. Read More

In this week's CVS Digest: QtRuby, Ruby bindings for Qt are now in the kdebindings module. KDevelop has a new class browser. An OBEX kio-slave has been added. KWallet is enabled for compilation and testing. Plus KWin improvements, lots of work on KPilot conduits and many bugfixes. Read More

The KDE Project announced KDE 3.1.3 today. It's the third maintenance release of the successful KDE 3.1.x series and ships with many bugfixes and improved translations. KDE 3.1.3 also contains a fix for a possible HTTP authentication leak in the HTTP referrer header. Users of KDE 3.x are advised to upgrade to KDE 3.1.3. Read the change log or directly jump to the download links on the KDE 3.1.3 Info Page. The Konstruct build toolset was updated accordingly. Read More

This week's CVS-Digest: Find out who is paid to hack KDE. A new application, KLogo-Turtle, for teaching children. KPrinter adds access to online printer database. Kontact adds a to-do list plugin. A redesigned font installer. The beginning of KWallet. And many more features and bugfixes. Read More

After a long phase of testing and bugfixing, Kolab, the result of the Kroupware project, has finally been announced. Kolab is a groupware solution that offers email, group calendaring, notes and tasks. Kolab Server is available as 1.0, the KDE Kolab Client is provided in an improved 1.0.1 version. Additionally, the Kolab Server can also be used with Microsoft Outlook™. This makes it an ideal tool for migrations to the GNU/Linux platform. Read More