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With the release of Trolltech's Qt 3.2.0 beta1, the upcoming KDE 3.2 has gained increased support for Indic languages both in terms of rendering and text input. Currently, Devanagari (screenshot), Bengali (bn-2, bn-3, bn-1) and Tamil have been tested but Syriac, Tibetan, Khmer and others are expected to work as well. Dirk Mueller writes: "The KDE Project encourages interested people who understand these languages to submit feedback and help the i18n teams (Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Tibetan, etc) with contributing a fully localized KDE 3.2." These languages require Open Type fonts and a working Xft installation. Read More

In this week's issue of KDE-CVS-Digest, read about the beginnings of a mobile device framework and the reworking of KMail groupware functionality. Also, bug fixes in Kate, KDE Print, Konqueror, KWin, KSpread, Kopete and many others. Read More

Recently, Tim Brodie of Display Works Inc. emailed KDE thanking us for a job well done. Display Works Inc. has been using KDE as their official desktop environment for some time now, and recently migrated to KDE 3.1. I had a chance to ask Mr. Brodie a few questions about Display Works' experience with KDE. Head over to KDE::Enterprise to read the interview. Read More

KDE Traffic #50 has been released. This month it includes information about improvements to bugs.kde.org, KWord patches, OpenOffice filters and a forthcoming PDF import filter. In addition it adds coverage of two more mailing lists: kde-pim and kde-devel. Read More

KOffice developers have added a number of templates to KSpread, while work towards Excel compatibility continues. KStars now has a telescope hardware interface. The KWin and KDesktop fine-tuning continues, as well as the work on implementing freedesktop.org standards. Read it all in the latest KDE-CVS-Digest. Read More

The KFLog Team is proud to announce the latest major release of KFLog. KFLog (screenshots) is a flight analyser program aimed at glider pilots and is the only of its kind for Linux to be recognized by the FAI IGC. Of course, KFLog runs on any KDE platform, not just Linux, and with KFLog/Embedded and Cumulus on Qtopia/Opie, even PDAs are supported. With the introduction of version 2.1.0, KFLog gives glider pilots a powerful tool to plan their flight tasks, analyse their own flights or gawk at the recorded flights filed in the Aerokurier Online Contest. Read More

Kernel Cousin KDE #49 covers the upcoming KDE 3.1.2 release, the new Chilean KDE site, the KDE Developers' Conference, the results of the KOffice icon contest, KRename and much more. Get it from the usual source. Read More

The German edition of Linux Magazin (de) is currently featuring an article (Jan's translation, Google's version) on Umbrello. Umbrello (screenshots) is a UML drawing tool that will be shipped with KDE 3.2 in the coming months. The article gives the user a short introduction to the latest stable version (1.1.1), and also lists some known problems in the current code base. So help us test Umbrello and get rid of those last remaining bugs! Read More

Cavendish informs us that the developer documentation (en) for Qt 3.0 (en) has now been translated to Simplified Chinese. Progress information is available here, and a mailing list is also available for those interested. New: translated Qt OpenGL tutorial. Read More

Karamba (shot1, shot2) is a desktop enhancement, similar to Konfabulator and Samurize, that appeared on KDE-Look.org (looky) about one month ago. Since then, Karamba has become the highest rated project on looky with a surprisingly large number of themes and extensions having been contributed, subsequently leading to a dedicated category for Karamba contributions. We had a little chat with author Hans Karlsson about himself, KDE, Karamba, and the hype surrounding it. Read More