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In the support section of the dev.obliquid.com site, I've added the possibility of searching through KDE .po compendium files. So far I've loaded the Italian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese and German compendiums. This can be of help to translators, since it provides a web interface to search through the many thousands of already translated messages (nearly 200 000). Read More

linmagau.org features an interview with George Staikos (print version) about Qt and the future of KDE and Linux/Unix desktops in general. George contributes to KMail, Konqueror (SSL, Netscape plugins, web sidebar), Xinerama support and KWinTV. Other interview topics include usability, hardware driver support, the feature set of KDE 3.2 including better laptop support and a new wallet system planned by George, and KDE's hardware requirements. In short, worth a read. Read More

This week in the latest KDE-CVS-Digest: KBruch added to KDE-Edu, fixes to KHelpCenter, scripting interface updates for KStars, KMail editing improvements, the beginnings of PostgreSQL support for Kexi. And more. Read More

After Charles' report on Paris Linux Solution 2003, you can now read my own account of the event. The most interesting part is certainly the tea episode with Stallman, arranged by the French KDE team. Read More

There's a story (print version) on linmagau.org reviewing sound quality between Noatun, Kaboodle and XMMS. Not surprisingly, Noatun and Kaboodle come out on top, with the author stating that "I'd recommend the Noatun/Kaboodle solution to most audiophiles and people with decent sound gear." Unfortunately, the author didn't take the time to discover some of the other features and plugins that make Noatun a better all around player. An interesting, if audio-centric, read. Read More

Linux Journal features an interview with Matthias Ettrich, the founder of the KDE desktop environment. Aleksey Dolya interviews Matthias about the process of creating KDE and what he's up to these days. Asked about current popularity of KDE, Matthias answers: "Beyond all expectations, really. We see more and more contributors, more languages, more applications. And we see KDE code move onto other platforms. Recently Apple came up with their new browser for the Macintosh, which they built on top of KHTML and KJS, two of the more important pieces of KDE technology." Matthias is also appearing together with Lars Knoll (and Konqui) in the "Qt3: Signals and Slots" video of Trolltech's video section. Read More

This is the first announcement of the official KDE Developer's Conference 2003! The conference kicks off on Friday the 22nd of August and will take place at the Zamek ("Castle") in <a href="http://trolls.troll.no/ettrich/NoveHrady.pdf"">Nové Hrady (PDF) in the southern part of the Czech Republic in Central Europe. Compared to previous KDE conferences, this one will be bigger, in terms of number of participants, scope and time. We will start with two days of technical talks in at least two parallel tracks, and end with an optional six-days project work and hacking session until the 31st of August. There will be plenty of time for socializing. Read More

KHTML gets table layout fixes. Many KScreensavers bugs have been fixed. KDevelop adds database programming support. Dia, UML and engineering stencils have been added to Kivio. And more... This week's CVS digest is ready to enjoy. Read More

The KDE on Cygwin project, the project to port Qt and KDE to MS Windows, has announced the first beta release of KDE 3.1.1 for Cygwin and Cygwin/XFree86. Currently, both kdelibs and kdebase are ported (screenshot), but of further interest is this in combination with the Cygwin/XFree86 Test Series. The latter combination allows better integration into a Windows desktop with either the rootless (no root window, KWin as window manager, no taskbar entries) or multi-window (no root window, MS Windows as window manager, taskbar entries) modes. Read More