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Featured this week in KDE-CVS-Digest: Continuous improvements to the development tools, with Quanta, Kate and KDevelop getting optimizations and bug fixes, and dcoppython and kjsembed in kdebindings getting some love. Also covered, new and improved filters in KOffice, the large rewrite of Kig is complete, work on new themes and theme engine, info from the new KcmDhcpd maintainer (screenshots), and an exciting new feature in kwireless. Plus, news on the kernel concepts KDE t-shirts (pictures, order information) and more. Get it all right here folks. Read More

George Staikos recently added a fun new feature to Konqueror that sidebar lovers everywhere should appreciate. Those of you running Konqueror from CVS (or a recent enough Mozilla) can go to the Dot's new configure page to add a nifty KDE Dot News side panel to their browser. The rest of you, while waiting for KDE 3.2, can view some screenshots illustrating this feature on: KDE Dot News (shot2), Gnome Desktop News, KDE and GNOME both, CNN.com and National Geographic. Those of you who think this feature is neat will also enjoy the upcoming RSS sidebar news applet (shot1, shot2) by Marcus Camen, Ian Reinhart Geiser (RSS DCOP service) and Frerich Raabe (librss). This plugin, currently available from kdenonbeta, should work with any existing RDF/RSS news source. Thanks to George, Marcus and Ian for supplying the screenshots, on top of these very cool hacks. Read More

Last week, CORBA-lover Michael Meeks released some slides that caused something of a stir amongst some in the KDE community. In his slide, Michael Meeks attempted to make the case for GNOME as the only viable desktop on Unix by directing the heat of his argument at the cost of Trolltech's Qt -- the wonderful cross-platform toolkit on which KDE is based -- for proprietary development. Rising up to the challenge, George Staikos has written a nice article that compares the cost of Qt vs GTK in the real world. Read More

The KDE Web Team would like to announce a competition to design a new logo for the KDE.org website. The prize for the competition is the honour and satisfaction of having your work displayed on KDE.org and its subdomains, with full credit given for each use of the image. The competition will run over the course of a month and closes on April 30th, 2003. Artists are further encouraged to contribute other artwork they feel would improve the look of the website such as icons for the various sidebar sections (namely: Inform, Download, Communicate, Develop, Explore, Search, Hotspot and KDE Family). (Updated) Read More

In this week's version of KDE-CVS-Digest, read about improvements to KBugBuster which now supports most Bugzilla sites (GNOME, Mozilla, Apache, XFree86, Ximian, Red Hat and more) and not just the KDE version of Bugzilla, the introduction of KSplash/ML to KDE CVS, and how KSpread is getting some love in the form of some serious optimizations. Also read about the beginning of the integration of Kafka (WYSIWYG HTML editor) into Quanta, and much more. Read More

Earlier this week, NewsFactor Network spoke to KDE developers Ralf Nolden and David Faure as part of a report on the Linux Desktop. Ralf talks about enterprise features in KDE such as Kiosk mode and desktop sharing (interactive demo), while David covers the KDE Kolab groupware solution and Kontact. Read More

The XFree86 project, one of the major window systems hosting the KDE/Qt platform, released version 4.3.0 almost a month ago. This version incorporates many frequently requested features such as fully graphical mouse cursors with support for shadows and animation (3d.jpg, gold.jpg, tux.jpg), and on-the-fly screen resolution changes (dialog.png, kcontrolmodule.png, notification.png, popup.png). In other news, amidst some criticism regarding XFree86's current development model, the project has gained a much needed public bug tracking system as well as a new forum inviting public comment on the direction of the project. Read More

KDE 3.1.1 released, a WYSIWYG mode for Quanta, many bugfixes in KMail, KWin, Kicker and Konqueror. Read all this and more in the latest issue of KDE-CVS-Digest. Read More

The KDE Project has released KDE 3.1.1, the first maintenance release of the KDE 3.1 release series. It features more and much improved translations and many problem corrections. Read the Changelog or jump directly to the download links. Those of you who wish to compile from source can use Konstruct for near automatic compilation. Read More