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The 3rd Linux Accessibility conference will take place on March 20 to 21 in the La Jolla room of the LAX Marriot. KDE-related activites include an update on the progress of the KDE Accessibility Project and a discussion on KDE accessibility and interoperability. It will coincide with CSUN 2003 (aka CSUN's 18th Annual International Conference: Technology and Persons with Disabilities), a large, long-standing conference held annually on the subject of technology for persons with disabilities. Information about participating via phone is forthcoming. Please email me if you are interested in attending, or participating via phone, so that I can get a headcount. Read More

You already have KNewsTicker and you often hit the popular sites for the latest news. But have you tried Feedster, the RSS search engine? Now, the latest KDE CVS includes support for Feedster in the elegant form of a web shortcut. If you're not familiar with this KDE feature, be sure to read up on Enhanced Browsing (details). It is quite handy, especially in combination with KDE's Run Command (Alt-F2). And if you cannot wait until KDE 3.2, simply download and install this file and start using rss:, blog: and feedster: right away! Read More

This week in KDE-CVS-Digest, our big feature is a review of the status of the KDE HEAD branch. We cover everything from virtual folders in KMail to Konqueror, Kontact and more. Plus, as usual we cover the latest KDE development updates and bugfixes. Read More

CeBIT 2003 kicks off tomorrow and as usual KDE will be present. The KDE team will be showcasing current developments scheduled for KDE 3.2, Rainer Endres will be giving a talk on KDE on the corporate desktop and Martin Konold will be presenting the latest and greatest on the KDE Kolab Groupware Solution. Plus, be sure to check out the Opie Team for synching KDE with PDAs, and feel free to join the key-signing party. Read More

OSNews.com is featuring an interesting three-way interview (5 pages) with KDE's very own Waldo Bastian and Aaron J. Seigo as well as GNOME's Havoc Pennington. An interesting diversity of opinions on various UI and usability issues is presented. "On the Ok/Cancel issue: KDE has implemented things in such a way that allows all KDE applications to have the order of these buttons flipped with a change to a single line of code. It is exactly this sort of brilliant design that allows KDE to be so internally consistent. So the question often comes down to whether or not we should make a change, rather than if we can. Personally I think it is irresponsible to impose personal aesthetics on your users in a seemingly random fashion by disrupting the interface they know without very compelling reasons to do so." Read More

According to a recent story on IDG.net, "A small German institute has become one of the [German] Interior Ministry's first agencies to implement Linux on the desktop, as the government pushes ahead with its ambitious plans to introduce open-source software in the public sector." The test 50-seat rollout was spear-headed by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) in conjunction with several small German IT companies. The thin-client setup reportedly includes KOffice as the office suite. Read More

KDevelop gets more templates, Quanta gets better action toolbars and Umbrello gets new code generators. A dummy KDE 3.2 release schedule. More merges from Safari to KHTML. Plus a large number of bug fixes. Read it all in the latest KDE-CVS-Digest. Read More

LinuxQuestions.org has just announced the results of its 2002 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners. KDE took first place in the category Desktop Environment of the Year with 59.14% of the votes. KDE applications also did very well in virtually every other GUI category. Congratulations to the many talented and dedicated developers whose achievements have been recognized. Read More

The KDE Web Team is proud to present a new and exciting design for the official KDE site! This is the first overhaul of the flagship homepage since Kurt's vastly successful update more than two years ago. The KDE Web Team has maintained a focus on standards-compliance as well as improved the overall usability and accessibility of the site. Also featured prominently is an overhaul of the content as well as the implementation of a whole new design matching the shiny new Keramik/Crystal look from KDE 3.1. Read More

In breaking news, convicted French hacker Philippe Fremy has been accused of spreading malicious rumours regarding an alleged stab at Qt and companion PyQt by the highly regarded IBM developerWorks. But the concerted effort at dragging people's names through the mud does not end there. Emotions ran high when it was noted that the peeps at Slashdot couldn't leave IBM's rumoured courtship of Qtopia alone. Read More