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Is the 3.1 the ultimate in KDE? The end of development? Judging by the 2000 or so commits this week, it wouldn't appear so. Some of the less trivial fixes from Apple are getting applied to Konqueror. The user interface continues to be refined. The KDE PIM project and all of its individual parts are a beehive of activity. Utilities such as K3b and CD Bake Oven are being actively worked on. Read all about it in this week's KDE-CVS-Digest. I'm already impatient for 3.2! Read More

C|Net has published a story about the recent release of KDE 3.1, with a focus on the Kroupware project. Other new features particularly beneficial for those considering rolling KDE out in an enterprise setting are mentioned as well, including remote desktop administration, KDE's kiosk framework and the KHTML improvements that made their way into KDE as result of the cooperation with Apple. Read More

The KDE Project today announced the release of KDE 3.1, "a major feature upgrade to the third generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for Linux and other UNIXes." While you are busy downloading the new packages for this fabulous release, we hope you will enjoy the über-cool (disclaimer: I wrote it) KDE 3.1 Feature Guide, as well as a sortable KDE 3.1 Requirements page, both new for this release. And if that's not enough, you can also check out the detailed ChangeLog. And - ah yes - there are also screenshots. So much to do today . . . . Read More

There are a lot of KDE developers out there that are students, inbetween jobs or otherwise deprived of monetary resources. Many of these folks overwork their underpowered computing setups to help bring you an outstanding Open Source desktop. There are also appreciative users that are willing to donate obsolete hardware to help the KDE project. In order to bring both parties together and thereby increase the productivity of these KDE developers, I have started the KDE Adopt-a-Geek program. If this sounds interesting to you -- either as a developer or donor -- don't hesitate to contact me. Read More

On the first weekend of 2003, Intevation, along with the other companies participating in the Kroupware project, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult and Erfrakon organized and sponsored a KDE PIM Hackfest in Osnabrück, Germany. The main purpose was to define a roadmap on the future of personal information management in KDE. Berndhard Reiter from Intevation wrote down a nice summary (included below) for your convenience. Thanks goes to the companies involved for making this meeting possible, and the developers involved for their participation. Read More

The latest KDE CVS Digest is now available. In this week's news, Kaplan is reborn as Kontact (a personal information management application for KDE that integrates KMail, KAddressBook, KOrganizer and other applications), KMail is moved, and a new VCard parser makes an appearance. Also read about KHTML's continued improvements, thanks to the Apple Safari contributions, and improvements in the KOffice filters. A number of new applications were also added to the CVS repository. Read More

Lukáš Tinkl, the new KOffice release coordinator, has posted the first version of the KOffice 1.3 release schedule and asked for feedback. According to it the release cycle begins with Beta 1 in April and ends with the final release in early September 2003. Among the many targeted features are hyphenation support for KWord and Presenter, over 100 new formulas for KSpread and much improved filters (development status). Karbon14 will finally replace Kontour. Kexi, a database frontend and administration tool, will join. Kugar and Kugar Designer are redesigned for the KOffice architecture. And last but not least, both KFormula and Kivio have found new maintainers. Read More

tinyminds.org is featuring an interview with Shamyl Zakariya on the development of SlicKer, an alternative to KDE's Kicker panel. "SlicKer intends to provide similar functionality [as Kicker], but in a more modular, task based kind of approach; one "card" per logical function. There will be a kmenu card, a taskbar card, a system tray etc card, and so on." Conceptual drawings and a first actual screenshot are available. "I can honestly say that I'll be releasing an alpha for CardDesk in a month or two. When I say alpha, I mean feature complete, but not necessarily API stable or for that matter, stable (as in, not crashing)". Read More

Newsforge is featuring a side-by-side comparison of the free GPL Quanta+ and the commercial Quanta Gold from theKompany HTML editors. Both projects were born from the same code-base but have gradually diverged in presentation and features over time. This review, which gives a nice overview praising features and listing shortcomings, concludes with "If you use Quanta Plus or Quanta Gold you can't help but be pleased" as verdict. Read More

This week's issue of KDE-CVS-Digest contains news about VFolder support in KDE, more Apple updates in Konqueror, and security fixes. Also in this issue: commits to Kaplan are flowing in, the KMail merges from the different branches are finally coming together and much more. Enjoy. Read More