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Have you ever wondered how to export your appointments from Microsoft Outlook and re-import them in KDE's KOrganizer? The second KOrganizer workshop (de) covers Randy Pearson's Outlook2VCal tool in fully illustrated detail. For more information on the KOrganizer workshop series click here. Good work, Klaus! Read More

The Register is running a short tutorial on everyone's favorite obsession: getting fonts to look their best. Included are instructions for re-compiling the FreeType engine to get an optimal look, something distributions often fail to do due to potential licensing problems. Another interesting thing I learned from the article: although MS has removed the web fonts from their servers, apparently the original license permitted unlimited non-commercial redistribution in unaltered form, and hence a SourceForge project has sprung up which provides the fonts and instructions for installing them. All-in-all, a worthwhile read for font aficionados. Read More

Kernel Cousin KDE is back! Issue #44 is now up, featuring everything from a summary of KMail developments to Qt GStreamer bindings, Kopete news and much more. Grab it here. Read More

Ismail Donmez wrote in to point out that ZDNet UK is featuring a nice article on the upcoming KDE 3.1. The article is based on Dre's excellent teaser preview, and despite one or two slight inaccuracies, provides some very nice publicity for KDE aimed at the general computing public. Read More

Most of you dot readers already know what KDE 3.1 will be about (3.1beta2 story, 3.1beta1 story, 3.1alpha1 story). For the rest of you, you can find a little teaser preview, complete with some screenshots, at promo.kde.org. Enjoy! Update Saturday 19/Oct/2002, @16:17: ZDNet UK has published the story New KDE to arrive with Halloween eye candy based on the preview. Thanks to them for helping get the word out! Read More

Linux Journal has announced the winners of its 2002 (8th Annual) Readers' Choice Awards. According to Linux Journal, [a]lmost 6,000 Linux Journal readers visited the Linux Journal web site and voted on their top choices in 25 categories. KDE took the honors in the Favorite Desktop Environment category, and KMail in the Favorite E-mail Client category. Grab the November 2002 Linux Journal issue (#103) from your nearest newsstand to read more. Read More

After struggling for three weeks with a series of hardware anomalies (traced after much effort to a bad bit in a memory module) and a taxing OS / software upgrade (as well as with some time-consuming but unrelated issues), APPS.KDE.com, www.KDE.com, LISTS.KDE.com (which among other things provides the dot's mailing lists), PROMO.KDE.org and www.KDELeague.org are finally back online. Service on the KDE.com sites may be spotty in the coming week as some kinks in the OS and various software upgrades are worked out, but the most important things appear to be working smoothly already. Please contribute any recent releases of KDE or Qt software to the Appsy database to ensure it remains comprehensive, and please be patient while application updates proceed in first-in, first-out order. If you find areas of any of the sites that do not yet work as expected, please let me know. Read More

The KDevelop team would like to announce the availability of KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 1 (also known as Gideon). This represents a complete redesign of KDevelop and includes tons of new features, and a new interface. Available through KDE ftp mirrors, the KDevelop web site and CVS, Gideon brings out the best in what an Integrated Development Environment should be. Users of KDevelop 2.x will notice substantial improvements, while new users will be amazed at the flexibility and extensibility put into this program. Improvements include: pluggable parts, rewritten Automake/Makefile.am support, support for more programming languages (Java, C, PHP, Perl, etc.), better code completion support, source code control integration, and more! Users wishing to experiment with these new features are encouraged to download this version and report bugs. Of course, the team is always looking for help. Screenshots: (1,2,3). Read More

The KDE Project today announced the release of KDE 3.0.4. Besides a number of usability and stability enhancements, it provides two important security corrections. The first corrects the file sharing program KPF, which since KDE 3.0.1 has permitted a remote user to retrieve any file readable by the user running KPF (security advisory). The second corrects the PostScript^® / PDF viewer KGhostView, which since KDE 1.1 permits carefully-crafted PostScript and PDF files to execute arbitrary code (security advisory). If you cannot upgrade to KDE 3.0.4, which is strongly recommended, you should immediately stop using both KPF and KGhostView. Read More

The Quanta team is pleased to announce the availability of Quanta 3. Quanta has been transforming from a basic HTML editor to an extremely competent and flexible tagging and scripting editor. Quanta 3 supports XHTML, XML dialects, XSLT and more. Since adding these DTDs takes only XML skills, the upcoming version 3.1 will feature even more languages. We will be making a language/dialect installer too. Inside 3.0 you'll find drag and drop templates, auto-completion for any installed language, now including PHP variables, and a structure tree that introduces modes. There's too much to list here so have a look at our full announcement. Quanta 3.1 will be released with KDE 3.1 too so it's coming very soon. Also there are more updates to our site including in depth explanations of how your donations impact the project. Also we have new links up to where our sponsor is selling Quanta Promotional items and donating all profits to the project. These are a lot of fun! We will also be introducing tutorials soon on using actions and building and using script dialogs with the upcoming Kommander. We want to extend our best to our users and we hope you find your requests fulfilled in your next download. Read More