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Laurent Rathle wrote in to plug the Kde France site where French speakers can enjoy forums, news, translations of KDE Dot News items as well as KC KDE issues, amongst other resources. Alongst with KDE.org/fr/, KDE French users should be well catered for.

This week in KC KDE, you can read all about the Klingon invasion, CVS Kung-Fu and various Mime Type news. If you're lucky you can enjoy the French, German, and Spanish translations as well. A big thank you to the KC KDE Team.

After a good year of public existence, KPovModeler 0.2 is released. KPovModeler is a full-featured graphical modeler and composer for creating POV-Ray(TM) scenes under KDE 3. It now supports almost the full gamut of POV-Ray 3.1 functionality -- see these nice screenshots. KPovModeler is a new member of the KDE Graphics package, but we are still looking for a documentation writer to join the project.

UltraSPARC 60 with Sun Solaris and Apple iBook G4 PowerPC with Mac OS X -- these are amongst the diverse hardware and OS platforms on which KDE will be presenting its latest achievements to the world this week in Karlsruhe, Germany. Both installations will be running CUPS, to demonstrate how KDE Print can provide a great environment for an enterprise printing solution across different platforms.

Joup notes that the KDE on FreeBSD team is busy readying KDE 3.0.1 packages and is in need of serious testers.

Evan Leibovitch points us to his Banks 'n' Browsers webpage. He surveys 300 banks in 30 countries but needs updates for KDE3. We also reported on this issue a while back.

The Fink project, which "wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source software to Darwin and Mac OS X", has announced the successful port of KDE 3.0.1 to the platform.
The package list for the initial release includes a great part of the KDE core distribution, including Konqueror (screenshot). Importantly, it also includes both KOffice (screenshot) and KDevelop, as well as kio_fish and, you guessed it, the Liquid style. Hopefully they can resolve the linker/libtool issues which are responsible for the rather large size of the binary packages. Nevertheless, a number of Fink project members have reported successfully using KDE on their Mac OS for several weeks. Congratulations to the Fink team!

Kernel Cousin KDE returns from its brief hiatus with two new rewly editors in charge, Juergen Appel and Zack Rusin, and a new team of contributors working directly on the kckde module in CVS. Issue 37 covers everything from the new and exciting KMathCenter (screenshots) to Kopete discussions, Kicker improvements, and a brand new Keramik window decoration (shot1, shot2, shot3). Wooo!

Despite being up to her ears into the moving boxes, Tink managed to publish the last two interviews of this season today. You can learn more about Jason Katz-Brown who recently enriched KDE CVS with Kolf. And about Masaji Takeyama who brings KDE to the masses in Japan. Enjoy!

The KDE (the K Desktop Environment) Project, one of the largest and most successful Open Source projects, will be represented in three separate locations at LinuxTag 2002, being held in Karlsruhe, Germany from June 6-9. In addition, KDE Project members will host several KDE workshops during the event. The KDE Project's primary focus this year will be the latest stable KDE release, KDE 3.0.1, though KDE volunteers will also demonstrate some of the exciting ongoing developments for the next major KDE release, KDE 3.1.

A rather unusual application of the 'Special Printer' feature in KDEPrint has been employed by KDE user Paul Evans for quite some time now. After being asked to write an article about his inventions, he did so, and now finally it has been published on printing.kde.org. Allow yourself to be amazed at the power and flexibility of KPrinter, minus any involvement of dead flattened trees spoiled by ink or black dust particles...