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KOffice 1.1.1 Ships
Tuesday, 18 December 2001
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Dre
The KOffice project today announced the release of KOffice 1.1.1.
KOffice is a free, Open Source, integrated office
suite demonstrating the richness and power of the KDE development environment.
The release, out less than
three months after the long-anticipated KOffice 1.1 hit the KDE ftp
servers, mainly improves performance, printing (particularly in
KWord), and stability.
The announcement
contains links to the source and a number of binary packages, as well as
a summary of the changes. A more
detailed
changelog is available at the
KOffice website. The next release will
likely be released shortly after KDE 3.0, sometime in the first quarter of 2002.
Update Tuesday December 18, @11:42 pm: Timothy Butler wrote in to tell us that
Open for Business is running a mini-review of KOffice, and it's readiness for enterprise deployment.
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People of KDE: Arash Zeini
Monday, 17 December 2001
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Inorog
Arash Zeini is from Iran and takes part in translating KDE into Farsi. In his dialog with Tink for this Sunday's column of People behind KDE, Arash demonstrates that KDE helps lower borders, and facilitates friendships and collaboration instead. Here is a tribute to the diligent and efficacious work of the KDE translators.
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Free Software Magazine Launches
Wednesday, 12 December 2001
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Dre
Hong Feng, apparently a
former chief editor with O'Reilly & Associates in Beijing,
is preparing the first issue of the
Free Software
Magazine, a periodical intended to be by and for free software hackers. He is looking for some contributors
to the inaugural issue (slated for January 2002) who can write on
KDE development and/or
Qt/Embedded development (hmmm, an article about
Konqueror Embedded or
KDevelop with its
new cross-compiling support
sounds like a sweet fit). A
number
of articles appear to be in the queue already, and a
preface by
RMS is already online.
Guidelines are available
here. Noteworthy are that you can base a submission on something previously published, so long as you (or someone submitting with you) retain the copyright, and that the submission should be under some Open Publication license. The deadline for submissions is December 20, so now's the time to get involved.
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Kernel Cousin KDE #28
Wednesday, 12 December 2001
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Rkaper
Another Kernel Cousin KDE has arrived! Issue 28 covers mouse gestures in Konq/E, SVG support for KDE, Norwegian verbs, another KDE2+3 howto, and other exciting events in the world of KDE development. KDE 3 Beta1 is on its way, but that doesn't seem to stop developers from coming up with interesting ideas for the future of your favourite desktop!
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Does Your Online Bank Support Konqueror?
Tuesday, 11 December 2001
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Dre
Oliver Strutynski has a mission.
Frustrated by the fact that some online banks discriminate against
Konqueror, he has
announced
a website for promoting
Konqueror to banks. According to the site, "It is the purpose of
this page to collect a list of online banking sites that work with recent
versions of Konqueror or to present work-arounds for using online banking
sites that fail to load correctly on first try".
If you do engage in advocacy with your bank, please keep in mind the
Linux Advocacy
Guidelines (non-Linux'ers, filter the page through
sed -e s'@Linux@MYOS@g'
, and it will address you too). Most countries heavily regulate their banks and thus banks have additional legal obligations and
liabilities in terms of security. This means that providing support for a particular browser may not necessarily be as simple as it would be for a different category of website; however, if enough customers request it . . . .
Read MoreGPL'd Quanta Plus 2.0 is Out
Monday, 10 December 2001
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Numanee
Eric Laffoon reports that the stories of the demise of GPL'd Quanta have been greatly exaggerated, and to prove it, the Quanta Plus developers have released Quanta Plus 2.0. For those of you who don't know yet, Quanta Plus is a popular and rapid web development tool for KDE.
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People of KDE: Adriaan de Groot
Monday, 10 December 2001
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Inorog
Those of you interested in the interoperability of KDE with handheld computers will already be familiar with KDE developer Adriaan de Groot, current maintainer of KPilot, and guest of this week's instalment of the People Behind KDE interviews. Tink and Adriaan provide us with a funny and entertaining dialog, including a rather hilarious picture of Adriaan. Well, it shouldn't surprise anybody that for Adriaan, as for any of us, speaking of KDE proves to be a cheerful and pleasant experience.
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Meet KDE Developers At FOSDEM
Saturday, 8 December 2001
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Pfremy
KDE developers are cordially invited to the Free and Open Source Software Development Meeting (FOSDEM) which is taking place in Brussels on February 16-17, 2002. A dedicated KDE room will be made available for development talks as well as presentations. Developers already confirmed for this mini-KDE event include: David Faure, Laurent Montel (KOffice), Richard Moore, Matthias "Kalle" Dalheimer, Richard Dale, Michael Goffioul, Thomas Capricelli (boson), Mickael Marchand (KVim, KEdit stuff) and probably others such as Jono Bacon, Michael Brade, and Rob Kaper. Unfortunately due to exams, some german developers such as Simon Haussman or Ralph Nolden may have difficulties attending. Addendum: Kristof Borrey (of iKons fame) will also be present. Ian Reinhart Geiser (KDE wizard, also known to dabble with exotic CPU architectures and the weather) won't be there afterall.
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KC KDE #27
Thursday, 6 December 2001
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Dre
Aaron J. Seigo and
Juergen Appel have published the
27th issue of
KC KDE, and this is a good one.
Topics cover certain problems with using Qt-2.3.2, eliminating desktop icons,
preventing dialogs from stealing focus, the new
aRts Linux kernel module,
the new KDE Printing website
(dot
story), and more. Thanks for another
great summary of KDE development activities, Aaron and Juergen!
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KDEPrint Site Goes Live
Wednesday, 5 December 2001
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Numanee
Chris Howells wrote in to inform us of the new KDEPrint site at printing.kde.org. The site is chockful of information including pretty screenshots, a description of new KDEPrint features slated for KDE3, information, presentation, and general documentation including a faq, handbook, and tutorials. But wait, there's more! For no extra cost, you may subscribe to a brand new kde-print mailing list where both users and developers are welcome. So if you have trouble or issues with KDEPrint not already dealt with by the site, feel free to subscribe to that list. Enjoy.
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