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It's finally official: KDE 2.2beta has been announced. "With this release, KDE is in a great position to deliver a very strong KDE 2.2 release," said Waldo Bastian, the KDE 2.2 release coordinator. "With support for IMAP, the totally new printing framework and improved proxy support, KDE 2.2 will be an excellent foundation for the desktop needs of many businesses." Some other goodies: KMail now can send mails without blocking. Konqueror enhancements include stopping animated GIFs (thank you, thank you!!), "Send File" and "Send Link" options, new file previews and lots of new plugins. Noatun boasts an improved plugin architecture and some new visualization plugins. KWin has Xinerama support. A number of new applications are part of the package, such as KPersonalizer (desktop configuration) and Kooka (scanning). For a longer list, read the announcement (also attached below), and for a really long list of improvements, read the ChangeLog. As always, enjoy, and thanks to the KDE "we never sleep" Team! Read More

This week in KC KDE, Aaron and Rob bring us news about SOAP and DCOP, KMonop vs Capitalist, a new Cervisia KPart (2), print services integration into Konqueror, the KDE CVS Geek of the Week (you may now use PrintScreen for those KDE snapshots), and more. Read More

The KDE source code is now available under the LXR system, courtesy of our friends at nadmm.com. Users and developers may now browse the KDE source code complete with cross-references, which should prove extremely useful. For those of you wondering about the difference between lxr.kde.org and webcvs.kde.org, read on for an explanation from Kurt. Read More

Kent Nguyen has written a very nice and entertaining review of KWord (dot mirror available) as part of a more extensive KOffice examination. With the help of an alter-ego or two, as well as some editorial guidance from Tina of Newsforge, Kent covers everything from KWord frames to component embedding and groupware features, with more than a few illustrative screenshots. Over the next few weeks, look forward to Kent's reviews of KSpread, KIllu, KPresenter, Kivio, and Krayon. Read More

Yesterday I started putting together a list of operating systems/distributions and architectures on which KDE 2.x compiles and runs. It is far from complete but already lists three BSDs, eight Linuxes and four other Unices, as well as nine architectures. If you know of a system that is not listed, please help us complete the list. Instructions for contributing are here. Read More

KOffice 1.1beta3 has been announced. Although only a beta, this version should be more stable and feature-complete than previous versions of KOffice. A changelog versus KOffice 1.0 is available as well as an incremental changelog since the last beta. Changes include DCOP scripting enhancements, KGhostview integration, many KWord improvements, and various tweaks and polish. Binary and source packages are available here. (As usual, kudos go to Dre for putting together our nice announcement.) Read More

Trolltech, creators of the excellent cross-platform GUI library Qt on which KDE is based, announced today a new license for Qt/Windows. Called the Qt Non Commercial license version 1.0, it permits developers of non-commerical software to develop with and distribute the Windows version of Qt for free. The Qt Non Commercial Edition for Microsoft Windows is a binary-only distribution and requires Microsoft Visual Studio version 6 (download, FAQ). Excellent news, but when will we see kdelibs and Konqueror for Windows? Read More

The moment has come for the last two interviews Tink has prepared for us before the great summer break. The first interview features the KDE veteran Martin Jones, whose brain children wander daily on the screens of our KDE boxes, in the form of screensavers. You might also be enjoying his adorable little toy dubbed AMOR. Martin also speaks to us about his family and his passion for Qt/Embedded. Enjoy! Read More

Long time follower and developer Michael Goffioul is our final guest on the People Behind KDE before the summer break. Michael is the one responsible for a very important new feature of KDE 2.2: the printing system. Thank you, Michael, for tackling this thorny issue. Read More