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While waiting for KDE 2.1.1, it might be worth checking out this nice review of KDE 2.1 on Linux Orbit. "With the release of KDE 2.0 on October 23, 2000, the KDE development team upped the ante in the bid for the hearts and minds of GNU/Linux desktop users. With major improvements in features and stability, KDE users couldn't wait for the next version. When KDE 2.1 arrived on February 26, 2001, few were disappointed." Lots of pretty pictures. Read More

There are a number of things that are easy to overlook when working on KDE applications. I've put together a checklist on developer.kde.org to help developers keep track of important items when creating new applications or when making changes to existing ones. You can send me any additions, corrections, or comments. Happy hacking. Read More

For those of you attending CeBIT 2001, a schedule of the KDE presentations is now available. On another note, a somewhat unlikely place where you can next find a KDE developer will be at GUADEC 2001. No other than Matthias Ettrich will be presenting a keynote. Evidently, more is going on behind the scenes such as interoperability talks (SSL) spanning such issues as cross-toolkit configuration (1-SSL, 2-SSL) and a common component model. Stefan Westerfeld will also be present. Martin Heni informs us of a new KDE Games People page. This resource should be useful to people who need help with KDE game issues, or a place for people to advertise skills and willingness to help. Amir Michail wrote in to inform us of CVSSearch II, a major rewrite of CVSSearch, the search tool for code that uses CVS comments. New features include the ability to search across multiple CVS repositories and a completely new GUI with more explicit CVS comment <-> source code mapping. Over the next week, the demo will be expanded to cover hundreds of KDE applications. Finally, in case you missed it, a demo for Kapital, the personal finance manager from theKompany.com, is now available. Read More

We've interviewed Shawn Gordon, President and CEO of theKompany.com, over at Linux.com. Among other things, in this lengthy interview we discuss theKompany's business model, a bit about Eazel and Ximian, their current software, and future plans for Rekall, Kivio, Kapital, and KODE. Read More

Kugar is a business-quality report generator and includes a standalone report viewer and a KPart report viewer. Any KDE application which supports KParts (including the browser Konqueror) thus can embed the report viewing functionality. This is a great addition to the budding KOffice suite. Hats off to theKompany (and Mutiney Bay Software, which started the Kugar project) for donating this great code to the KDE project! Read more about Kugar below. Read More

Stefan Westerfeld recently posted a detailed summary of the KDE 2.2 Multimedia Meeting, held on IRC on March 6. The meeting focused on aRts, the linchpin of the KDE 2 multimedia architecture. Topics covered include threading the aRts server; improved error handling when distributed objects fail; increasing aRts user-friendliness (e.g., useful error messages); compatability with GNOME (e.g., providing a C/CSL interface); improving KMedia2 (noatun, etc.) by removing gaps between files, allowing for streamed input and embedding video inside noatun; making aRts effect GUIs (e.g., Synth_FREEVERB) toolkit-independent; and adding a mixer to aRts (aRts does not currently work with KMix). For the full report, read below. Read More

The wonderful Konqueror/Embedded project, the DCOP bindings for the C language, contributions to Konqueror, KParts (and before that, OpenParts), KHTML and KOffice... all this work is courtesy of Simon Hausmann. Tink needed all her persuasive powers to make Simon submit to this interview for the well known weekly series. Have a thankful thought for her work while you enjoy Simon's answers. Read More

The latest addition to the KDE web family is already a few days old and in search of enthusiastic women coders, writers and designers. The new KDE-Women website has set out to do this and much more. The stated goal of the website: "We want to build an international KDE forum for women by providing a place where women can present what they already contribute to KDE and where women, who want to contribute, find a starting point. But the content on these pages is not only for women but for everybody. By doing this project we actively want to contibute to the success of KDE." At the website you can already find tutorials, a big bag of KDE/Linux tips & tricks, a schedule of events, and more. If you are interested in our project, you can subscribe to the mailing list or simply chat with us on channel #kde-women at irc.kde.org. You can also look forward to meeting some of us at the upcoming events in Germany. Read More

This week in KC KDE, you can read all of 14 topics covering RealPlayer 8 and KDE2 integration, HTML form completion in Konqueror, the new KDE2 scanner library and GUI, SDI vs MDI, kISDN and kppp integration, and more. Go get it here. Read More

I have been in the progress of organising a KDE booth at the Linux Expo in London on the 4th/5th July 2001. I have some more good news in that we will also have a booth at the Linux Expo in Birmingham, at the NEC on 12th/13th September. Read More