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Amir Michail, creator of the CodeWeb data mining tool, is back with CVSSearch, a tool that searches for code fragments using CVS comments. It will eventually index over 350 KDE applications and promises to be very useful. Send your kudos and comments here. In other developer news, theKompany.com has announced KDE Studio Gold, a commercial release of KDE Studio (licensed under the GPL) following the hugely popular "vanilla" edition with several features and additions for professional KDE development. See the webpage for more details and for the limited time discount. Victor Röder wrote us that KSourcerer.org needs your help and support. The site has been rewritten in PHP, but both technical and content contributions are needed to get this site going.
Developers fiddling with XML and DOM might want to check out a previous article on zez.org: about code covering Parsing XML with Qt's DOM classes. Special thanks to Paul K Egell-Johnsen for having submitted this cool little item last year. ;-) Finally, if you're craving a little eye-candy, check out this screenshot submitted by Christophe Prud'homme. It features the new about:konqueror (although the latest version has already been improved), knewsticker, licq with KDE integration, the XMMS dock status app, the kpilot daemon and the korganizer daemon; it uses the KDevHP theme. Surely someone can do better? ;-) Read More

Sometimes wise men say that the quest for speed and comfort drives the humankind away from its cultural vocation. The time might have come, thanks to the free software credo, to reconcile our quest for technology and our thurst of culture. Wolfram Diestel is one of the people that work towards this goal. Wolfram is Tink's guest this week, and he presents his work on esperanto translations of KDE. Go read the interview at KDE people's page. Read More

Good news from theKompany.com keeps pouring in. As several of you have pointed out, the first beta of Aethera has been announced. In case you haven't been following, Aethera is theKompany's fork of the greatly hyped/anticipated Magellan project. Beta 1 of Aethera sports POP3, SMTP, HTML, DnD, a contacts interface, sticky notes, and more. IMAP, Calendar support, etc are promised for the next beta. There is no mention of the license although source is available from the website -- most of the source files seem to be under the BSD license. For more details on Aethera, Kevin Reichard also points us to this favorable review on LinuxPlanet by Dennis E. Powell. Be sure to check out the screenshots as well. Read More

KDE.com has announced it will provide a convenient service to all KDE developers who, for whatever reason, have not been able to compile KDE documentation properly or who do not want to go through the hassle of installing all of the necessary packages to compile KDE .dockbook files. Simply visit the KDE.com DocBook Documentation Generator, create an account (if you don't already have one for KDE.com or APPS.KDE.com), upload your index.docbook file (requires a browser such as Konqueror supporting the 'file' input method) and in a few minutes the generated HTML will be available for download. Enjoy! Read More

TheKompany has just released kivio-0.9.2. Kivio is now officially part of KOffice, and the code is in the KOffice CVS as well as links on www.koffice.org. New features include printing, right-mouse-button menus on more tools, double clicking a stencil now puts you in text-edit mode, size and position actions have been moved off the toolbar and into a dock-window, snap to grid is now implemented, better zooming abilities, birds-eye-view of canvas, a zoom manager, and various bug fixes. Read More

Many agree that one of the greatest strengths of KDE is the professional quality of the user interface translations and localization. In this week's People Behind KDE, Tink presents to us Gregory Mokhin, member of the Russian KDE translation team. With charm and a subtle sense of humor, Grisha speaks about his work and life. Many thanks to Tink for another fascinating piece of KDE life Read More

We are proud to announce the first Open Source and Free Developers' European Meeting featuring Fyodor, Jeremy Allison, Richard Stallman, Kevin Lawton, Phil Thomson, Rasmus Lerdorf and more. David Faure will be offering a KDE presentation. Read More

A KDE accessibility mailing list has been created. We hope the mailing list will be the starting point for a subproject of KDE, possibly named Access KDE, that will be dedicated to making the entire desktop environment accessible. The mailing list will serve as a forum for those who want to further KDE's accessibility to disabled users (e.g., visually impaired or low-vision individuals). Those interested are strongly encouraged to subscribe. Read More

David Faure, the KDE release coordinator, has posted the KDE 2.1 release schedule. The summary: KDE 2.1beta2 is scheduled for release on January 29, and KDE 2.1 is scheduled for release on February 12, 2001. Read the post below. Read More

[Ed: This article was submitted about a month ago but got lost in the queue.]
Project Ocularis is pleased to announce the Linux Accessibility Conference -- join us for our workgroup on KDE, and more, on March 22-23, 2001, Los Angeles Airport, Hilton Hotel, Plaza D. Please read on for more details. Read More