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For those of you who like to stay on the bleeding edge, Rik Hemsley announced that he's officially checked in an 'audiocd:' kioslave. Provided you have the cdparanoia libraries installed, this will allow you to browse your audio CDs in Konqueror, and convert audio tracks (with error correction!) to wav format by simply dragging them to your desktop. Great stuff! Hooks for CDDB support have been included, but the actual code has yet to be written. Read More

David Faure, the new KDE release coordinator, has set forth the release schedule for KDE 2.0.1, a bugfix and translation release, and KDE 2.1. KDE 2.0.1 should be available on December 4, and the first KDE 2.1 beta two weeks later on December 18 (in time to test it out over the Holidays!). Jaldhar told us about a new Debian mailing list for Debian KDE users and package maintainers; subscribe at debian-kde-request@lists.debian.org with the word "subscribe" in the body of the message. David Huff points to a new section at CafePress.com where you can buy KDE shirts, mugs and mousepads, with all profits promised to the KDE project. Caveat emptor. Read More

Chris Schlaeger, one of the two core KDE developers most active in the formation of the KDE League, has written a tome explaining the motivation behind creating the League and why it was done in secret. What it all boils down to: have fun and spread the code! Read More

There's no possibly better way to present Lars to KDE fans than this: "please, meet Lars KHTML...errr! Lars Knoll". Our ever-resourceful Tink brings into near-view one of the legendary developers of the most powerful and most modern Free Software HTML rendering widget in existence. You're our guest into this new episode of People Behind KDE. Read More

John Califf wrote in to tell us that, "Krayon (also known as Kimageshop) is alive and well and under active development now." Read below about the status of this important KOffice component. Has anyone used it lately? What features are most important to add/get working before Krayon is distributed with KOffice? Read More

Linux Journal´s editorial Board announced recently the list of winners for the second annual LJ´s Editor Choice Award. KDE wins the Best Desktop Environment category. Notice that this is different from LJ´s Reader Choice Award that KDE won earlier this year. Congratulations to the KDE community and many many thanks to Linux Journal, for the high quality tribune they produce for us and for this new award. Read More

I'm in the process of improving the Kasbar taskbar replacement, and as there seems to be a fair degree of interest I thought I'd outline what I've done so far and my plans. My first aim (which I have nearly achieved) was to ensure that Kasbar had all the features of the standard taskbar, but I have quite a bit more in mind... Read More

The KDE Team today announced its collaboration with industry leaders to form the KDE League. The League will focus on facilitating the promotion, distribution and development of KDE, with the goal of establishing KDE as a desktop standard for PCs, workstations and mobile devices. The League will not be involved in KDE development. The League will be holding a press conference at 2:00 pm Las Vegas (PST) time on Wednesday, November 15, 2000, in Room B in the media tent in the silver lot of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). This is great news for KDE -- finally the marketing support that will help people learn about the technical excellence of KDE, without any changes in the KDE development model! The full press release follows. Read More

Our interviewer-in-chief, Tink, comes back this week with her entertaining suite of questions, this time answered by Sandy Meier, member of the KDevelop creators team. Go learn about Sandy's human profile and don't forget to visit his project's web page. Who knows, maybe you decide you'd like to become part of that wonderful team. Read More

Lenny wrote in to point us to this interesting article on writing games with QCanvas. Nice, easy, and includes example source code. All six pages can be loaded in the printer-friendly version here. In Qt/Embedded news, Trolltech has announced version 2.2.2, and even more exciting a new Qt Palmtop Environment available for download under the GPL. It will be interesting to see if a KDE-enhanced version is feasible -- imagine running KDE on a Linux PC without X. For more Qt/Embedded buzz, also see this article on Lineo and Trolltech. Read More