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KDE 2.0 Development, a new book being published under the Open Publication License is now available online, in full, for free, at http://kde20development.andamooka.org/.

The site also holds all of the source code from the examples in the book,
downloadable HTML and PDF versions, an annotated online-only abridged KDE API reference (Appendix B), and an annotated version of the KDE Developer's HOWTO.

Matthias Elter wrote to the KDE core devel mailing list about his progress in getting KDE to play nice with Window Maker and Afterstep "applets", and included some eyecandy to boot. His message follows below.

Based on feedback we've received in the last week we have made some changes to APPS.KDE.com. Most significantly, we have introduced internal frames to replace framesets. This approach works great with Konqueror and IE, but works optimally only with JavaScript enabled; Netscape 4.x does not support internal frames. We have also added the ability to browse categories and conduct searches based on KDE version without having to visit the "Configure" tab. If you have any more suggestions for improving the site, please let us know!

The German Linux solution provider ID-PRO is auctioning a prototype computer for the benefit of a couple of free software projects, including KDE. On the occasion of PAUL's launching during the Systems in Munich, Germany, the prototype of ID-PRO's communication server, shaped like a prism and based solely on Open-Source software, will come under the hammer - signed by several well-known KDE developers, Linus Torvalds and a few others. The bidding started Thursday, 19 October 2000 and ends quite soon!

It's a Qt-extension widget set for MDI that is an alternative to QWorkspace. Compared to QWorkspace, your application is configurable in several modes - MDI like QWorkspace and Unix-like with all windows as toplevel. You can compile QextMDI as a KDE2 extension library, it then bases on KMainWindow and kdeui.so. You can decorate the MDI views with Win9x, KDE1 and default-KDE2 windowmanager style. Take a look here for further info (including screenshots).

The second public beta of Kivio is now available from theKompany.com. Most major distributions are available and so is the source. License is now officially GPL.

theKompany.com is proud to announce the second beta release of Kivio - our premiere flowcharting tool.

The 0.9.1 release features:
- Connector Tool
- Text Tool
- Bug Fixes
- Connections are now saved
- Some small memory optimizations for shapes
- GPL and full source code :)
- binaries and support for more distributions

You can dowload the source code from here: ftp://thekompany.com/pub/kivio/src/kivio-0.9.1.tar.gz and binary packages for your favorite distro from here:
Mandrake 7.2: ftp://thekompany.com/pub/kivio/Mandrake-7.2/
Mandrake Cooker: ftp://thekompany.com/pub/kivio/Mandrake-Cooker/
Slackware 7.1: ftp://thekompany.com/pub/kivio/Slackware-7.1/
RedHat 6.1: ftp://thekompany.com/pub/kivio/RedHat-6.1/
RedHat 7.0: ftp://thekompany.com/pub/kivio/RedHat-7.0/
SuSE 7.0: ftp://thekompany.com/pub/kivio/SuSE-7.0/
Debian Potato: ftp://thekompany.com/pub/kivio/Debian-Potato/
Debian Woody: ftp://thekompany.com/pub/kivio/Debian-Woody/

Here is the list of volunteers who helped us packaging this release:
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>: Debian
Christopher Molnar <molnarc@mandrakesoft.com>: Mandrake 7.2 and Cooker
Michael Koch <koch@kde.org>: SuSE 7.0
A big "Thank you!" to these people for helping us out.

Enjoy Kivio and stay tuned for more cool products from your favorite KDE software developer :).

This week, in The People Behind KDE, Tink interviews Rik Hemsley, who is actively working on Empath, a groupware project much like Outlook for the KDE PIM project. In fact, his claim to fame is that "people seem to know me as the Empath man, but it's not even released yet."

The LinuxJournal has announced the winners of its 2000 Reader's Choice Awards. Not surprisingly <grin> KDE won as the "Favorite Desktop Environment" (1, 2, 3). Congratulations to the KDE Team! I know they appreciate user awards the most. Also, the German on-line magazine Heise has written a glowing review of KDE 2.0. It's in German, so you may need to consult the fish.

Several of you have written in to note that Red Hat 6.2 rpms for KDE 2 are now available here. A full list of KDE 2.0 binaries for the various distributions/versions is below -- if you know of any more please add a comment. Remember, folks, these rpms are not built by the KDE Team. Update: 11/06 10:16 PM. It appears the mirrors have still not picked up the rpms -- here is a direct link to the KDE ftp site.

The KDE Team needs your help with writing documentation for all of the great applications in KDE! This is your opportunity to help KDE become useful to the users of KDE applications at any level. You don't need to be a professional writer, and you don't even need to know everything about a program. For more information, please visit us at the Editorial Team website, or contact Mike McBride if you are interested.