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Read all about it in this feature currently running on LinuxWorld. As we had previously reported, KDE also took the Linux Community Award 2000 at that event -- LinuxWorld have now made available a RealPlayer streaming video of the ceremony. And last, but not least, LinuxWorld talks to our own Matthias Elter in this nice little interview. Very cool! Read More

Breaking news! The KDevelop Team will release version 1.3 of its C/C++ IDE for UNIX within the next couple of weeks. The new release has a lot of new features regarding KDE 2 and Qt 2.2 development, particularly a project file generator which creates a project file out of your existing automake/autoconf project on the fly so you can start working with KDevelop on your former project within seconds. I´ve tried this last night with the kdebase module - and it worked! Read More

Hallelujah! The KDE site has quite a new look! It's been completely redesigned and I like it, thank you very much! But judge for yourself... Is the new layout better? Is the new art better? Are things easier to find? We want to know what you think! I asked Kurt Granroth, the KDE core developer behind the changes, a few questions you might have as well. Read what he had to say below. Read More

In KDE2 related news, ZDNet have reviewed KDE2 and love it. Very much. LinuxToday.com.au like it too, as seen in this article titled after a well-known Australian TV advert. LWN have provided coverage on the KDE2 release here. Trolltech congratulate KDE on the new release here. SuSE Linux have announced their KDE2 update. Speaking of updates, new KDE2 packages for Tru64 with fixes by Tom Leitner can be found here. Read More

To help celebrate the release of KDE2 and Linux-Mandrake 7.2 (which now offers KDE2 as the default desktop), a new set of pages have been posted on the Mandrake website which offer a beginner's tutorial of the KDE2 desktop. Hope you stop by, your comments and suggestions are always welcome. Read More

This week, in The People Behind KDE, Tink interviews Reginald Stadlbauer, hacker extraordinaire originally behind such things as KPresenter and KWord. "I posted to the kde lists, that I'll write a powerpoint clone. As I was new to C++ and Qt/KDE, nobody took me serious (as some people told me later :-) But after some time I had something which was awfull code but worked somehow. So I got a CVS account (although coolo was not sure at that time if this is good idea, as he told me later :-) and got more and more involved into KOffice and KDE." Read More

On Monday, October the 30th, the real-time, multiplayer strategy game Boson will be released in its newest version, 0.5. Although the game's playability is still quite limited, this release represents a major milestone since it now is based on QT 2.2.1 & KDE 2.0 and features many enhancements plus new graphics. The Boson Team hereby invites you to our IRC release party on the date mentioned above at around 1800 GMT on channel #boson in the Open Projects IRC network (i.e. irc.kde.org). If you'd like to learn more about the project or how to help out or simply watch the celebrations, this is the place to drop by! Click here for some Boson eyecandy. Read More

It seems many users have not been overly thrilled with the way the task bars are arranged in the KDE 2 desktop. As is typical, the KDE developers have quickly responded. Matthias Elter wrote in to tell us he has made some nice modifications. Details -- and screenshots -- below. Read More

Stefan Westerfeld has posted a first draft of cool new plans for the new multimedia architecture for KDE2, based on aRts (the "analog realtime synthesizer"). Plans include merging the two existing media players (noatun and kaiman), new media types, infrastructure improvements, improved MIDI and more. The full draft (edited by our own Dre) is attached below. Read More

We will be releasing an update of Kivio early next week that also includes the source. We have been getting a lot of requests for packages for systems that we just don't have access to. We will be creating RPM's for RH 6.2 and 7.0 as well as a DEB by using Alien (DEB packagers are welcome). We will also supply tarballs for Slackware 7.1. If you want to see support for other environments, then please write to us at support@thekompany.com and let us know so we can make them available to everyone. Please note that support for unofficial packages is left up to the packager. Read More