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More Quickies
Thursday, 26 October 2000
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Numanee
BestLinux have announced Release 3 of their distribution, proudly featuring KDE 2.0.
NewsForge offers some enthusiastic commentary on KDE2. ZDNet picked up the press release as well, although with a few harmless inaccuracies. Victor Röder informed us that KSourcerer.org is up again, courtesy Pingworks IT Consulting. Neil Stevens wrote us with a simple message: Instead of flooding channel #kde on irc.kde.org with support requests, please use #kde-users instead. The less noise on #kde, the better for the developers and in the end everyone wins.
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Open Content KDE Developer's Book
Thursday, 26 October 2000
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Dsweet
A book called KDE 2.0
Development will be available online and in print starting in
early November. Until then you can find prerelease versions of a KParts
chapter by David Faure and an abridged KDE API
reference on Andamooka.
The book will be published under the Open Publication License.
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KDE 2.0 Enters FreeBSD Ports
Wednesday, 25 October 2000
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Grussell
KDE 2.0 final is now available from the ports tree. Use cvsup to sync your ports tree with the master site, and then enjoy KDE 2 with
cd /usr/ports/x11/kde2 ; make install
as root. Finally, a KDE more recent than 1.94. Only thing that seems missing is kdepim. Hopefully this also fixes the compilation problem leading to an unusable khtml on FreeBSD. See
FreshPorts for more details. Enjoy. ;-)
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LinuxPlanet: A Look at KDE2
Wednesday, 25 October 2000
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Numanee
LinuxPlanet is the first one out with a closer look at KDE 2.0. "For years we've many of us made excuses for our Linux desktops. They did what we wanted, and what we wanted that they didn't do we learned to live without in order to take advantage of the robustness of the underlying operating system. But with KDE2 we no longer have to apologize for our desktops. Even with that annoying menu bug, KDE2 is the best desktop I've ever used on any platform." The bug that Dennis refers to was fixed a while back, and thankfully does not occur in the default KDE2 config. Update 10/26 9:20 AM by N: This bug is actually not present in the final KDE 2.0, it was found and squashed before the final release.
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Tool support for porting KDE 1.1.2 apps to KDE 2.0
Wednesday, 25 October 2000
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Amichail
The CodeWeb tool, now GPL'ed, provides guidance in porting applications from KDE 1.1.2
to KDE 2. It works by data mining the
differences in core library usage among
applications that come in the main distribution.
In addition, CodeWeb continues to demonstrate
typical library usage much like
KDE tutorials using "reuse patterns" and real-life code as examples of those patterns. See the CodeWeb page at SourceForge for a demo and documentation.
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Trolltech releases localization tool
Wednesday, 25 October 2000
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Hetz
Trolltech has released a preview version of Qt Linguist - an application translation system under the open source BSD license.
"Qt Linguist, localization tool, allows users to seamlessly convert Qt-based programs from one language to another, simply and intelligently. Qt Linguist helps with the translation of all visible text in a program, to and from any language supported by Unicode and the target platforms. A key feature in Qt Linguist is a specialized editing tool, with many features to help the translators be more productive and get better results."
Read MoreKDE 2.0 is Out!
Tuesday, 24 October 2000
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Dre
People Behind KDE: Claudiu Costin
Monday, 23 October 2000
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Numanee
This week's edition of The People Behind KDE features an interview with Claudiu Costin of the Romanian translation team. "In March 1999, I obtained KDE-1.1.1 and I hugely liked it, especially the idea that I had the code and I was able to change it to my will. When I saw how easy I could modify visible strings thus being able to do translations, I started to translate KPackage 1.2. Toivo Pedaste encouraged me a lot and so the translation of documentation followed." Thanks goes to Tink as usual for conducting the interview.
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Python Bindings and Scripting for KDE Updated
Saturday, 21 October 2000
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Sgordon
theKompany.com is pleased to announce the release of VeePee v1.0 and SIP/PyQt/PyKDE version 2.1. VeePee is the Python-based scripting environment for KDE, and SIP/PyQt/PyKDE are the Python bindings for Qt and KDE. These updates are to support Python 2.0 as well as numerous feature additions and some bug fixes. The VeePee page now contains screenshots for your enjoyment.
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Slew of Quickies
Saturday, 21 October 2000
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Numanee
VoteZone is running an interesting review of KDE2 and this comment on Konqueror. The review is fairly positive and has several good points, including the criticism levelled at the current Control Center layout.
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