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Eric Bischoff today filed a detailed report on the successful conclusion of "the first meeting of the KDE translation and documentation teams". Some excerpts from the report are included below. Read More

The preview release for Kaim has just been posted up on the on the Kaim homepage. Kaim is an AOL instant messenger. Along with having many other features, Kaim's main jewel is its chat window which is fully configurable, functional, and filled with a ton of features. After 6 months in the works the Kaim team is happy to announce this release. Read More

Solomon wrote in to tell us that "The Linux MusicStation currently has a feature article on Anthem, a developing KDE2 MIDI sequencer. They will also be doing an interview with the author next month, so get the questions in." Screenshots here. Anthem is based on the TSE3 open source sequencer engine and is written by Pete Goodliffe. Read More

Well, this is pretty cool. Bumchul Kim has updated his webpage with patches and details on what's needed to make KDE CVS and Qt 2.2.0 work well with the Korean charset. Includes cool screenshots and a patch for an OnTheSpot implementation in Qt. The good news is that a lot of the KDE patches have already made it to CVS. Read More

Last week we reported on the launch of the KDE Games Center. The site designers continue to build the site and it looks to want to satisfy both gamers and developers. Yesterday they added a news section and today launched a "Top 10 KDE Games" section. Bravo, Martin and Andreas! If you're interested in games (and who isn't), maybe you can help out -- a nice "Help Wanted" list can be found here. Read More

The KOffice hack session is over, and Matthias Elter is back with a new KDE2 release schedule. While some of the details are still being discussed (hotly), in essence, RC1 will be released on Monday October 2, and the final tarballs will be created on Monday October 9. The public release will follow on Monday October 16. Note that the next KDE will be named KDE 2.0, contrary to what the announcement says. Woo! Read More

LinuxNews.com is running a story about Kugar, a reporting app we mentioned earlier. There is also an article on All Linux Devices about Qt/Embedded mentioning that some KDE apps are being ported to embedded devices. We also received mention of a very interesting FTP client based on KDE 2: KBear reached its third beta. Read More

LinuxToday.com.au is running a review of <ahttp://www.hszk.bme.hu/~tz124/kaptain/ href="http://www.hszk.bme.hu/~tz124/kaptain/">Kaptain, the universal graphical front-end we mentioned a few articles back. They like it a lot. "Sound ground breaking? It sure is. Kaptain uses .kaptn files, which are simple text scripts edited in any way you choose. The script 'describes the possible arguments for a command line program'. Kaptain then interprets this script, and puts up into your X-windows display a simple Qt-based window with all of your options detailed." Kaptain can be built with KDE2 support as well. Read More

Nicholas Petreley likes KDE2, he loves Konqueror, and he certainly doesn't hold back his praise for Qt and Trolltech. In this article however, he worries about Trolltech's business model and isn't certain the numbers add up. Personally, I wouldn't worry. Read on for why. Read More