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Skanning with Kooka
Thursday, 21 December 2000
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Dre
Torsten Rahn is ebullient about a
KDE program for scanning using
SANE called
Kooka.
"This is a real
nice productivity-app proving that it's easy to create extremely useful
apps for KDE 2 with relatively little work."
Details below.
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KDE 2.1 Beta1 Released
Sunday, 17 December 2000
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Melter
The KDE Team today announced the release of KDE 2.1-beta1. KDE 2.1 constitutes the second major release of the KDE 2 series.
The full announcement is available here.
KDE 2.1-beta1 offers a number of additions, enhancements and fixes over KDE 2.0.1, the last stable KDE release which shipped on December 5, 2000. The major additions are:
- A new and much-anticipated theme manager has been added, and many icons have been improved. In addition, semi-transparency (alpha-blending) has been implemented on small images and icons.
- Pixie, an image viewer/editor, has been added to the Graphics package.
- KDevelop, a C/C++ integrated development environment, has been added to the core KDE distribution. The version being shipped, 1.4beta, is the first version of KDevelop to make use of the KDE 2 libraries and integrate completely with the KDE 2 desktop.
- Konqueror, the KDE 2 file manager, can now be configured to provide thumbnail previews for text and HTML files. In addition, the standards-compliant Konqueror now stores bookmarks using the standard XBEL bookmark format; a new bookmark editor complements the new standard. Finally, auto-proxy configuration has been implemented.
- KHTML, the HTML widget, now has a special 'transitional mode' which greatly improves its handling of malformed HTML pages. In additon, KHTML now has greatly improved Java support and has added support for Java security (JDK 1.2 or compatible is now required).
- The panel (Kicker) has enjoyed significant improvements. An external taskbar has been included (familiar to KDE 1 users), support for sub-panels has been added (which can be separately sized and positioned), an improved external pager (Kasbar) has been added, and support for applets has been improved (including support for WindowMaker dock applets).
- ARts, the KDE 2 multimedia architecture, now offers a control module to configure sampling rate and output devices, increased performance, improved user interfaces and a number of additional effects and filters.
- For developers, a number of classes have been added to the core libraries, including a class for undo/redo support (KCommand) and a class for editing list boxes (KEditListBox).
Qt 2.2.3 Released
Sunday, 17 December 2000
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Melter
Our friends at TrollTech have announced Qt 2.2.3. Qt 2.2.3 is a bugfix release. It keeps both forward and backward compatibility (source and binary) with Qt 2.2.2. For details, read the announcement and see the change summary.
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People of KDE: Luigi Genoni
Saturday, 16 December 2000
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Inorog
Luigi Genoni is this week's guest in the People section in the KDE website. With this new interview Tink offers us a refreshing postcard from the Italian Alps. Luigi is interested in developing for KDE from the point of view of a system administrator. And he also gives us a hint about the joy of celebrating Christmas in long lasting Italy.
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KDE Gets Digital Camera Support
Thursday, 14 December 2000
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Dre
theKompany.com has just released a patch to the well known digital camera application gPhoto2, which allows it to integrate seemlessly with KDE 2. This means you can now access the wide range of supported cameras (over 100 models) from any KDE 2 application. Now I may finally be ready to buy a digital camera! Update: 12/14 10:46 AM. TheKompany.com has posted a screenshot of the KControl module and of Konqueror browsing pictures.
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HTML Thumbnail Previews in Konqueror
Monday, 11 December 2000
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Dre
KDevelop 1.3 Released
Monday, 11 December 2000
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Dre
KDevelop 1.3 is out. From the press release: "The KDevelop Team today announced the release ofKDevelop 1.3, a powerful, easy to use, Integrated Development Environment for
the C and C++ Programming Language based on KDE. KDevelop 1.3 is a major
update release that follows the successful versions 1.1 and 1.2 to enable
developers for rapid application development for the new KDE 2.0 Desktop.". The full release is below.
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Extended WM Specification ready
Sunday, 10 December 2000
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Inorog
Encouraging news come from the X Desktop Group. Havoc Pennington, founder of the group and free software visionary, announced the release of the version 1.0 of the Extended Window Manager Specification.
Matthias Ettrich of KDE and Hugh Bradley of Trolltech fruitfully participated to the work of this project. Thanks to them, KDE provides a first, proof of concept, full implementation of the spec. Chances are you're using their work on this topic right now, as the window manager of KDE-2, KWin, is 100% compliant.
The release of this specification is an important event. There is now a real chance that applications will be offered with the same functionality at the level of the interface with the windowing system, no matter which desktop environment the user employs.
Many thanks from the KDE project to all the participants in the WMSpec creation.
kde.themes.org Needs Your Help!
Sunday, 10 December 2000
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KdeFan
Have you noticed that kde.themes.org has not been as active as everything else in the kde world? Apparently, they need some help to maintain the site. If you have "intimate knowledge of the KDE theme system" then you may be the person for the job. If you're interested, email cjr and ElCoronel.
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Linux.org interviews David Faure
Saturday, 9 December 2000
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Rmoore
Linux.org has interviewed David Faure. David talks about KDE 2, Konqueror and the future of KDE and Linux. This is a nice reading.