KDE Archive

KOffice 1.5 Released

Submitted by Mitarai 2006-04-11 KDE 56 Comments

"The KOffice team is proud to announce KOffice version 1.5. With this release, KOffice starts its ascent into the office suite hall of fame. This version sports OpenDocument as the default file format, accessibility, a new project planning tool KPlato, professional color support and adjustment layers in Krita and the long awaited Kexi 1.0. You can read more about it in the press release and the full announcement. Packages are available for Kubuntu and SUSE."

KDE 3: All About the Apps

Thom Holwerda 2006-04-11 KDE 7 Comments

"Last November, KDE 3.5.0 was released. Since then, many users have been waiting for the next big steps. While most of the core developers are working on the first iterations of KDE 4, the KDE 3 developer platform is more vital than ever, resulting in new and exciting applications. 'All About the Apps' puts the spotlight on the classics of KDE's applications as well as new and promising applications from the KDE community that can make your KDE desktop more productive. We will also keep you informed about development in current KDE 3.5 series."

KDE Look and Feel for Java

Submitted by Sekou DIAKITE 2006-04-11 KDE 33 Comments

The KDE Look and Feel Project is a GPL-licenced Swing pluggable look and feel which uses Qt and KDE for the drawing of widgets. KDE Look and Feel implements most of the Java Look and Feel API including dialogs (ColorChooser, FileChooser, etc.).

KOffice 1.5-RC1 Released

Submitted by anonymous 2006-03-30 KDE 5 Comments

The KOffice team is proud to announce the release candidate of KOffice 1.5. Read the full announcement, the changelog, and download the release. In this release, the OASIS OpenDocument support is improved even more, especially in KChart. Krita has gotten faster and more stable and KFormula has a new maintainer who has really come up to speed quickly. Across the board all applications have been improved and polished. Or so they say, in any case.

Submitted by lucabotti 2006-03-28 KDE 13 Comments

The KDE team has announced the release of KDE 3.5.2, a maintenance release of the 3.5 series which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and greatly enhanced support for existing translations and new translations. For more details, check the changelog. Binary packages for some distributions are available, and the sources are too, obviously.

Koffice 1.5 Beta 2 Released

Thom Holwerda 2006-03-14 KDE 32 Comments

Better late than never: "With more than 1500 improvements since the first beta release of the 1.5 series, the KOffice developers invite the user community for the final round of testing of KOffice 1.5 before the first release candidate. Read the full announcement, the changelog, download the release, and give it some real world testing for us!"

People Behind KDE: Boudewijn Rempt

Thom Holwerda 2006-03-05 KDE 12 Comments

"Tonight's People Behind KDE interview is with the author of the most active program in KDE, Krita. Not only has he made the premier free software painting application he has also added the vital vertical-maximise feature to KWin. Find out what the most inspirational thing is for a hacker fixing his bugs in our interview with Boudewijn Rempt."

SimpleKDE: Cut-Down KDE

Thom Holwerda 2006-03-03 KDE 67 Comments

The ModdingDen has an interview with the lead developer of SimpleKDE, a cut-down, lightweight version of KDE. "The main reason is that we find KDE too cluttered and too bloated; and we want something faster, more simplistic and easier to use. Honestly, I'm pretty happy with my own KDE installation, but I especially observe beginners having difficulty in adapting themselves to it." The interview dates 9th January 2006, but since we never covered SimpleKDE on OSNews, it's interesting nonetheless. Read more about SimpleKDE at their website. And yes, boys and girls, there are screenshots too.

KDE at FOSDEM 2006

Thom Holwerda 2006-02-27 KDE 5 Comments

Last weekend, the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting took place in Brussels. KDE was present there with a lot of developers, a devroom and several interesting talks. Among the speakers were Jonathan Riddell from the Kubuntu distribution, Sebastian Kuegler from KDE's Marketing Working Group, Bart Coppens from the Krita development team, and Raphael Langerhorst and Sander Koning from the KOffice teams.

Submitted by Mitarai 2006-02-23 KDE 42 Comments

"The KDE desktop of SUSE Linux 10.1 (and the future enterprise products built on it) will contain a KDE frontend for Beagle called Kerry. For this Beagle has been split into non-GUI and GUI parts, some backends are now in sub-packages (Evolution, Firefox) and the libbeagle API has been improved in parts. Besides generic file indexing Beagle already contains backends written by Debajyoti Bera and others for KMail, Kopete, and Konqueror's web history cache."

KDE 4 Developers Look Toward New Desktop Possibilities

Thom Holwerda 2006-02-17 KDE 33 Comments

Developers on the projects expected to make up the next major version of the K Desktop Environment want KDE 4 to offer features and software interaction beyond what is available now, and better, easier access for users to their files and information. Among the ideas are universally available personal information and a desktop that is tailored for and responds to the things users do most. Ian Geiser, a KDE developer and official US representative for the KDE project, says KDE 4 will most likely be released in late 2006, though internal debate could push the release back to early 2007.

Submitted by jaboua 2006-02-01 KDE 19 Comments

"The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice 1.5 beta 1, the first preview release for KOffice 1.5, scheduled for release this March. KOffice is an integrated office suite with more components than any other suite in existence. Never before has a new version of KOffice brought this many exciting new features including Kexi 1.0 and the first release of project management application KPlato. Read the full announcement and the changelog for more details or read on for the full article."

Submitted by lucabotti 2006-01-31 KDE 47 Comments

The KDE project has released the first maintenance release of the 3.5.x series. The changes made in this release are mainly bugfixes; the changelog details all the changes. For more information on the KDE 3.5.x series, check its announcement. You can check KDE's download page for the source, or for the binary packages for various distributions.

Submitted by jaboua 2006-01-31 KDE 33 Comments

"The KDE marketing group is pleased to announce the release of SpreadKDE.org, the new home for KDE's promotional activities. Such a hub for marketing activities has been sorely lacking in KDE until now, and we consider this site a to be a key milestone in establishing a solid foundation in growing KDE's promotional activity. In the past, the KDE community has had no centralized location for holding promotional materials or listing related tasks. However, with the release of SpreadKDE.org, we hope to meet and exceed those basic needs."

Osnabrueck IV Meeting Brings ‘Akonadi’ PIM Data Storage Service

Thom Holwerda 2006-01-15 KDE 8 Comments

For the fourth consecutive year a group of KDE PIM developers followed the gracious invitation of Intevation GmbH to meet at their headquarters in Osnabrueck, Germany on the first weekend in January. As in the past years, the face-time proved very productive especially since everyone felt that with KDE 4 the time for more fundamental changes has come. By the end of the meeting the group had agreed on a vision and initial architecture for a unified, extensible storage service for PIM data and metadata, allowing all applications on the desktop fast and reliable access as well as powerful search capabilities. This service, codenamed 'Akonadi', together with intiatives like Plasma and Solid will form the basis of an exciting KDE 4 experience.

Submitted by gprc_account 2006-01-14 KDE 79 Comments

"Recently at a Linux show, John Littler saw a preview of a new version of KDE running on a KDE developer's laptop. The interface looked cleaner than before, and apparently there was a whole raft of new stuff under the hood. John recently interviewed KDE developer Aaron J. Seigo about the forthcoming KDE 4 (due in the fall) and also a little about the recent controversy surrounding the porting of KDE to operating systems other than Linux."

KHTML and Webcore Come a Little Closer

Submitted by Anonymous 2006-01-11 KDE 39 Comments

KDE developer George Staikos recently announced that now KHTML uses a version of KJS that is nearly 100% in sync with Apple's JavaScriptCore. Other portions of KHTML will be shared with Apple's WebCore in the near future. This comes after a long and heated debate.

KDE 4 Set to Make Device Interaction Solid

Submitted by Anonymous 2006-01-04 KDE 44 Comments

"After a lot of hacking behind the scenes, a new initiative to improve KDE's interaction with network and hardware devices has been launched. Solid will provide a robust basis for the dynamic modern desktop in KDE, which needs to be aware of available hardware and networks, paving the way for innovative functionality. Users should see KDE applications taking advantage of Solid in KDE 4, from the most basic Plasma applets and complex applications to desktop-wide awareness. Developers will be able to take advantage of a robust, flexible and portable API and will be integrated into the Plasma engine. It will make use of existing technologies like HAL."

Interview: kde-redhat Project Leader Rex Dieter

Thom Holwerda 2006-01-03 KDE No Comments

"Rex Dieter has been making the unofficial KDE Red Hat packages for some years now. Since this is a service depended upon by thousands of Red Hat users to get their required latest build of KDE, KDE Dot News interviewed Rex to find out how he got started, why the need for the project exists and how he makes the packages. Read on for the interview.

KDE 3.5 VMware Player Image Released

Submitted by Sander Antoniades 2006-01-02 KDE 15 Comments

SUSE developer Stephan Binner has released a VMware image of SUSE 10 with KDE 3.5 installed, enabling people to run KDE 3.5 inside any platform supported by the freeware VMware player. "I created an image which contains a standard KDE desktop installation of SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS, upgraded to KDE 3.5 including KOffice 1.4.2 excluding non-KDE applications. It's a fully working installation so don't forget to install and try some additional KDE applications - and to run the security update when you're asked to."