KDE Archive

KDE 3.4.3 Released

Thom Holwerda 2005-10-13 KDE 60 Comments

"The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.4.3, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. KDE 3.4.3 ships with a basic desktop and fifteen other packages (PIM, administration, network, edutainment, utilities, multimedia, games, artwork, web development and more)." Here's the changelog, download here.

KOffice 1.4.2 Released

Thom Holwerda 2005-10-11 KDE 102 Comments

"The KDE Project today announced the release of KOffice 1.4.2 for Linux and Unix operating systems. Support for the OpenDocument format, recently adopted by Massachusetts state in the USA, has been greatly improved, especially in KWord, KSpread and KPresenter. Karbon, a vector-based drawing program, has also seen a lot of development lately, and many fixes have gone into it."

KDE 4 Promises Radical Changes

Thom Holwerda 2005-09-27 KDE 92 Comments

"As the dust settles from aKademy 2005, the annual KDE conference, it's a good time to take a look at what the KDE developers are working on. Though KDE 3.5 isn't even out yet, developers are already working on KDE 4. Plenty of work has already gone into porting existing code to Qt4, the GUI toolkit upon which KDE is based, and KDE developers are working on projects that could radically change how works."

Aaron Seigo on the Upcoming OSDW in San Diego

Submitted by Wade Olson 2005-09-25 KDE 41 Comments

"Earlier in the week, I conducted a lengthy phone interview with Aaron Seigo about the Open Source Desktop Workshop being held in San Diego on October 13th and 14th. Fast approaching, we discuss the workshop's inception, target audience and expectations."

Setting up KDE with Fink on OSX

Thom Holwerda 2005-09-23 KDE 25 Comments

This simple guide will go over the basics of setting up and running KDE on MacOSX. You'll need at least Mac OS 10.3, Fink, and some experience with the command-line.

KDE 3.5 Beta 1 ‘Kanzler’ Released

Thom Holwerda 2005-09-21 KDE 119 Comments

KDE 3.5 Beta 1 can be downloaded over the Internet by visiting KDE's download page. Source code and vendor supplied binary packages are available. For additional information on package availability and to read further release notes, please visit the KDE 3.5 Beta 1 information page.

KDE Conference Celebrates Success and Looks to Future

Submitted by anonymous 2005-09-12 KDE 3 Comments

"Ten days of presentations, workshops, and chaotic coding sponsored by Trolltech, Novell/SUSE, HP, the local governments of Andalucia, and Malaga can only mean one thing: aKademy 2005, the KDE community's annual conference. Held in Malaga, Spain, aKademy 2005 included a Users and Administrators Conference, a Developer Conference and a Coding Marathon. Users, developers, and local visitors with an interest in open technology were treated to a display of stable desktop software and glimpses of cutting-edge innovations to come."

Beauty and Magic for KDE, with Zack Rusin

Submitted by Anonymous 2005-09-09 KDE 57 Comments

One of the most anticipated presentations at this year's KDE World Summit, better known as aKademy, was Zack Rusin's intriguing 'Beauty and Magic for KDE developers'. Zack is a long-time KDE developer who has recently been hired to work full time at Trolltech. As the developer conference continued, more and more people heard of the amazing visual effects (.avi) that Zack was going to demonstrate. Here is an interview with him.

Submitted by Lumbergh 2005-09-04 KDE 15 Comments

"RuDI is an architectural approach whose goal is to achieve loose coupling among interacting software components instead of linking to libraries. A service is a unit of work of the desktop done by a service provider to achieve desired end results for a 3rd party service consumer. How does RuDI achieve loose coupling among interacting software agents? It does so by employing two architectural constraints: An extensible XML schema allows new versions of services to be introduced without breaking existing services. Second we send messages over a protocol instead of calling explicit individual member functions."

Submitted by kellym 2005-08-22 KDE 21 Comments

The K Desktop Environment was pleased to see its users recently at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Users were excited to learn about KDE 4.0, some of the hot new stuff in KDE 3.5, and thousands of Linux users got out of the house for a change.

Interview: Aaron Seigo of KDE

Thom Holwerda 2005-08-20 KDE 64 Comments

"Seigo has been working with the KDE project for some time, and is now working on the KDE Plasma project, a new direction in the way that users will work with the desktop. We asked Seigo if he'd spend a little time talking about the new project, and the direction of KDE, and he kindly obliged. Read on for an interesting look at what's going on with KDE."

Submitted by tbutler 2005-08-19 KDE 214 Comments

Just over a year ago, Tim Butler wrote an article which outlined why he thought the GNOME Project was clearly the free software desktop project with the best vision of the future. KDE’s Appeal Project, which has been brewing for some time now, looks to a different set of issues that need solving and has some very smart minds at work on solving those problems. In a few words, KDE’s got some of “that vision thing” too, according to Tim.

Appeal Website Launched

Thom Holwerda 2005-08-13 KDE 32 Comments

After a few months of quiet activity, the Appeal desktop project has rolled out a new project website that documents what everyone has been up to and discussing. Since the the last public announcement many things have occurred, including another Appeal meeting being held in Germany. The project is looking forward to sharing its experiences and gathering input from the general KDE developer community at aKademy 2005 later this month.

JLP’s KDE 3.5 Previews (Part 2)

Submitted by Jure Repinc 2005-08-12 KDE 92 Comments

"It looks like the first part of my KDE 3.5 previews was extremely popular. Much more than I could ever anticipated. I even got Slashdotted. Anyway, here is the second part of the look into KDE's near future. Enjoy the tour!"

KDE 3.5 Alpha Released to FTP

Thom Holwerda 2005-08-10 KDE 80 Comments

KDE 3.5 Alpha source tarballs are up on the FTP servers. This release is "really alpha quality", so no big announcement is planned. To get this release, you can either use Konstruct, or download the Klax KDE 3.5 Alpha Live-CD. Update: Here's a screenshot gallery of this release.

Submitted by seguso 2005-08-05 KDE 124 Comments

In the last few days, KDE developers have been actively discussing usability issues for KDE 4. Here are some thoughts, and some more are here. What do you think?

KDE 3.4.2 Released

Submitted by Philipp Esselbach 2005-07-28 KDE 56 Comments

KDE 3.4.2 is the second maintenance release which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and greatly enhanced support for existing translations and new translations. Changelog and download.

Preview of KDE 3.5

Submitted by Ben Jao Ming 2005-07-26 KDE 194 Comments

A blog entry by Jure Repinc tells us about some of the new features in KDE 3.5 which according to this schedule isn't quite finished yet. Amongs other things, there will be a Storage Media Notification dialog and some more eye candy in Kicker.

KDE 3.4.1 First Desktop from OpenSolaris Community

Thom Holwerda 2005-07-20 KDE 29 Comments

KDE 3.4.1 is the first modern desktop environment being compiled, packaged and working fully on the OpenSolaris platform. While KDE is known to compile out of the box on Solaris with GCC, using the Sun ONE Studio 10 Compiler still presents a challenge which requires a lot of patches. Dot.KDE has an interview with the Kde on Solaris team leader.

KDE Development News From SVN

Submitted by anonymous 2005-07-14 KDE 21 Comments

This is the first of a new series of articles that keeps you informed of what's happening in KDE development. The hottest new features to hit SVN every month will be tested and sneak preview screenshots posted. Current issues are available from June and July.