Kommander is a powerful but easy to learn development environment. "Graphical Scripting with Kommander" takes us through the creation of a graphical interface for Konstruct, a tool for downloading, configuring and installing KDE from source packages. The article also lists some of the exciting developments coming to Kommander in the near future.
Patrick Weber writes "The tutorials on the KDE-Cygwin site are very vague and they dont even have one for beginners. So I went out on my own and wrote my own tutorial. This is for anyone (even the people that have no idea what they are doing). I hope that this article is a help to everyone."
"The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.3.2, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes." Read the full announcement here, or download it here."
Stefan Westerfeld, the author of arts, the media fromework for KDE 2.x and KDE 3.x, has written a nice piece on why many of the technical assumptions that he held while developing that software do not hold true. He then shares his insight into the future of media in KDE 4.0 and the free desktop world.
In this month's KDE: From the Source George Staikos details what is to be expected from the upcoming 3.4 version of KDE. an Alpha release is due any minute so you might as well know what you're in for if you're a loyal K head. Some changes include major rework within KHTML & Konqueror, Subversion support, and Apple's Rendezvous.
Open for Business has an interesting and comprehensive interview with KDE core developer and multimedia guru Scott Wheeler of JuK and TagLib fame. He outlines the future of KDE's multimedia efforts. Looks like things move away from aRts as sound server and multimedia framework to a very open minded best-of-breed strategy for KDE 4.0, with GStreamer being preferred at the moment.
In this month's KDE: From the Source, entitled Breaking the Network Barrier George Staikos takes us on a walk-through of KDE's desktop networking protocol handlers in the vein of sftp:// webdav:// and a few really nifty ones I wasn't aware of like info:/ perldoc:/ and tar:/.
KDE 3.3.1 is a maintenance release which provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and greatly enhanced support for existing translations and new translations.
Not so long ago Richard Dale announced Korundum, a RAD environment for KDE. And we should not forgetting Kommander and the official Qt Designer. It seems that KDE/Qt have more than enough RAD tools around. Now another KDE developer has announced Rubydiam, his efforts to bring JIT optimization to Ruby. The results could well be a competing runtime for Free Software development.
Kompose'
is an Expose'-like (OS X) full screen task manager for KDE that has just
gone to release 0.4.1 in two months. You really have to see it to
understand, but imagine that tiny little box in your taskbar that
indicates all our running windows blown up and on the entire desktop.
Then add a tiny screenshot for each app. For those without an OS X box around we have provided these screenshots of Kompose' in action.
Developers behind the next version of KDE are trying to make their software more accessible to people with disabilities. More coverage from aKademy here and here.
The new version of KDE has a completely new email client, in one of many improvements designed to close the features gap with Windows. The final release of KDE 3.3, an open-source Linux desktop environment, is due in a few days and will give users greatly improved email facilities.
With KDE 3.2 reaching a status of stable and mature, a lot of work has been going into the next and final release of the 3.x series, 3.3. Because 3.3 recently hit beta status, NewsForge caught up with KDE developer George Staikos to talk about all things KDE.
For the third interview in the DOT's series previewing aKademy they approached Waldo Bastian, whose most recent major project has been the Kiosk framework. They talked to him about Kiosk, the new Kiosk Admin Tool, Linux on the corporate desktop and what we can expect from his talk at aKademy.