KDE Archive

This is not a typical review of a desktop environment such as KDE or GNOME. These are my observations when I updated from KDE 3.2.3 to KDE 3.3 Beta1.

Onebase Linux Project has created a special flavor of itsOnebaseGo Live CD that comes with a complete KDE 3.3 Beta desktop and Koffice 1.3.2. It is intended for reporting bugs in KDE and as a Technology preview. It can be installed to hard-disk to have a fully functional Onebase Linux OS. However it is not meant for production use and only users who prefer using the unstable repository are recommended to perform an HD-installation.

The KDE Project is pleased to announce the immediate availability of KDE 3.3 Beta 1. As another step towards the aKademy in late August, this release is named Klassroom.

A 6-page review on the state of KOffice and plenty of screenshots.

Here is a preview of the upcoming KDE 3.3 and here is a review of KDE 3.2.1.

"Kommander is on its way to become one of the most compelling tools in KDE. It has elements that should be very interesting to application developers, power users, newbies and companies looking at using the Linux desktop. So the answer to the question many of you may be asking, "What is Kommander?", really has to be answered from each perspective. A simplified technical description is that Kommander is two programs, an editor and an executor, that produce dialogs that you can execute." Read the article at TheDot.

KDE 3.3 Release Cycle Starts with KDE 3.3 Alpha 1 "Kindergarten" The KDE 3.3 Alpha 1 has been released to the FTP servers this morning. There won't be any binary packages for this release, everyone using Kindergarten is asked to compile it with --enable-debug, so that we can get valuable feedback.

This document describes how to provide meta-data support for a specific file type. It is presented as an example based tutorial. In this context, meta-data is information in the file that describes the file itself. For example, typical meta-data for an image is the number of pixels in the image. This document is matched to Qt 3.3 and KDE 3.2.

The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce a better solution to upgrading KDE, one that will allow a user to get his/her hands on a release the night it hits the mirrors, without having to overwrite the base OS install. Konstruct compiles KDE into a new desktop rather than using RPM or DEB.

Metin Amiroff was the first of many readers to let us know that KDE 3.2.2 is now available. According to the press release, "The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.2, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes." Downloads can be found here.

W. Kendrick gives a visual overview of lesser known KDE features in KDE 3.2 - A User's Perspective (mirror). He covers everything from SuperKaramba to the new Kiosk tool.

SourceXtreme, Inc has posted the first in a series of articles on development with KJSEmbed. KJSEmbed is the KDE JavaScript engine with bindings for Qt/KDE.

This document aims to combine the experience of many of the top KDE developers about Qt and KDE frameworks dos and dont's and provide a good source of advice to new KDE programmers.

Recently KDE 3.2 has hit the full-release stage. Previously, LinMagAU interviewed one of KDE's chief programmers, George Staikos about the upcoming version.