KDE Archive

A Task Force Team of KDE and Knoppix hackers and enthusiasts created "just in time" for LinuxTag 2004 two programs which harvested an overwhelming response from visitors: FreeNX Server and kNX Client. Although not yet officially released, several presentations showed a well working preview of the KDE version for the speed boosting NX Terminal Server technology. The software will be available soon at Kalyxo.org. Read more here.

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

On June 9th 2004, the KDE Project released KDE 3.2.3. Read the detailed KDE 3.2.3 change log. For packages, please visit the KDE 3.2.3 info page and browse the KDE 3.2 Requirements list.

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 article aims to provide an insight into some aspects of KDE usability as seen by a long term Gnome user making the switch, as well as provide a mini-review of SUSE LIVE CD 9.1 - including the obligatory screenshot of course!

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.

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

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.

The aim of the Kimono project on KDE is to write a complete wrapper for KDE/Qt using the Mono framework and is based on early work by KDE bindings hacker Richard Dale. Kimono uses KaXul, a fully XML-based representation of the UI, the Dot reports. However, the changes made to KDE in preparation for Kimono has left the other binding effort, Qt#, orphaned with a dead dependancy: QtC.

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.

KDE has come a long way in usability, stability, compatibility, and features since I first used it. The latest release of the KDE, 3.2.1, was released March 9. But for this review, LinuxPlanet initially looked at KDE 3.2, which shows that Linux is increasingly competitive on the desktop.

Savanna is back with an article about her latest upgrade to the KDE 3.2 desktop. After being on 3.2 beta for several months, she wasn't expecting too much of this upgrade.

Hidden deep within the KDE desktop lies a powerful set of scripting technologies that can allow the power user to automate many tasks. In this article, the author introduces us to these technologies and explains how they can be used to the fullest.

In an effort to attract more contributors, programmers or not, the Quality Team was lauched today. Read the announcement at The Dot, and an opinion piece on the benefits of the new project is at Newsforge.