Submitted by Ian Reinhart Geiser 2004-04-07KDE6 Comments
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.
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.
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.
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.
The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.2.1, a maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other UNIXes. Announcement, changelog, Info, download.
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.
At The People Behind KDE this week and interview with the man who represents what working and contributing to a project like KDE stands for. He's from Cowtown, in The Great White North, Canada's own Aaron Seigo.
The KDE project started an effort to redesign its Kcontrol panel and here is the outcome so far (in CVS). Update: A developer's article, how to build a KDE plugin structure.
Along with the development environment, Datschge and Henrique Pinto look at the large number of new KDE apps, the project structure, and even the philosophy behind KDE. If you are thinking about checking out KDE 3.2, are a long-time user, or just want to know what's up, this review has everything you need to know.
"The People Behind KDE" series is back from a long vacation thanks to overwhelming popular demand. In this first interview, KDE's ever so charming Tink gets back with Matthias Ettrich to see what has changed since the previous interview now more than three years ago.
"KDE 3.2 provides an integrated desktop along with various applications to carry out common desktop tasks such as web browsing, email, instant messaging, multimedia, graphics, etc. Some of the impressive features which you will notice include..."Read the article at FedoraNews.org. Update: Two more KDE articles, one at Enterprise-Linux-IT and one at ITNews.
tcb was the first of many readers to submit the news that KDE 3.2 is out. KDE 3.2 included a number of new features and bug fixes as well as speed improvements. Pleaseusemirrorstodownload. Update:Here is also the KDevelop 3.0 release anouncement.
In this interview, Jan Holesovsky, author and leader of the KDE.OpenOffice.org project, now employed by SUSE, gives a glimpse of what to expect in terms of OpenOffice.org integration on the KDE desktop.
The KDE on Cygwin project announced its KDE 3.1.4 release for Cygwin/XFree. New are native sound support, windows executables are usable in Konqueror, prelimary printing support using Ghostscript and much more, the Dot reports.
"After developers finished squishing more than 2,000 bugs, KDE 3.2, codenamed Rudi, is available in Beta 2, codenamed Dobra Voda (which in Czech means "good water"). What are new features of the desktop environment? Does an update make sense?" Michael 'STIBS' Stibane asks in his review.
In the dawn of the news that well known artist Everaldo, of CrystalSVG fame, now works for Lindows.com, a long discussion has started on kde-core-devel because Everaldo hasn't released the source code of some of the SVG icons that was supposed to be shipped with KDE 3.2. Update: Lindows.com's Kevin Carmony (President & COO) responds.