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.
Around 3 weeks ago, I downloaded the 2nd beta of KDE 3.2 from their FTP site. I've been using this release every day since then. The purpose of my writing this piece is not to highlight KDE 3.2's new features and applications - read the Changelog at KDE's site for that - but to give you a complete picture of how it measures up to its previous versions in terms of everyday use. Does it make me more productive? Is the command line more efficient yet? Or, even better, does it make me use the command line more effectively? Read on...
KDE project is planning on announcing QtGTK library which was written by one of its core developers. The library integrates Qt event loop with GNOME. Thanks to that whole KDE framework can be used from any GTK+ application just like it would be a native part of it. The library itself is already available here. There seems to be also a tutorial on how to use it here. Reportedly Gimp already works with it.
Ben Mazer write a not-so-positive review of the KDE 3.2 beta. It can be found here. Our recent KDE review is here. Elsewhere, RangerRick now has a preliminary KOffice port (with some Qt font/drawing issues still to fix) to Mac OS X in addition to the recent Konqueror port.
The KDE Group - a group of KDE and/or Debian developers with a dedication to and interest in both projects - have written this detailed proposal opposing the decision to go with GNOME as the sole UserLinux GUI. Our Take: On Friday I emailed Bruce Perens on the issue, but he didn't reply. Following is my short email to Perens, trying to suggest a solution that might become acceptable by both camps.
ITBusiness.ca has an interesting
success story about how LinuxMagic switched FitnessWorld to Linux and KDE.
Although the article does not mention KDE, we know they are using KDE thanks
to this KDE Success Story that was submitted to
KDE::Enterprise.
Our Take: Last night we watched the X-Men 2 DVD and in the feature documentaries on the second DVD disk, in the one regarding the visual effects, one of the SGI animators was clearly using KDE as well.
The latest beta of KDE's 3.2, beta 2, was released a few days ago. I installed the provided Fedora RPMs and had a look in this early pre-release version of the popular X11 desktop environment. Six screenshots are included. We look at both the strengths and the weaknesses of the DE.
