KDE Archive

KDE 3.2 will introduce an improved configuration framework, known as KConfig XT. This new framework extends, not deprecates, the current KDE configuration API. But if Gnome and KDE continue to have a different API for configuration, how easy freedesktop.org's goal would be to uniform the backends of the two popular DEs? We spoke to freedesktop.org's founder, Havoc Pennington, and here is what he replied after having a quick look at the new KDE API: UPDATE: Read on for KDE/SuSE's Waldo Bastian reply too:

The first beta release of KDE 3.2 has just been released. The announcement can be found here and a discussion can be found here. This release features 10,000 closed bugs and 2000 closed wishes. Enjoy.

In October 14th 1996, Matthias Ettrich announced and detailed a new project that was in search of contributers. The project was temporarily dubbed the 'Kool Desktop Environment', later to simply become the 'K Desktop Environment'. Of course, 7 years later and KDE is about to reach version 3.2, consist of 4.5 millions lines of code and represents the effort of nearly 1400 man-years.

George Staikos ported the latest stable KDE version, 3.1.x, to IBM AIX.

The KDE Project's KDE 3.2, which eWEEK Labs previewed in its initial alpha release, should impress companies countenancing desktop Linux deployments, they say. On other KDE news, KDE 3.1.3 built with Sun Forte on Solaris.

The KDE Project today announced the immediate availability of KDE 3.1.4, a maintenance release. This release provides corrections of problems reported using the KDE bug tracking system and two security vulnerabilities in KDM, among other fixes.

A recent study by analyst Evans Data concluded that KDE has a small edge, preferred over Gnome among Linux developers 65% vs 56% (with some respondents using both).

The KDE Project announced KDE 3.1.3 today. It's the third maintenance release of the successful KDE 3.1.x series and ships with many bugfixes and improved translations. KDE 3.1.3 also contains a fix for a possible http authentication leak in the http referrer header. Info, changelog.

The KDE Project released maintainance release KDE 3.1.2. Announcement, information, changelog.

LinMagau.org features an interesting interview with George Staikos, of KDE fame.

According to Ralf Nolden, the maintainer of KDevelop, Kiosk mode allows an administrator to "lock down KDE so much that it is practically impossible for the users to mess up their configuration." Read the article at NewsFactor.

Kde 3.1.1 has been released today. Here is the announcement and the Changelog.

Vendors working to parlay the server room successes of Linux into a spot on the mainstream corporate desktop have a powerful ally in KDE Project developers, who've been hard at work extending the performance, polish and functionality of KDE. Read the mini-review at eWeek. Update: Ammai just published their own review about KDE 3.1 under Knoppix.

An effort has been started for closer cooperation between the KDE and GNOME usability teams. Additionally, you can read this long article about the corporate KDE. Also, several companies have joined to launch a consortium to promote Linux for desktop computers. The consortium's goal will be to raise awareness of desktop Linux and to speed its adoption, the organization plans to announce today.