KDE Traffic #57 is Out
Submitted by rmiller on Fri, 2003/07/04 - 2:07amKDE Traffic #57 is out, with more on the KDE 3.2 release thread, news on KDE 3.1.3, a new widget, a new privacy module and more. Get it at the usual place.
KDE Traffic #57 is out, with more on the KDE 3.2 release thread, news on KDE 3.1.3, a new widget, a new privacy module and more. Get it at the usual place.
The KDE Hispano user group has published a HOWTO on installing KDE 3.1.2 on Debian Sarge (testing). Although it is very easy to install KDE 3.1.2 on Debian Woody (simply add a line to souces.list), and even easier on Sid (unstable) where it is available by default, there aren't specific packages for Sarge -- only the old KDE 2.2.2 ones.
In the following interview, Andrew Stanley-Jones, original author of KSirc, gives us some of the insights behind the design of KSirc -- the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for KDE. Read on for such gems as "No company I've ever worked for has offered to pay me to write a client that allows you to waste time chatting online" and "I argue [that chatting on IRC] keeps me awake during a chick flick".
Thanks to KDE France, I have the chance to conduct a phone interview with Trolltech CEO Eirik Eng. If you have questions on Qt and Trolltech, now is the time to ask! I will harvest questions from LinuxFr, KDE France and of course here.
In this week's KDE-CVS-Digest: Multimedia gets some attention, with fixes to aRts and artsbuilder. KGhostview now has a
full screen mode. Work starts on a BIDI mode for Kate. Cervisia, the GUI frontend for CVS, now has an SSH password
Last week I launched a call for help when the KDE booth at the LinuxUser & Developer Expo 2003 dropped in my lap. I have written a report of the events leading up to and happening at the expo. It was a good expo, and KDE fared well there. Expect more pictures to be online soon.
KDE Traffic #56 has been released. This week we have some news about LinuxTag, a fun and interesting little contest that I hope a certain developer has a sense of humor about, some news about KOffice (thanks Jürgen!) and more. You can find it at the usual place.
After her review of JuK, Savanna is back with a unique perspective on the importance of Kontact (preview) to KDE's success. Read on for an entertaining write up of this up and coming app.
The Killer Kontact
by Savanna
At our Belgian SuSE LUG, we have written a handy bilingual HOWTO (dutch version) about how you can check your Hotmail email in KMail with the help of Gotmail.
This week in KDE-CVS-Digest: CD burning application K3b begins to gain DVD writing functionality, continued fixes and improvements
to KWin, more on the binary compatibility debate, bug fixes, and more. Enjoy.