News Archive for January 2000

Meanwhile, Chris Schlaeger will attempt to give a big KDE presentation at the Linux Expo Paris.

We're eager to meet you.

We are proud to announce a new version of KDevelop. Please see http://www.kdevelop.org for requirements and download addresses.

Summary of Changes (between 1.1beta1 and 1.1beta2):

• 7 new application templates
  • KDE1 OpenGL
  • KDE2 SDI
  • KDE2 mini
  • KDE2 MDI
  • QT2 SDI
  • QT2 MDI/QWorkspace
  • QT2 MDI/QextMDI
• improvements in the internal debugger (bug fixes,key accel...)
• support for multibyte characters in the editor (KWrite)
• search dialog for searching a single html page
• many important bugfixes
• updated documentation and translations

Sandy

Just released PerlQt-2.100 on CPAN with support for Qt-2.0.2. It's untested and undocumented, but includes 3000 method prototypes from 150 classes. With any luck, the function you want will be available in Perl. If you have any problems with it, let me know.

URL: ftp://cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/AWIN/PerlQt-2.100.tar.gz
Or from any CPAN mirror: CPAN/authors/id/AWIN/PerlQt-2.100.tar.gz

If it's not there when you read this, try again in a few hours.

Good luck,
Ashley Winters

If you didn't yet see this site, and if you wondered what happens with KDE (since the main authors of this page got a bit under) you must see Mosfet's latest creation.

Just to incite your appetite, here is a brief list of what you can read on mosfet.org:

• KDE featured in February's Linux Journal
• KDE HTML now supports bidirectional text
• XML support in KDE core
• Kaiman, the media player based on the new aRts technology
• New color dialog features
• and much more...

KRN 0.6.9, just uploaded to upload.kde.org, is the first really improved KRN version that is more or less for general use in over a year.

Is it improved: a lot. It's faster, leaner, nicer and more stable.

It's for Qt 1.44 and KDE 1.1.2, but it's possible that it may work with Qt 1.42 and KDE 1.1.0, for all I know.

You can get it from somewhere in ftp.kde.org (and soon mirrors) and from:

http://devel-home.kde.org/~ralsina
http://ultra7.unl.edu.ar/krn

Darius Stachow and the other members of the KUML team are hard at work on their very competitive UML designer only since March 1999, but already have quite impressive things to show.

In the brilliant company of KDevelop and KDbg, KUML promises to make KDE an obvious quality choice for developers big and small.

Perhaps the nicest attribute to grant to the family of KDE development tools is priceless, as in: without a price tag, with an excellent value and featuring free code.

In addition to answering all the above Matthias Ettrich tells us why so much opensource software is being developed and reimplemtented multiple times often by different people and why this is (in contrast to popular believe) not unfortunate.

The current issue of the popular German Unix Magazine iX features Matthias's article.

"As some of you know my KDE development website at mosfet.jorsm.com hasn't been updated for awhile. Well, that is because I have been working on Mosfet.org which officially launches today. It contains more KDE news and dedicated sections for Kicker, KWin, widget themes and styles, and development info. Other features include a new and extensive widget theme tutorial along with information for style developers, and a completely updated KDE2 in action section.

If you would like to check it out go to:
<http://www.mosfet.org> Mosfet's KDE Site"

Nice work, Daniel. Our gratitude.