KDE in the Press

This is a collection of references to articles about or related to KDE, which have appeared in the press. If you know of other KDE related articles, please let us know.

C|Net, 11 December 2000:
Linux moves slowly onto the desktop - "The K Desktop Environment (KDE), one of the two primary graphical user interfaces for Linux, has been upgraded to version 2.0, and big names such as Compaq Computer, Hewlett-Packard and IBM have formed an industry consortium called the KDE League to promote the software. "

EarthWeb, 17 November 2000:
A Look at KDE 2.0 Part2: Konqeuror--KDE 2.0's New Web Browser, File Manager, and Much More - "Konqueror has the ability to take care of Java code, as well as Javascripting, You will need to turn it on;for security reasons, the KDE team has recommended shipping Konqueror with Java disabled by default. On the menu bar, select Settings/Configure/Browser."

UpsideToday, 17 November 2000:
KDE League looks much like Gnome Foundation - "Nevertheless, Wednesday's conference had one element that seemed to imply a significant shift in the future work of Dalheimer and other KDE developers. IBM, a charter KDE League member, announced that its own developers have been working to port voice recognition software to the KDE interface."

ZDnet, 16 November 2000:
KDE League gets down to business - "Among the 15 founding members of the league are Compaq Corp., Corel Corp., IBM, SuSE Inc., TurboLinux Inc., Borland and Caldera Systems Inc. Two companies conspicuous by their absence were Red Hat Inc. and VA Linux Inc. Chris Schlager, the president of KDE, said both had been invited and were considering joining. "

InfoWorld, 16 November 2000:
KDE ready to do battle with Gnome - "The Linux desktop battle heated up Wednesday when the developers of the K Desktop Environment (KDE) announced wide industry support for the newly formed KDE League. Developers of the competing Gnome open-source operating environment beat KDE to the punch in August when the Gnome Foundation released a laundry list of vendors backing the group."

LinuxNews, 15 November 2000:
IBM, KDE Relationship Deepens - "But this alphabetic anomaly could yield significant results for the open source community. IBM announced today at Comdex Las Vegas that IBM would join the new KDE League and partner with Trolltech, Mandrake and others to continue work on IBM's ViaVoice voice recognition software for the KDE desktop."

ZDnet, 14 November 2000:
Linux backers to announce KDE League - "The KDE Linux desktop environment will take a giant step forward Wednesday when its supporters announce here at Comdex that they have banded together to form the KDE League to actively push the technology."

ZDNet, 31 October 2000:
KDE Brings Linux Closer to Corporate Desktop - "In eWEEK Labs' tests of the software's final release candidate, KDE2 impressed us with the progress it has made in the areas of user experience and included applications -- we recommend that sites looking at Linux as a future desktop alternative take the time to evaluate KDE2. In fact, anyone interested in Linux, but scared away by its interface, should give KDE2 a try."

LinuxToday.au, 30 October 2000:
You Ought To Be Kongratulated! - "It might not have generated the kind of media circus associated with a Microsoft product launch, but last week's release of KDE 2.0 was big news in the Linux community. As most readers will already know, KDE 2.0 is a tightly integrated set of office productivity application tools along with an easy-to-use graphical desktop."

LinuxWorld, October 2000:
Community is core for KDE: Interview with Matthias Elter - "Matthias Elter: The KDE project has won quite a few awards recently, but the Linux Community Award is the most important from my point of view for two reasons. First, I personally attended the show in Frankfurt and it was a pleasure to chat with Linus, who was the one to hand out the award. The second and more important reason is that this award is not the result of a committee decision but is based on a community survey. KDE after all is and will ever be a community project. "

Linux.org, 26 October 2000:
Linux Online Interviews (David Faure) - "This week Linux Online interviews David Faure. David is a developer for KDE. He is the maintainer for apps such as kfm and Konqueror. Konquerer is the promising new web browser designed by the folks at KDE. He has also given lectures on the Linux circuit around the world. Linux Online interviewed him about himself, his work for KDE and Linux and the future of KDE"

LinuxWorld, October 2000:
KDE dominates first European LinuxWorld Expo - "A number of significant Linux players, like Corel, Applix, and Loki, didn't appear at the Expo. It was also hard to find GNOME's footprint -- the only place I saw GNOME was on Jon "maddog" Hall's notebook computer during his keynote. KDE absolutely dominated the booths and presentations. Is more evidence needed of a strong KDE position in Europe?"

ZDNet, 24 October 2000:
Kopernicus: Linux made easy - "Kopernicus includes the Konqueror Web browser and file manager; the first release of KOffice, an integrated office suite; KParts component object tools; and other elements aimed at both developers and end users. Kopernicus also includes more than 100 applications for games, graphics, administration, and utilities"

LinuxPlanet, 22 October 2000:
.comment: A Look at KDE2 - "The underlying architecture has been improved everywhere and completely changed where needed. The whole thing is object-oriented, so that in one application you will find things familiar from other applications--greatly reducing the learning curve--and built, in large measure, from powerful and cleverly designed reusable parts. What makes this so cool is that as new parts are added, existing applications will be able to make use of them with a minimum of recoding. Third-party developers are already at work on additional KParts, leading, for instance, to the Kivio flow-chart application that theKompany.com released in early beta last week."

EarthWeb, 19 October 2000:
A Look at KDE 2.0 Part 1: KDE 2 - Introduction - Let's find out how to set up more desktops. If you know KDE2 very well, you would autmatically click on LookNFeel and then on virtual desktops. For new users, click on the Search tab and enter the word Desktop; you will be prompted with three selections of kcontrol that include Desktop as the reference key word."

LinuxPlanet, 7 September 2000:
Editor's Note: KDE to be Part of Debian GNU/Linux - "We will to wait until the Qt 2.2 release and [until] someone makes packages of a KDE2 snapshot that is based on that before we can include it," wrote Ackerman. "Considering how many people have been asking for KDE packages in Debian I expect that we will have packages within 2 weeks of the Qt/UNIX 2.2 release."

LinuxPlanet, 6 September 2000:
.comment: Peace in Our Time? - "In addition, he seems confused as to the difference between the GPL and the law. Many of us, no doubt, would jump at the opportunity to create a law or two by fiat; most of us differ with Stallman in that we know that we do not have the power to decree laws. In his Linux Today article yesterday, he pronounces various aspects of KDE as not being legal -- something that he has no standing whatsoever to do. His GPL has never been before a judge. Its validity is entirely unknown. If he thought that KDE were illegal and he thought that the GPL were enforcable, he would, one might think, have taken it all to court by now. He hasn't."

CNET, 5 September 2000:
Barrier lowered between Linux interfaces - "The change means the KDE user interface, which is based on Trolltech's Qt, will now compete on a more equal technical basis with the Gnome user interface, which is based on the GTK+ library. In a series of flame wars in recent years, debaters have often focused on the legal underpinnings of the two user interfaces."

ZDNet, 4 September 2000:
Good news for KDE: Trolltech adds GPL option to Qt - "One happy beneficiary of Qt's new GPL license is KDE, the most popular Linux desktop environment, which is currently vying with GNOME to be the preferred environment for mainstream Linux developments. KDE, an open source project itself, has occasionally been shunned by open source advocates due to its dependence on the non-GPL Qt."

LinuxPlanet, 4 September 2000:
Trolltech to Release Qt Under GPL - "I am very pleased to see that Qt is now available under the GPL," said Richard Stallman, president of the Free Software Foundation. "This is a big win for free software and a great gift from Trolltech to the community."

LinuxPlanet, 23 August 2000:
.comment: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, It's Off to War We Go - "A new battle has been joined. This time it isn't because of anything Miguel has said; he seems to be busy alienating opposing forces within the Gnome community itself through his new company, Helix Code, which plans to make money from Gnome. No, now the concern has to do with the formation of something called the Gnome Foundation, in which large companies who seldom agree on anything long enough to get a product to market are giving it another shot, this time with Gnome as the object of their affections."

osOpinion, 22 August 2000:
A vs. B, or Why You Should Both Shut Up - "While BSD users are saying "Linux ripped off BSD" and Linux users are saying "BSD is full of code purist nazis", Microsoft is coding, coding, coding. While Gnome users are saying "KDE sucks because of Qt" and KDE users are saying "Gnome is slow, overly political and stilted", Microsoft is coding some more."

LinuxPlanet, 20 August 2000:
Editor's Note: Not a Typical Troll Tale - "Despite the attacks by the Free Software crowd, TrollTech has managed to grow (there are now 40 TrollTech employees, and the privately held firm recently attracted $8.5 million in venture capital) and become a central player in the world of Linux development tools, first with Qt and now with two new exciting developments: Qt/Designer and an embedded version of Qt."

Olinux.br, 20 August 2000:
KDE Release 2.0 by Mathias Ettrich - "KDE is a true open source project that consists mainly of voluntary work. You can't compare this to commercial open source projects like Mozilla or the Eazel file manager. KDE gets written because its authors want to write it, while those commercial open source projects get written because somebody senses business and pays programmers to do the job."

LinuxWorld, 18 August 2000:
Geek Bowl on the Qt - "I just put the finishing touches on the Geek Bowl quiz program, and I must say that it has been a rewarding experience writing this program in Qt. In the past week I was able to rip out a couple of custom classes I'd written and replace them with stock objects that Qt provides."

osOpinion, 18 August 2000:
Beating them with their own code: why GNOME can't kill KDE - "The open source world may be coming more and more into contact with the corporate world. Indeed many open source developers work for corporates, but nonetheless the open source world is *different* and writing off a major project may make good press but won't change the (uncomfortable for some) fact that both GNOME and KDE will be around for a long time to come."

LinuxPlanet, 17 August 2000:
Editor's Note: Conned by the Gnomes - "To me, the GNOME Foundation is really nothing more than an attempt by large vendors to impose their agendas on the Linux community and stifle both innovation and community involvement. For Sun, this is nothing more than an attempt to push StarOffice on the Linux community by tying it to a single desktop standard; it's also a rather blatant effort to crush K Office before it's released, and that saddens me a great deal, because K Office has the potential to be a killer application rising solely from the Linux community."

LWN.net, 16 August 2000:
A talk with KDE developer Kurt Granroth - "Liz: Sorry to ask the same question that you've probably heard from so much of the press this week, but could you give me your reaction to the GNOME announcements this week? Kurt: Actually, the question we've been asked most this week is "When will KDE 2.0 be available?" We have some great things coming out with the release of 2.0, particularly Konqueror, vastly improved management of file extensions and great performance. People are really excited about it. They love KDE 1.0 and KDE 2.0 is a tremendous improvement on that. The conference is going very well for us."

The Register, 15 August 2000:
KDE responds: we're not scared - "As for the mindshare of the distros, he points out that the two most popular Linuxes in Europe - Mandrake and SuSE, run KDE as default. And then there's Corel, which assuming it can stay solvent, will release Corel Linux 2.0 shortly. It's based on KDE 1.2, but will include some features of KDE 2.0 back ported. Corel continues to advise, and add nitty-gritty stuff like key bindings and Q&A he says."

LinuxPlanet, 14 August 2000:
.comment: Working Today Trumps High-Powered Vapor - "The KDE developers mailing list has been abuzz over an article in The New York Times saying that on Thursday IBM, Sun Microsystems, and others will throw their support behind Gnome as the standard Linux desktop.

"Woe is me, all is lost" was the general tenor of the discussion.

Nonsense."

LinuxPlanet, 2 August 2000:
.comment: A (P)review of KDE2 - "The extent to which these guys and Emily anticipate user needs and provide for them is truly amazing. If they were philosophers defining the meaning of life, I sometimes think they'd get it sorted out in a couple of weeks. These people are very good."

WebReview.com, 28 July 2000:
Web Browsers on the Linux Desktop - "Because of the status and development muscle behind KDE and the progress already made with Konqueror, this is definitely one to keep an eye on. Preview releases of KDE 2.0 have been coming regularly and it's achieving stability quickly. "

LinuxPlanet, July 2000:
.comment: Putting KDE in Its Place - "Without exception, the people who have argued to me (and at me) in favor of KDE being placed in /usr are people who use RPMs or other binary package management systems to install software. Now, by definition these users don't have any practical reason for caring where KDE goes, as long as once it's there it runs. Some of this no doubt comes from the "mine is bigger than yours" aspects of loyalty to a distribution, which is already threatening to fork Linux so thoroughly that soon it will more resemble a paintbrush than a fork. But that scarcely lets Red Hat and its distributional followers off the hook. Perhaps they have good business reasons for making users obligated to use their RPMs; if so, good for them. But not good for Linux."

LinuxPlanet, July 2000:
.comment: Guys Named Stephan and Matthias - "It's wonderful to be wishing KDE a happy third birthday--the day it was released being its first birthday--but even more exciting is anticipation of KDE2. A bunch of guys named Stephan and Matthias--and Harri, and David, and Don, and Mosfet, and now there's even an Emily, and hundreds more--are producing a desktop so innovative that it will cause anyone who approaches it with an open mind to rethink much of his or her own approach to computing."

ShowMeLinux!, July 2000:
KILLing Adobe Illustrator - "A nice addition is that you can put text on a path, and it remains editable as text, just like the high-end rivals in the proprietary world. A complete package altogether, and easy to learn your way around."

Linux Magazine, June 2000:
KDE web site in the top 100
From Robert McMillan of Linux Magazine: "...kde.org was selected as one of the Top 100 Linux Web sites in the June issue of Linux Magazine.". Many thanks.

GnuLinux, June 2000:
KDE2: Bigger than Elvis? - "One of the first things you'll notice when you start KDE 2 (we used the 'Kleopatra' binaries that were released on June 14) is its abundance of applications. The KDE 2 team has thought of almost everything, including their new Konquerer browser (see Figure 1), which has already proven to be faster and more stable than Netscape Navigator or Communicator. Konquerer not only views HTML documents, but also acts as a file manager and network browser, much like Microsoft's Windows Explorer."

LinuxMall, June 2000:
Kleopatra Rules Desktop Nile - "With Kleopatra's release, KDE is one step closer to the final release. "KDE 2.0 supports Unicode at its very core, the outstanding Qt toolkit. In addition, KHTML support includes bidirectional scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and Far Eastern languages (Chinese/Japanese/Korean). Combined with the 45 separate teams actively translating KDE into other languages, KDE 2.0 will truly be an international desktop."

BeOpen, June 2000:
BeOpen Interview with Warrick Allison of Troll Tech's Qt Library - "Allison says his first experience with Qt came via KDE, the Open Source graphic user interface that relies heavily on the Qt library."

BeOpen, June 2000:
BeOpen Interview with Gaël Duval of MandrakeSoft - "I just wanted a good distribution with a very good window manager, so I took Red hat and put KDE in it. I made a few improvements and I just wrote to Slashdot, made a few announcements and in one month, the world was aware of the existence of Mandrake. Six months later, Red Hat put Qt in their distribution [laughs]."

LinuxPlanet, June 2000:
.comment: Lawyers, Guns, and Money (KDE and Corel: Working in the Real World) - "It's frightening, the idea that Linux and its applications could fall victim to its own success. But wherever there's money, big money as there is now in Linux, there is someone very clever who will try to take it away."

LinuxUK, 9 June 2000:
Interview with David Faure of KDE - "Once we have the desktop working, we would like to put more work into KOffice and into even more applications like Magellan and Empath. We would like to create useful applications like KOffice and Kafka. It's those kind of applications that people are looking for on Linux. Most of those don't exist of yet as free software. "

The Duke Of URL, 6 June 2000:
KDE 2 - "What can KDE do to improve over an already brilliant operating environment? Add tons of new features and support for the latest Qt libraries. Combine that with a slick, new file manager and full support for XFree86 4.0 and you've got yourself gold-that is, if they play their cards right."

LinuxPlanet, May 2000:
Konquering the Web - "The split window (or split view) feature really shines when it comes to doing FTP transfers. Point one half to the appropriate directory on the local drive, the other to the remote ftp directory, select the files you want to receive (or send) and drag them from the source side to the target side."

LinuxPlanet, May 2000:
Konfiguring KDE2 - "But by year's end, it will likely be the default desktop for many if not most Linux distributions, and is certain to become a standard (if not the standard). So if you want to amaze your friends, learn a great deal without a lot of effort, and become the resident KDE2 guru, now is the time to start."

SunWorld, May 2000:
Phil Thompson puts Python and Qt together - "Why do PyQt and PyKDE users like those toolkits? First, Qt itself is a high-quality product with plenty of functionality, an appearance that's often praised, and excellent documentation. Python is a highly productive language, one that already supports more GUI toolkits than even Java. "

GNULinux.com, May 2000:
Corel Linux 1.1 Review - "Corel has chosen to use (and heavily modify) the K Desktop Environment. When you first login, you're not presented with the default KDE login screen, but a login screen that looks eerily reminiscent of the Windows NT login screen. Personally, I prefer the default KDE screen, but this is just a personal opinion."

LinuxPlanet, May 2000:
Suites for the Sweet: KOffice - "KWord would be quite an accomplishment and a thing of which the developers at KDE could be rightly proud, even if their work stopped right there. But it doesn't, by a long shot. The KOffice suite includes a 3-D chartmaker, a vector-drawing program, a bitmap-graphics program, an application that prepares presentations, a formula editor, an image viewer, and, of course, a spreadsheet."

LinuxPlanet, May 2000:
Leading and Bleeding with XFree86 4.0 and KDE 2 Beta - "I've only been running it for about eight hours as I write this, but so far there have been zero crashes of KDE as a whole. I've seen some applications refuse to start, or start then die with no message, but KDE itself seems relatively stable. "

OLinux.com.br, April 2000:
KDE2 is around the corner. Are you curious? - "KDE also seems to be the choice being made by commercial application developers coming from Windows such as Inprise/Corel. Many of these people can't imagine doing application development in a primarly C API as a step above what they had in Windows, even if there are bindings, etc... The KDE/Qt API is the only one which makes sense to these people."

LinuxPR, 18 April 2000:
Lineo And Cosource.com Announce Open Source Project Completion - "Kdevelop is an excellent tool. By adding some specific enhancements that our customers needed, we increased its value significantly," said Tim Bird, Chief Technology Officer at Lineo, Inc. "Cosource.com provided us a way to solicit developers with Linux expertise, allowing us to make these enhancements available to everyone under Open Source licensing."

InformIT, 14 April 2000:
Expert Recommends: KDE Development - "A brief glimpse on Amazon indicates that there aren't any KDE development books available in English (apart from my book) at this time. However, a couple of books that do not deal with KDE directly may be of interest to the new KDE programmer."

Eric Lee Green, April 2000:
Windows? No, KDE! - "The result is a simple, elegant environment which arguably does the Internet transparency better than Windows 98 -- everything is a web page, even the desktop, and hauling an icon from an FTP server onto the desktop is no different from hauling an icon from your CD-ROM onto the desktop."

LinuxWorld, March 2000:
On the Qt - Discover the object library behind KDE - "Once you get your feet wet with Qt, it's a short step from there to programming for KDE."

ZDNet Linux, 1 February 2000:
C.D.E. R.I.P.? - "The only CDE-specific application I could find was one that converts your CDE configuration for use by KDE."

Linux Journal, February 2000:
KDE -- The Next Generation - "The KDE team is working full steam on the next release of the K Desktop Environment which is planned for spring 2000, so it is time to look at what the new version will have in store."

Sys Admin, February 2000:
Selecting a GUI for Linux - "KDE also includes several SOHO type tools that would make KDE an attractive option for people wanting to use Linux in an office environment." For more current mentions see dot.kde.org's "KDE in the News" category.