News Archive for April 1999

Robert does even provide the theme manager code as a package available to download from the same place as the themes. A binary form seems also to be available.

Even more, Robert's kindness went as far as making the famous DrawingBoard theme available. Many thanks to him for satisfying the "hunger" of the many tens of people who asked for it.

NOTE: Thanks to Kevin Fisher for the signal.

Aron Hsiao, which announced this award to us, wrote: "[The Mining Co.] is pleased to present you with our 'Best of the Net' award through our child site, Focus On Linux.

[...] Of the many hundreds of Linux sites we index, spanning some forty community-oriented site categories, a total of ten (10) sites will recieve the "Best of the Net" award, placing your site without question in the top 1% of Linux sites on the Internet. The Focus on Linux Best of the Net award is given semiannually at the end of April and at the end of October.

Please accept this award as a thank you for an excellent contribution to the Linux community and to the open-source/free software movement. [...]"

Many thanks to The Mining Co. for this award.

NOTE: among the other winners, our friends Freshmeat.net LinuxToday.com and Themes.org

This is the starting point for the KDE theming/styling technology, which will be officially featured prime time at KDE-2.0 release. The code is already shaping well and the styles are nice and, most important, very fast.

"The article titled "Genius NetMouse Pro and KDE" is available at Predawnia.

I also have created a poll titled "KDE 1.1.1 will be released soon. Will you upgrade?" The poll is located at the main page at Predawnia

The press release indicates: "Users can now chose to run one of two new, popular graphical user interfaces (GUIs), GNOME or KDE, which make Linux even easier to use with a point-and-click environment that eliminates the need to type in command lines for tasks". Many thanks.

Corel Corporation is another long-time supporter of KDE. The former Corel's subsidiary, Corel Computer Inc., provided a number NetWinder DM machines to the KDE developers community.

COL-2.2 uses KDE-1.1 as its default desktop environment. Inside COL-2.2, KDE-1.1 receives the most tighten integration with the system. Starting with the installation, which uses the famous LIZARD, the first full-featured graphical Linux installer, and ending with COAS, Caldera's OpenSource system administration tool, KDE serves as a basis.

Caldera Systems is one of the most dedicated supporters of the KDE project. The company helped (together with other companies) to sponsor the KDE ONE reunion in 1997. Also, they are employing one developer to do full-time work on KDE. Thank you, Caldera.

KDE receives a warm appreciation. The article should get much attention from the KDE community, because it underlines a few misgivings inside our project which aren't necessarily related to the quality of our code. For example, KDE is perceived as having an "OK" potential and an "OK" factor of coolness. Both these (second order) rankings could have their explanation in the lesser accent the KDE community puts on hyping their projects and their yet finished work. In any case, the article is nice and we thank to Joe Barr for his objective work.

A.F.Lack, creator of Ktk, the KDE-look library for TixWish, announces the release of Ktk-0.4. AFL says: "Version 0.4 is an "unfinished business" release and fixes some rough edges left from the 0.3 version: the kombobox is now complete; the file select window now honours your existing KDE file dialog settings.". This library ought to be a treasure for Tk developers wanting to make their programs benefit from KDE's integration offer. Thanks, AFL.

ftp://ftp.linuxberg.com/pub/KDE/."

Also, Ext2, now associated with LinuxBerg, has a brief but very nice review of KDE written by Arthur H. Johnson II. Thanks

Antonio Larrosa discovered that the most popular journal of Málaga, Spain, mentions KDE in relation with the CeBIT award. And we all know how seldom technology issues come into attention in daily newspapers.

Spanish magazine "Solo Programadores Linux" no.8 comes with a cover CD on which KDE-1.1 RPMs for Red Hat 5.2 can be found.

Mukhsein Johari of Grafiti Media informed us that this company sells PCs with Linux Mandrake pre-installed.

Rhichard Barth started a KDE discussion group on ICQ. This group is maintained on a daily basis.

PCQuest magazine from India contains KDE 1.1 this month on its extremely popular monthly CD. Thanks to Rajarshi Bandyopadhyay for letting us know.