News Archive for June 2000

Keystone is a tool for KDE that allows you to remotely access the desktops of machines using the cross-platform VNC system. Keystone can access machines running a variety of operating systems (including most UNIX systems and Windows 95/98/NT/2000) providing they are running a VNC server.

New features in this release include:

• XML GUI (thanks to Kurt)
• Update time option is now honoured
• Config handling fixed
• Status reporting improvement
• Recent connection support
• Tru64 patch from Tom Leitner (thanks for applying it Kalle)

Homepage: http://apps.cx/keystone

this is the first status report to remind everyone where we are on our way to the KDE 2.0 release.

Current Status
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27 days until the KDE 2.0 Feature Freeze
4 weeks until KDE 1.92 will be released
7 weeks until KDE 2.0 RC 1 will be released
10 weeks until KDE 2.0 will be released

Milestones
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For now, the next important milestone is July 17th, when a decision will be made which applications will be in the 2.0 release, and which applications will be moved to kdenonbeta until they are fit.

July 17th will also be the day when all messages (text strings in the source-code) will be frozen to allow the translations to get in sync.

On July 20th, the features for KDE 2.0 will be frozen. After that date, only bug fixes will be possible.

TODO
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• Fix bugs
• implement missing features
• improve documentation and translations

Release schedule:
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As a reminder, the current release schedule can be found at

http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/release-schedule.html

Bye,
Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel

An excerpt from the article:

"However, a new release, KDE version 2, has been in development for quite some time, and is slated for release as a stable product in late summer or early fall. This is not a simple upgrade or bug fixes. KDE 2 has been completely rewritten from the ground up, and sports hundreds of improvements and many new applications."

To read the entire article click here.

From the article, "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."

Check out the article here.

The KDE Team just announced the release the second beta, affectionately named Kleopatra, part of the series bound to bring us the excellent KDE-2.0 final release.

Many thanks go to the hard working developers, who agreed to keep in strong hold their natural temptation towards iterative innovation, and resorted only to bug fixing.

The unsung heroes are the nummerous voluntary tester users, that sent many problem reports and sometimes even fixes.

Read the press release to learn all the tasty details. You should be able to find source packages and binaries on your mirror of the KDE FTP site. Let's the 1 minute party begin, then back to debugging :-)

The Article

Things to know about this schedule: the beta releases are thought as developer releases so we strongly discourage basing productive work or final-release quality products on them; the schedule will perhaps change without notice, depending on the needs of the near future development.

Thanks go to Kurt for the good news.

"The purpose of this mailing list is to discuss the development of tools and code to allow KDE to integrate nicely with Java. This includes JNI bindings to kdelibs, Java support for Konqueror, and porting the AWT to use Qt/KDE. I am sure there are other topics worth discussing too."

You can subscribe to this list through e-mail, sending an usual "subscribe your@email.addr" message at kde-java-request@kde.org or you can use the web interface.

Let's wish long life and bright accomplishments to the KDE-Java SIG.

Hello,

This is the announcement of Kalamaris 0.6.0, a mathematics research framework which is similar to Mathe**tica in some aspects, while offering a new approach to solve mathematical problems and simulate physics models in an easy way.

Kalamaris is a next generation scientific framework that tries to be at the same time fast and precise on numerical problems and elegant on symbolic algebraic operations.

Kalamaris is a KDE application with an easy to use and intuitive interface.

The main features are:

• Matrix support (and even matrices inside matrices)
• The user can define his/her own functions and variables
• Evaluates functions numerically or symbolic
• Plots (and animates) functions or sets of data in 2D (with zoom)
• Symbolic derivatives
• Solves systems of differential equations using various numerical methods   (Runge-Kutta 3/4, Fehlberg 7/8, Adams-Bashforth, etc.)
• Animates sets of data in a 3D viewer using an advanced UI (Mesa)
• Thanks to a DCOP interface, you can write scripts in python, perl or even   shell scripts to send commands to Kalamaris.

To run it, you'll need a recent kdelibs snapshot from KDE's CVS (the Konfucious or Kleopatra releases will also work), as well as Qt 2.1.x, Qt's openGL extension, Mesa, and libgmp.