https://community.kde.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Dario&feedformat=atomKDE Community Wiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T23:29:31ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.40.2https://community.kde.org/index.php?title=User:Hans&diff=1941User:Hans2010-02-08T01:26:34Z<p>Dario: /* Workspaces */</p>
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<div>= Workspaces =<br />
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== Plasma Desktop ==<br />
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Done [Dario Andres]<br />
<s><br />
And if what you are looking for is not available, you can look among the '''tens of''' available widgets online.<br />
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>> tens of thousands of<br />
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If you want to organize your space, Plasma Desktop allows you to group your widgets into distinct activities, '''to suit better your''' usage tasks.<br />
<br />
>> to better suit your<br />
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Thanks to its authorization framework, administrators can set policies easily, '''making possible''' to use it in kiosks or public computers<br />
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>> making it possible<br />
</s><br />
== Plasma Netbook ==<br />
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Partly Done [Dario ANdres]<br />
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<s><br />
The '''Plasma Netbook Workspace''' at a glance<br />
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>> Plasma Netbook workspace (?)<br />
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If you use a small, portable device such as a netbook, then the '''Plasma Netbook Workspace'''<br />
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>> Plasma Netbook workspace (?)<br />
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The Plasma Netbook's Search and Launch (SAL) interface provides a slick-looking and convenient access to all your '''application''' either by browsing or just by writing its name<br />
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>> applications<br />
</s><br />
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Whatever content you need, Plasma Desktop allows you to get it easily and without delays.<br />
<br />
>> Seems like a bold promise..<br />
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The Plasma Netbook allows you to organize your computer the way you want. [...]<br />
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>> And how is this different from Plasma Desktop?<br />
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= Applications =<br />
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== Graphics ==<br />
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DOne [Dario AndreS]<br />
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<s><br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/digikam/<br />
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Organization of '''Photos in Albums and sub-Albums''' (with tags and comments support)<br />
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>> photos in albums and sub-albums<br />
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(more at http://www.digikam.org/drupal/about?q=about/features)<br />
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>> Should be a link?<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/kcoloredit/<br />
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KColorEdit is a very '''usefull''' tool that makes more easy and '''fun edit''' and create color palettes.<br />
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>> useful <br /><br />
>> fun to edit<br />
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etc)<br />
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>> etc.) (?) (two places)<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/kgraphviewer/<br />
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'''Mull''' featured printing<br />
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>> Full (?)<br />
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http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/kiconedit/<br />
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KIconEdit is a tool designed to help '''create''' icons using the standard color palette.<br />
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>> creating (?)<br />
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Undo and redo on many '''functions.'''<br />
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>> functions (remove dot)<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/kruler/<br />
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KRuler displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Position the 0 to your starting point (simple drag it), and read off (top left of the ruler) the precise pixel count to your cursor.<br />
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>> The last sentence seems a bit unnecessary, "KRuler displays a ruler on the screen, which makes it easy to measure pixels."<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/kuickshow/<br />
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>> Remove all the dots in the Features list<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/skanlite/<br />
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Skanlite is a simple image scanning application that does nothing more than scan and save images, based on the KSane '''backend'''<br />
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>> backend. (add dot)<br />
</s><br />
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== Games ==<br />
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[Dario Andres] Done<br />
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<s><br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/bomber/<br />
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The goal of the game is to destroy all the buildings and advance to the next level. Each level '''gets a harder''' by increasing the speed of the plane and the height of the buildings.<br />
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>> "gets a bit harder" on "gets harder"<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/katomic/<br />
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KAtomic is '''both fun''' and educational game built around molecular geometry.<br />
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>> "both a fun" (?)<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kblocks/<br />
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The idea '''is stack''' the falling blocks '''in a way that lines are completely filled'''. <br />
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>> "is to stack" <br /><br />
>> "to create horizontal lines without any gaps" (?)<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kbounce/<br />
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It is played on a field, surrounded by wall, with two or more balls '''that move about in the field bouncing off of walls'''. '''The player can build new walls, decreasing the size of active field.'''<br />
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>> "bouncing around within the walls" <br /><br />
>> "The object of the game is to build new walls to decrease the size of the active field."<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/klines/<br />
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KLines is a simple but highly '''addictive, one player''' game '''for KDE'''. KLines '''has been inspired by well known game of Color Lines''', written by Olga Demina, Igor Ivkin and Gennady Denisov back in 1992.<br />
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>> "addictive one player" <br /><br />
>> Is this still correct after rebranding? <br /><br />
>> "was inspired by the well known game Color Lines"; is this really what the reader wants to know?<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kmines/<br />
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KMines is '''the''' classic Minesweeper game.<br />
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>> "a"<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/knetwalk/<br />
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KNetWalk is a small game where you have to build up a '''computer-network''' by '''putting the rigth wires into the right order.''' <br />
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>> "computer network" <br /><br />
>> Not really true; "by rotating the wires to connect the terminals(?) to the server(?)"<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kblackbox/<br />
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KBlackbox is a game of hide and seek played on a grid of boxes where the computer has hidden several balls.<br />
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>> + "The position of the hidden balls can be deduced by shooting beams into the box."<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kgoldrunner/<br />
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KGoldrunner''' is jump''' and run/puzzle/logic game.<br />
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>> "is a jump" (what's a jump game anyway?)<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kmahjongg/<br />
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The '''player then is''' expected to remove all the tiles off the game board by locating each tile's matching pair.<br />
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>> "player is" or "player is then"<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kpat/<br />
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Screenshot<br />
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>> I miss the Solitaire/Patience screenshot, because that's what most Windows users will recognize. :)<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/ksame/<br />
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The idea behind KSame is to to completely clear the game board filled with the multicolored marbles<br />
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>> + "by removing groups of adjoining balls(?) of the same color."<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kspaceduel/<br />
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In KSpaceDuel each of two possible '''players controls''' a satellite spaceship orbiting the sun. As the game progresses players have to eliminate''' opponent's spacecraft.'''<br />
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>> "players control" (?) <br /><br />
>> "the opponent's spacecraft with bullets or mines."<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/ksquares/<br />
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"KSquares is a game modeled after the well known pen and paper based game of Dots and Boxes."<br />
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>> Doesn't tell me much.. + "Each player takes it in turns to draw a line between two adjacent dots on the board. The objective is to complete more squares than your opponents."<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kteatime/<br />
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>> Does this one really belong to games? (Not toys?)<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kapman/<br />
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You must go through the levels escaping ghosts in a maze. You lose a life when a ghost eats you, but you can eat the ghosts for a few seconds when eating an energizer. You win points when eating pills, energizers, and bonus, and you win one life for each 10,000 points. When you have eaten all the pills and energizers of a level, you go to the next level, and the player and ghost speeds increase. The game ends when you have lost all your lives.<br />
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>> A bit too wordy. "You must run through the maze to eat all pills without being captured by a ghost. By eating an energizer, Kapman gets the ability to eat ghosts for a few seconds. When a stage is cleared of pills and energizers, the player is taken to the next stage with slightly increased game speed."<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kolf/<br />
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Kolf is a miniature golf game''', developed by Jason Katz-Brown in 2002'''.<br />
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>> This kind of information isn't written for any other game<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/ksirk/<br />
<br />
KsirK is a computerized version of '''a well known strategy board game'''. '''KsirK is a multi-player network-playable game with an AI'''. The goal of the game is simply to conquer '''the World... It is done by attacking''' your '''neighbours''' with your armies.<br />
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>> Which one? "the well known strategic board game Risk" <br /><br />
>> This can be written under Features. <br /><br />
>> "the world by attacking" <br /><br />
>> "neighbors" (En US?)<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kubrick/<br />
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or you can make up your '''own puzzles...'''<br />
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>> "own puzzles."<br />
</s><br />
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== System ==<br />
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[Dario Andres]<br />
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<s>* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/kappfinder/<br />
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>> Old window deco and wallpaper</s><br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/kdepartitionmanager/<br />
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>> Non-composite screenshot<br />
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<s>* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/kinfocenter/<br />
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>> Old window deco and wallpaper</s><br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/ksystemlog/<br />
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>> Non-composite screenshot<br />
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<s>* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/kioskadmintool/<br />
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lock down settings or otherwise restrict features of the '''KDE desktop'''. (KDE3)<br />
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>> Doesn't fit the current branding<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/dolphin/<br />
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>> Bold text in Features isn't consistent with other pages (?)<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/printerapplet/<br />
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'''shows current print jobs, shows printer warnings and errors''' and '''shows when printers that have been plugged in for the first time are being auto-configured by hal-cups-utils.'''<br />
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>> "shows current print jobs, printer warnings and errors" <br /><br />
>> Too technical? "displays when newly plugged in printers has been auto-configured" (?)<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/yakuake/<br />
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>> I don't like the screenshot :P Here's one from my system (although it doesn't use all default options):<br />
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http://community.kde.org/File:Yakuake_h.png<br />
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I also have one with more transparency, and I can take one with an empty session if wanted.<br />
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</s><br />
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----<br />
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== Education ==<br />
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[Dario Andres] All the changes were uploaded. I splitted Marble description into feature items. Please check them. Regards <br /><br />
[Hans Chen] Thanks!<br />
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----<br />
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<s>* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/khangman/<br />
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"The game has several categories of words to play with '''and among them:''' Animals (animals words) and three difficulty categories: Easy, Medium and Hard."<br />
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>> "The game has several categories of words to play with''', for example''' Animals (animals words)''',''' and three difficulty categories: Easy, Medium and Hard."<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/kalgebra/<br />
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"apable to make simple MathML operations "<br />
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>> "'''c'''apable to make simple MathML operations "<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/kstars/<br />
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"The display includes '''upto''' 100 million stars"<br />
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>> "The display includes '''up to''' 100 million stars"<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/kalzium/<br />
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"Is a program that visualizes the Periodic Table of Elements"<br />
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>> "'''It''' is a program that visualizes the Periodic Table of Elements"<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/kig/<br />
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Doesn't seem to follow the other description styles.<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/marble/<br />
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Too wordy, could put some under "Features" instead.<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/klettres/<br />
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"KLettres is an application specially designed to '''do''' help the user to"<br />
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>> "KLettres is an application specially designed to help the user to"<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/kmplot/<br />
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"KmPlot is a program to draw graphs, thei'''t''' integrals or '''their''' '''derivations'''"<br />
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>> "KmPlot is a program to draw graphs, thei'''r''' integrals or '''derivatives''' (?)"<br />
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"the '''carthesic''' or the polar system"<br />
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>> "the '''Cartesian''' or the polar '''coordinate''' system"<br />
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</s></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=User:Hans&diff=1940User:Hans2010-02-08T01:14:41Z<p>Dario: /* Graphics */</p>
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<div>= Workspaces =<br />
<br />
== Plasma Desktop ==<br />
<br />
And if what you are looking for is not available, you can look among the '''tens of''' available widgets online.<br />
<br />
>> tens of thousands of<br />
<br />
If you want to organize your space, Plasma Desktop allows you to group your widgets into distinct activities, '''to suit better your''' usage tasks.<br />
<br />
>> to better suit your<br />
<br />
Thanks to its authorization framework, administrators can set policies easily, '''making possible''' to use it in kiosks or public computers<br />
<br />
>> making it possible<br />
<br />
== Plasma Netbook ==<br />
<br />
The '''Plasma Netbook Workspace''' at a glance<br />
<br />
>> Plasma Netbook workspace (?)<br />
<br />
If you use a small, portable device such as a netbook, then the '''Plasma Netbook Workspace'''<br />
<br />
>> Plasma Netbook workspace (?)<br />
<br />
The Plasma Netbook's Search and Launch (SAL) interface provides a slick-looking and convenient access to all your '''application''' either by browsing or just by writing its name<br />
<br />
>> applications<br />
<br />
Whatever content you need, Plasma Desktop allows you to get it easily and without delays.<br />
<br />
>> Seems like a bold promise..<br />
<br />
The Plasma Netbook allows you to organize your computer the way you want. [...]<br />
<br />
>> And how is this different from Plasma Desktop?<br />
<br />
= Applications =<br />
<br />
== Graphics ==<br />
<br />
DOne [Dario AndreS]<br />
<br />
<s><br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/digikam/<br />
<br />
Organization of '''Photos in Albums and sub-Albums''' (with tags and comments support)<br />
<br />
>> photos in albums and sub-albums<br />
<br />
(more at http://www.digikam.org/drupal/about?q=about/features)<br />
<br />
>> Should be a link?<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/kcoloredit/<br />
<br />
KColorEdit is a very '''usefull''' tool that makes more easy and '''fun edit''' and create color palettes.<br />
<br />
>> useful <br /><br />
>> fun to edit<br />
<br />
etc)<br />
<br />
>> etc.) (?) (two places)<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/kgraphviewer/<br />
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'''Mull''' featured printing<br />
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>> Full (?)<br />
<br />
http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/kiconedit/<br />
<br />
KIconEdit is a tool designed to help '''create''' icons using the standard color palette.<br />
<br />
>> creating (?)<br />
<br />
Undo and redo on many '''functions.'''<br />
<br />
>> functions (remove dot)<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/kruler/<br />
<br />
KRuler displays on screen a ruler measuring pixels. Position the 0 to your starting point (simple drag it), and read off (top left of the ruler) the precise pixel count to your cursor.<br />
<br />
>> The last sentence seems a bit unnecessary, "KRuler displays a ruler on the screen, which makes it easy to measure pixels."<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/kuickshow/<br />
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>> Remove all the dots in the Features list<br />
<br />
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* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/graphics/skanlite/<br />
<br />
Skanlite is a simple image scanning application that does nothing more than scan and save images, based on the KSane '''backend'''<br />
<br />
>> backend. (add dot)<br />
</s><br />
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== Games ==<br />
<br />
[Dario Andres] Done<br />
<br />
<s><br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/bomber/<br />
<br />
The goal of the game is to destroy all the buildings and advance to the next level. Each level '''gets a harder''' by increasing the speed of the plane and the height of the buildings.<br />
<br />
>> "gets a bit harder" on "gets harder"<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/katomic/<br />
<br />
KAtomic is '''both fun''' and educational game built around molecular geometry.<br />
<br />
>> "both a fun" (?)<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kblocks/<br />
<br />
The idea '''is stack''' the falling blocks '''in a way that lines are completely filled'''. <br />
<br />
>> "is to stack" <br /><br />
>> "to create horizontal lines without any gaps" (?)<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kbounce/<br />
<br />
It is played on a field, surrounded by wall, with two or more balls '''that move about in the field bouncing off of walls'''. '''The player can build new walls, decreasing the size of active field.'''<br />
<br />
>> "bouncing around within the walls" <br /><br />
>> "The object of the game is to build new walls to decrease the size of the active field."<br />
<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/klines/<br />
<br />
KLines is a simple but highly '''addictive, one player''' game '''for KDE'''. KLines '''has been inspired by well known game of Color Lines''', written by Olga Demina, Igor Ivkin and Gennady Denisov back in 1992.<br />
<br />
>> "addictive one player" <br /><br />
>> Is this still correct after rebranding? <br /><br />
>> "was inspired by the well known game Color Lines"; is this really what the reader wants to know?<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kmines/<br />
<br />
KMines is '''the''' classic Minesweeper game.<br />
<br />
>> "a"<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/knetwalk/<br />
<br />
KNetWalk is a small game where you have to build up a '''computer-network''' by '''putting the rigth wires into the right order.''' <br />
<br />
>> "computer network" <br /><br />
>> Not really true; "by rotating the wires to connect the terminals(?) to the server(?)"<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kblackbox/<br />
<br />
KBlackbox is a game of hide and seek played on a grid of boxes where the computer has hidden several balls.<br />
<br />
>> + "The position of the hidden balls can be deduced by shooting beams into the box."<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kgoldrunner/<br />
<br />
KGoldrunner''' is jump''' and run/puzzle/logic game.<br />
<br />
>> "is a jump" (what's a jump game anyway?)<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kmahjongg/<br />
<br />
The '''player then is''' expected to remove all the tiles off the game board by locating each tile's matching pair.<br />
<br />
>> "player is" or "player is then"<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kpat/<br />
<br />
Screenshot<br />
<br />
>> I miss the Solitaire/Patience screenshot, because that's what most Windows users will recognize. :)<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/ksame/<br />
<br />
The idea behind KSame is to to completely clear the game board filled with the multicolored marbles<br />
<br />
>> + "by removing groups of adjoining balls(?) of the same color."<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kspaceduel/<br />
<br />
In KSpaceDuel each of two possible '''players controls''' a satellite spaceship orbiting the sun. As the game progresses players have to eliminate''' opponent's spacecraft.'''<br />
<br />
>> "players control" (?) <br /><br />
>> "the opponent's spacecraft with bullets or mines."<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/ksquares/<br />
<br />
"KSquares is a game modeled after the well known pen and paper based game of Dots and Boxes."<br />
<br />
>> Doesn't tell me much.. + "Each player takes it in turns to draw a line between two adjacent dots on the board. The objective is to complete more squares than your opponents."<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kteatime/<br />
<br />
>> Does this one really belong to games? (Not toys?)<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kapman/<br />
<br />
You must go through the levels escaping ghosts in a maze. You lose a life when a ghost eats you, but you can eat the ghosts for a few seconds when eating an energizer. You win points when eating pills, energizers, and bonus, and you win one life for each 10,000 points. When you have eaten all the pills and energizers of a level, you go to the next level, and the player and ghost speeds increase. The game ends when you have lost all your lives.<br />
<br />
>> A bit too wordy. "You must run through the maze to eat all pills without being captured by a ghost. By eating an energizer, Kapman gets the ability to eat ghosts for a few seconds. When a stage is cleared of pills and energizers, the player is taken to the next stage with slightly increased game speed."<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kolf/<br />
<br />
Kolf is a miniature golf game''', developed by Jason Katz-Brown in 2002'''.<br />
<br />
>> This kind of information isn't written for any other game<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/ksirk/<br />
<br />
KsirK is a computerized version of '''a well known strategy board game'''. '''KsirK is a multi-player network-playable game with an AI'''. The goal of the game is simply to conquer '''the World... It is done by attacking''' your '''neighbours''' with your armies.<br />
<br />
>> Which one? "the well known strategic board game Risk" <br /><br />
>> This can be written under Features. <br /><br />
>> "the world by attacking" <br /><br />
>> "neighbors" (En US?)<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/games/kubrick/<br />
<br />
or you can make up your '''own puzzles...'''<br />
<br />
>> "own puzzles."<br />
</s><br />
<br />
== System ==<br />
<br />
[Dario Andres]<br />
<br />
<s>* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/kappfinder/<br />
<br />
>> Old window deco and wallpaper</s><br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/kdepartitionmanager/<br />
<br />
>> Non-composite screenshot<br />
<br />
<s>* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/kinfocenter/<br />
<br />
>> Old window deco and wallpaper</s><br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/ksystemlog/<br />
<br />
>> Non-composite screenshot<br />
<br />
<s>* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/kioskadmintool/<br />
<br />
lock down settings or otherwise restrict features of the '''KDE desktop'''. (KDE3)<br />
<br />
>> Doesn't fit the current branding<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/dolphin/<br />
<br />
>> Bold text in Features isn't consistent with other pages (?)<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/printerapplet/<br />
<br />
'''shows current print jobs, shows printer warnings and errors''' and '''shows when printers that have been plugged in for the first time are being auto-configured by hal-cups-utils.'''<br />
<br />
>> "shows current print jobs, printer warnings and errors" <br /><br />
>> Too technical? "displays when newly plugged in printers has been auto-configured" (?)<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/system/yakuake/<br />
<br />
>> I don't like the screenshot :P Here's one from my system (although it doesn't use all default options):<br />
<br />
http://community.kde.org/File:Yakuake_h.png<br />
<br />
I also have one with more transparency, and I can take one with an empty session if wanted.<br />
<br />
</s><br />
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----<br />
<br />
== Education ==<br />
<br />
[Dario Andres] All the changes were uploaded. I splitted Marble description into feature items. Please check them. Regards <br /><br />
[Hans Chen] Thanks!<br />
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----<br />
<br />
<s>* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/khangman/<br />
<br />
"The game has several categories of words to play with '''and among them:''' Animals (animals words) and three difficulty categories: Easy, Medium and Hard."<br />
<br />
>> "The game has several categories of words to play with''', for example''' Animals (animals words)''',''' and three difficulty categories: Easy, Medium and Hard."<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/kalgebra/<br />
<br />
"apable to make simple MathML operations "<br />
<br />
>> "'''c'''apable to make simple MathML operations "<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/kstars/<br />
<br />
"The display includes '''upto''' 100 million stars"<br />
<br />
>> "The display includes '''up to''' 100 million stars"<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/kalzium/<br />
<br />
"Is a program that visualizes the Periodic Table of Elements"<br />
<br />
>> "'''It''' is a program that visualizes the Periodic Table of Elements"<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/kig/<br />
<br />
Doesn't seem to follow the other description styles.<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/marble/<br />
<br />
Too wordy, could put some under "Features" instead.<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/klettres/<br />
<br />
"KLettres is an application specially designed to '''do''' help the user to"<br />
<br />
>> "KLettres is an application specially designed to help the user to"<br />
<br />
* http://www-devel.kde.org/applications/education/kmplot/<br />
<br />
"KmPlot is a program to draw graphs, thei'''t''' integrals or '''their''' '''derivations'''"<br />
<br />
>> "KmPlot is a program to draw graphs, thei'''r''' integrals or '''derivatives''' (?)"<br />
<br />
"the '''carthesic''' or the polar system"<br />
<br />
>> "the '''Cartesian''' or the polar '''coordinate''' system"<br />
<br />
</s></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/Project_Awards&diff=1934KDE Project History/Project Awards2010-02-07T15:57:49Z<p>Dario: /* 2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards */</p>
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<div>==Awards in 2009==<br />
<br />
===KDE voted Free Software Project of the Year===<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_LXF-Logo.png]]<br />
<br />
[http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ Linux Format] magazine has unveiled its annual Reader Awards ([http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/download.php?PDF=LXF115.awards.pdf PDF]) for 2008 and KDE won a 'landslide' victory in the category of Free Software Project of the year in recognition of the 'incredible' work done with KDE 4. [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok], [http://www.konqueror.org/ Konqueror], Qt and the KDE-based Asus Eee PC were also recognised in the awards.<br />
<br />
Read more in the [http://dot.kde.org/2009/01/20/kde-voted-free-software-project-year dot-article.]<br />
<br />
==Awards in 2008==<br />
<br />
===KDE-Applications win Linux Journal's Reader's Choice Award 2008===<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_ReadersChoice2008.png]]<br />
<br />
The readers of [http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Linux Journal] chose the KDE-Applications [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok] as their [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 Favorite Audio Tool] and [http://www.digikam.org/ digiKam] as their [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool].<br />
<br />
===2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards===<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_2008DE.png]]<br />
<br />
KDE won again the [http://www.linuxquestions.org/ LinuxQuestions.org] Members' Choice Award [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2008-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/ Desktop Environment of the Year].<br />
<br />
Not only the Desktop Enviroment recieved excellent remarks. Also some KDE-Applications were voted number one in their categories. Amarok is by far the most popular application in the category [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/Audio Media Player Application of the Year] and K3b is the favoured [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/ Multimedia Utility of the Year].<br />
<br />
==Awards in 2007==<br />
<br />
===2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards===<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_2007DE.png]]<br />
<br />
KDE is again [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/ Desktop Environment of the Year]. The following KDE-Applications were voted number one in their categories by the members of [http://www.linuxquestions.org/ LinuxQuestions.org]. Amarok ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/ Audio Media Player Application of the Year]), K3b ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/ Multimedia Utility of the Year]) and Konqueror ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/file-manager-of-the-year-610231/ File Manager of the Year]).</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_2007DE.png&diff=1933File:KDEProjectHistory PressAwards 2007DE.png2010-02-07T15:57:34Z<p>Dario: </p>
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<div></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/Project_Awards&diff=1932KDE Project History/Project Awards2010-02-07T15:57:02Z<p>Dario: /* 2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Awards in 2009==<br />
<br />
===KDE voted Free Software Project of the Year===<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_LXF-Logo.png]]<br />
<br />
[http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ Linux Format] magazine has unveiled its annual Reader Awards ([http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/download.php?PDF=LXF115.awards.pdf PDF]) for 2008 and KDE won a 'landslide' victory in the category of Free Software Project of the year in recognition of the 'incredible' work done with KDE 4. [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok], [http://www.konqueror.org/ Konqueror], Qt and the KDE-based Asus Eee PC were also recognised in the awards.<br />
<br />
Read more in the [http://dot.kde.org/2009/01/20/kde-voted-free-software-project-year dot-article.]<br />
<br />
==Awards in 2008==<br />
<br />
===KDE-Applications win Linux Journal's Reader's Choice Award 2008===<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_ReadersChoice2008.png]]<br />
<br />
The readers of [http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Linux Journal] chose the KDE-Applications [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok] as their [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 Favorite Audio Tool] and [http://www.digikam.org/ digiKam] as their [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool].<br />
<br />
===2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards===<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_2008DE.png]]<br />
<br />
KDE won again the [http://www.linuxquestions.org/ LinuxQuestions.org] Members' Choice Award [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2008-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/ Desktop Environment of the Year].<br />
<br />
Not only the Desktop Enviroment recieved excellent remarks. Also some KDE-Applications were voted number one in their categories. Amarok is by far the most popular application in the category [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/Audio Media Player Application of the Year] and K3b is the favoured [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/ Multimedia Utility of the Year].<br />
<br />
==Awards in 2007==<br />
<br />
===2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards===<br />
LinuxQuestions Award 2007<br />
<br />
KDE is again [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/ Desktop Environment of the Year]. The following KDE-Applications were voted number one in their categories by the members of [http://www.linuxquestions.org/ LinuxQuestions.org]. Amarok ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/ Audio Media Player Application of the Year]), K3b ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/ Multimedia Utility of the Year]) and Konqueror ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/file-manager-of-the-year-610231/ File Manager of the Year]).</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_2008DE.png&diff=1931File:KDEProjectHistory PressAwards 2008DE.png2010-02-07T15:56:55Z<p>Dario: </p>
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<div></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/Project_Awards&diff=1930KDE Project History/Project Awards2010-02-07T15:56:21Z<p>Dario: /* KDE-Applications win Linux Journal's Reader's Choice Award 2008 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Awards in 2009==<br />
<br />
===KDE voted Free Software Project of the Year===<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_LXF-Logo.png]]<br />
<br />
[http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ Linux Format] magazine has unveiled its annual Reader Awards ([http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/download.php?PDF=LXF115.awards.pdf PDF]) for 2008 and KDE won a 'landslide' victory in the category of Free Software Project of the year in recognition of the 'incredible' work done with KDE 4. [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok], [http://www.konqueror.org/ Konqueror], Qt and the KDE-based Asus Eee PC were also recognised in the awards.<br />
<br />
Read more in the [http://dot.kde.org/2009/01/20/kde-voted-free-software-project-year dot-article.]<br />
<br />
==Awards in 2008==<br />
<br />
===KDE-Applications win Linux Journal's Reader's Choice Award 2008===<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_ReadersChoice2008.png]]<br />
<br />
The readers of [http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Linux Journal] chose the KDE-Applications [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok] as their [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 Favorite Audio Tool] and [http://www.digikam.org/ digiKam] as their [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool].<br />
<br />
===2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards===<br />
LinuxQuestions Award 2008<br />
<br />
KDE won again the [http://www.linuxquestions.org/ LinuxQuestions.org] Members' Choice Award [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2008-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/ Desktop Environment of the Year].<br />
<br />
Not only the Desktop Enviroment recieved excellent remarks. Also some KDE-Applications were voted number one in their categories. Amarok is by far the most popular application in the category [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/Audio Media Player Application of the Year] and K3b is the favoured [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/ Multimedia Utility of the Year].<br />
<br />
==Awards in 2007==<br />
<br />
===2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards===<br />
LinuxQuestions Award 2007<br />
<br />
KDE is again [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/ Desktop Environment of the Year]. The following KDE-Applications were voted number one in their categories by the members of [http://www.linuxquestions.org/ LinuxQuestions.org]. Amarok ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/ Audio Media Player Application of the Year]), K3b ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/ Multimedia Utility of the Year]) and Konqueror ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/file-manager-of-the-year-610231/ File Manager of the Year]).</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/Project_Awards&diff=1929KDE Project History/Project Awards2010-02-07T15:56:02Z<p>Dario: /* Awards in 2009 */</p>
<hr />
<div>==Awards in 2009==<br />
<br />
===KDE voted Free Software Project of the Year===<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_LXF-Logo.png]]<br />
<br />
[http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ Linux Format] magazine has unveiled its annual Reader Awards ([http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/download.php?PDF=LXF115.awards.pdf PDF]) for 2008 and KDE won a 'landslide' victory in the category of Free Software Project of the year in recognition of the 'incredible' work done with KDE 4. [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok], [http://www.konqueror.org/ Konqueror], Qt and the KDE-based Asus Eee PC were also recognised in the awards.<br />
<br />
Read more in the [http://dot.kde.org/2009/01/20/kde-voted-free-software-project-year dot-article.]<br />
<br />
==Awards in 2008==<br />
<br />
===KDE-Applications win Linux Journal's Reader's Choice Award 2008===<br />
Linux Journal Readers Choice Award 2008<br />
<br />
The readers of [http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Linux Journal] chose the KDE-Applications [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok] as their [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 Favorite Audio Tool] and [http://www.digikam.org/ digiKam] as their [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool].<br />
<br />
<br />
===2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards===<br />
LinuxQuestions Award 2008<br />
<br />
KDE won again the [http://www.linuxquestions.org/ LinuxQuestions.org] Members' Choice Award [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2008-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/ Desktop Environment of the Year].<br />
<br />
Not only the Desktop Enviroment recieved excellent remarks. Also some KDE-Applications were voted number one in their categories. Amarok is by far the most popular application in the category [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/Audio Media Player Application of the Year] and K3b is the favoured [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/ Multimedia Utility of the Year].<br />
<br />
==Awards in 2007==<br />
<br />
===2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards===<br />
LinuxQuestions Award 2007<br />
<br />
KDE is again [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/ Desktop Environment of the Year]. The following KDE-Applications were voted number one in their categories by the members of [http://www.linuxquestions.org/ LinuxQuestions.org]. Amarok ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/ Audio Media Player Application of the Year]), K3b ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/ Multimedia Utility of the Year]) and Konqueror ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/file-manager-of-the-year-610231/ File Manager of the Year]).</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_ReadersChoice2008.png&diff=1928File:KDEProjectHistory PressAwards ReadersChoice2008.png2010-02-07T15:55:57Z<p>Dario: </p>
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<div></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=File:KDEProjectHistory_PressAwards_LXF-Logo.png&diff=1927File:KDEProjectHistory PressAwards LXF-Logo.png2010-02-07T15:55:19Z<p>Dario: </p>
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<div></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History&diff=1926KDE Project History2010-02-07T15:32:14Z<p>Dario: Blanked the page</p>
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<div></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History&diff=1923KDE Project History2010-02-07T15:02:02Z<p>Dario: /* KDE in the Press */</p>
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<div>The KDE project started on October 14th 1996 (and the project has thus celebrated its tenth birthday already) with a call for programmers in comp.os.linux.misc: the [[#|original announcement of the KDE Project in 1996]] (use Google™ Groups to find the [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/tree/browse_frm/thread/4836e257721ab7fb/cb4b2d67ffc3ffce?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.os.linux.misc%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F4836e257721ab7fb%2F10e10a7a9e08943b%3Flnk%3Dgst%26#doc_cb4b2d67ffc3ffce original posting]).<br />
<br />
At the 2003 Kastle conference ''Matthias Kalle Dalheimer'' gave a [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle/presentations/kastle-history/index.html presentation] about the history of the KDE project.<br />
<br />
==Developer Meetings==<br />
<br />
There have been roughly yearly large-scale developer meetings for the KDE community since very early in the project. Since the [http://ev.kde.org/ KDE e.V.] was created the yearly meeting is a requirement of its bylaws, so we can count on it now.<br />
<br />
* [http://akademy2009.kde.org/ Akademy 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain] <br />
* [http://akademy2008.kde.org/ Akademy 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium]<br />
* [http://akademy2007.kde.org/ aKademy 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland]<br />
* [http://conference2006.kde.org/ aKademy 2006 - Dublin, Ireland]<br />
* [http://conference2005.kde.org/ aKademy 2005 - Málaga, Spain]<br />
* [http://conference2004.kde.org/ aKademy 2004 - Ludwigsburg, Germany]<br />
* [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle Kastle - Nové Hrady, Czech Republic 2003]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three - Nürnberg, Germany, 2002]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_Beta_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three Beta - Trysil, Norway 2000]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Two_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Two - Erlangen, Germany 1999]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE One - Arnsberg, Germany 1997]]<br />
<br />
==Developer Awards==<br />
<br />
The KDE Appreciation Awards, also known as the "aKademy Awards", are awards that the KDE community gives to KDE contributors. Their purpose is to recognize outstanding contribution to KDE. They are given in a yearly basis inside the yearly aKademy conference. There are three awards, best application, best contribution to KDE and the Jury's Choice Award. <br />
<br />
===aKademy Awards 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' Mark Kretschmann, Nuno Pinheiro, Aaron Seigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2009.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' Peter Penz for [http://dolphin.kde.org/ Dolphin].<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' Celeste Lyn Paul for her usability work.<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' David Faure for greatest service to KDE.<br />
<br />
===aKademy Awards 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' Sebastian Trueg, Matthias Kretz and Danny Allen. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2008.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' Mark Kretschmann for [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok].<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' Nuno Pinheiro for [http://www.oxygen-icons.org/ Oxygen].<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' Aaron Seigo for [http://plasma.kde.org/ Plasma]. <br />
<br />
===aKademy Awards 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' [http://behindkde.org/people/boud/ Boudewijn Rempt], [http://behindkde.org/people/neundorf/ Alexander Neundorf] and Laurent Montel. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2007.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' [http://behindkde.org/people/trueg/ Sebastian Trueg] for [http://www.k3b.org/ K3b].<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' Matthias Kretz for [http://phonon.kde.org/ Phonon].<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' Danny Allen for the [http://commit-digest.org/ KDE Commit-Digest]. <br />
<br />
===aKademy Awards 2006 - Dublin, Ireland===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' [http://behindkde.org/people/aacid Albert Astals Cid], Enrico Ros, [http://www.behindkde.org/people/lauri/ Lauri Watts], [http://www.behindkde.org/people/stephan/ Stephan Kulow] and Oswald Buddenhagen. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2006.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/boud/ Boudewijn Rempt] for [http://www.koffice.org/krita/ Krita].<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/neundorf/ Alexander Neundorf] for his work on [http://www.cmake.org/ CMake] in KDE4.<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' Laurent Montel for KDE4 Commit Champion. <br />
<br />
===aKademy Awards 2005 - Málaga, Spain===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/aseigo/ Aaron Seigo], Brad Hards, [http://www.behindkde.org/people/david/ David Faure] and [http://www.behindkde.org/people/ettrich/ Matthias Ettrich]. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2005.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/aacid/ Albert Astals Cid] and Enrico Ros for [http://kpdf.kde.org/ KPDF].<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/lauri/ Lauri Watts] for the [http://docs.kde.org/ KDE documentation].<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/stephan/ Stephan Kulow] and Oswald Buddenhagen for [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] migration.</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/Project_Awards&diff=1922KDE Project History/Project Awards2010-02-07T14:48:54Z<p>Dario: </p>
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<div>==Awards in 2009==<br />
<br />
===KDE voted Free Software Project of the Year===<br />
Linux Format Readers Choice Award 2009<br />
<br />
[http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ Linux Format] magazine has unveiled its annual Reader Awards ([http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/download.php?PDF=LXF115.awards.pdf PDF]) for 2008 and KDE won a 'landslide' victory in the category of Free Software Project of the year in recognition of the 'incredible' work done with KDE 4. [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok], [http://www.konqueror.org/ Konqueror], Qt and the KDE-based Asus Eee PC were also recognised in the awards.<br />
<br />
Read more in the [http://dot.kde.org/2009/01/20/kde-voted-free-software-project-year dot-article.]<br />
<br />
==Awards in 2008==<br />
<br />
===KDE-Applications win Linux Journal's Reader's Choice Award 2008===<br />
Linux Journal Readers Choice Award 2008<br />
<br />
The readers of [http://www.linuxjournal.com/ Linux Journal] chose the KDE-Applications [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok] as their [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 Favorite Audio Tool] and [http://www.digikam.org/ digiKam] as their [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10065 Favorite Digital Photo Management Tool].<br />
<br />
<br />
===2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards===<br />
LinuxQuestions Award 2008<br />
<br />
KDE won again the [http://www.linuxquestions.org/ LinuxQuestions.org] Members' Choice Award [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2008-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/ Desktop Environment of the Year].<br />
<br />
Not only the Desktop Enviroment recieved excellent remarks. Also some KDE-Applications were voted number one in their categories. Amarok is by far the most popular application in the category [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/Audio Media Player Application of the Year] and K3b is the favoured [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/ Multimedia Utility of the Year].<br />
<br />
==Awards in 2007==<br />
<br />
===2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members' Choice Awards===<br />
LinuxQuestions Award 2007<br />
<br />
KDE is again [http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/desktop-environment-of-the-year-610190/ Desktop Environment of the Year]. The following KDE-Applications were voted number one in their categories by the members of [http://www.linuxquestions.org/ LinuxQuestions.org]. Amarok ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/audio-media-player-application-of-the-year-610226/ Audio Media Player Application of the Year]), K3b ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/multimedia-utility-of-the-year-610224/ Multimedia Utility of the Year]) and Konqueror ([http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2007-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-79/file-manager-of-the-year-610231/ File Manager of the Year]).</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/Project_Awards&diff=1921KDE Project History/Project Awards2010-02-07T14:40:25Z<p>Dario: Created page with '==Awards in 2009== ===KDE voted Free Software Project of the Year=== Linux Format Readers Choice Award 2009 [http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ Linux Format] magazine has unveiled i...'</p>
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<div>==Awards in 2009==<br />
<br />
===KDE voted Free Software Project of the Year===<br />
Linux Format Readers Choice Award 2009<br />
<br />
[http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/ Linux Format] magazine has unveiled its annual Reader Awards ([http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/pdfs/download.php?PDF=LXF115.awards.pdf PDF]) for 2008 and KDE won a 'landslide' victory in the category of Free Software Project of the year in recognition of the 'incredible' work done with KDE 4. [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok], [http://www.konqueror.org/ Konqueror], Qt and the KDE-based Asus Eee PC were also recognised in the awards.<br />
<br />
Read more in the [http://dot.kde.org/2009/01/20/kde-voted-free-software-project-year dot-article.]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History&diff=1920KDE Project History2010-02-07T14:34:49Z<p>Dario: /* Developer Awards */</p>
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<div>The KDE project started on October 14th 1996 (and the project has thus celebrated its tenth birthday already) with a call for programmers in comp.os.linux.misc: the [[#|original announcement of the KDE Project in 1996]] (use Google™ Groups to find the [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/tree/browse_frm/thread/4836e257721ab7fb/cb4b2d67ffc3ffce?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.os.linux.misc%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F4836e257721ab7fb%2F10e10a7a9e08943b%3Flnk%3Dgst%26#doc_cb4b2d67ffc3ffce original posting]).<br />
<br />
At the 2003 Kastle conference ''Matthias Kalle Dalheimer'' gave a [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle/presentations/kastle-history/index.html presentation] about the history of the KDE project.<br />
<br />
==Developer Meetings==<br />
<br />
There have been roughly yearly large-scale developer meetings for the KDE community since very early in the project. Since the [http://ev.kde.org/ KDE e.V.] was created the yearly meeting is a requirement of its bylaws, so we can count on it now.<br />
<br />
* [http://akademy2009.kde.org/ Akademy 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain] <br />
* [http://akademy2008.kde.org/ Akademy 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium]<br />
* [http://akademy2007.kde.org/ aKademy 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland]<br />
* [http://conference2006.kde.org/ aKademy 2006 - Dublin, Ireland]<br />
* [http://conference2005.kde.org/ aKademy 2005 - Málaga, Spain]<br />
* [http://conference2004.kde.org/ aKademy 2004 - Ludwigsburg, Germany]<br />
* [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle Kastle - Nové Hrady, Czech Republic 2003]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three - Nürnberg, Germany, 2002]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_Beta_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three Beta - Trysil, Norway 2000]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Two_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Two - Erlangen, Germany 1999]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE One - Arnsberg, Germany 1997]]<br />
<br />
==Developer Awards==<br />
<br />
The KDE Appreciation Awards, also known as the "aKademy Awards", are awards that the KDE community gives to KDE contributors. Their purpose is to recognize outstanding contribution to KDE. They are given in a yearly basis inside the yearly aKademy conference. There are three awards, best application, best contribution to KDE and the Jury's Choice Award. <br />
<br />
===aKademy Awards 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' Mark Kretschmann, Nuno Pinheiro, Aaron Seigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2009.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' Peter Penz for [http://dolphin.kde.org/ Dolphin].<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' Celeste Lyn Paul for her usability work.<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' David Faure for greatest service to KDE.<br />
<br />
===aKademy Awards 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' Sebastian Trueg, Matthias Kretz and Danny Allen. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2008.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' Mark Kretschmann for [http://amarok.kde.org/ Amarok].<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' Nuno Pinheiro for [http://www.oxygen-icons.org/ Oxygen].<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' Aaron Seigo for [http://plasma.kde.org/ Plasma]. <br />
<br />
===aKademy Awards 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' [http://behindkde.org/people/boud/ Boudewijn Rempt], [http://behindkde.org/people/neundorf/ Alexander Neundorf] and Laurent Montel. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2007.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' [http://behindkde.org/people/trueg/ Sebastian Trueg] for [http://www.k3b.org/ K3b].<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' Matthias Kretz for [http://phonon.kde.org/ Phonon].<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' Danny Allen for the [http://commit-digest.org/ KDE Commit-Digest]. <br />
<br />
===aKademy Awards 2006 - Dublin, Ireland===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' [http://behindkde.org/people/aacid Albert Astals Cid], Enrico Ros, [http://www.behindkde.org/people/lauri/ Lauri Watts], [http://www.behindkde.org/people/stephan/ Stephan Kulow] and Oswald Buddenhagen. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2006.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/boud/ Boudewijn Rempt] for [http://www.koffice.org/krita/ Krita].<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/neundorf/ Alexander Neundorf] for his work on [http://www.cmake.org/ CMake] in KDE4.<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' Laurent Montel for KDE4 Commit Champion. <br />
<br />
===aKademy Awards 2005 - Málaga, Spain===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/aseigo/ Aaron Seigo], Brad Hards, [http://www.behindkde.org/people/david/ David Faure] and [http://www.behindkde.org/people/ettrich/ Matthias Ettrich]. <br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2005.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/aacid/ Albert Astals Cid] and Enrico Ros for [http://kpdf.kde.org/ KPDF].<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/lauri/ Lauri Watts] for the [http://docs.kde.org/ KDE documentation].<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' [http://www.behindkde.org/people/stephan/ Stephan Kulow] and Oswald Buddenhagen for [http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] migration.<br />
<br />
==KDE in the Press==<br />
<br />
Articles about KDE have been collected in this archive of KDE in the press through the year 2000. For more current mentions see the [http://dot.kde.org KDE News site]<br />
<br />
* [# 2000]<br />
* [# 1999]<br />
* [# 1998]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2005.jpg&diff=1919File:KDEProjectHistory AkademyAwards2005.jpg2010-02-07T14:34:32Z<p>Dario: </p>
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<div></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2006.jpg&diff=1918File:KDEProjectHistory AkademyAwards2006.jpg2010-02-07T14:31:26Z<p>Dario: </p>
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<div></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2007.jpg&diff=1917File:KDEProjectHistory AkademyAwards2007.jpg2010-02-07T14:28:19Z<p>Dario: </p>
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<div></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2008.jpg&diff=1916File:KDEProjectHistory AkademyAwards2008.jpg2010-02-07T14:24:51Z<p>Dario: </p>
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<div></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History&diff=1915KDE Project History2010-02-07T14:17:40Z<p>Dario: /* Developer Awards */</p>
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<div>The KDE project started on October 14th 1996 (and the project has thus celebrated its tenth birthday already) with a call for programmers in comp.os.linux.misc: the [[#|original announcement of the KDE Project in 1996]] (use Google™ Groups to find the [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/tree/browse_frm/thread/4836e257721ab7fb/cb4b2d67ffc3ffce?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.os.linux.misc%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F4836e257721ab7fb%2F10e10a7a9e08943b%3Flnk%3Dgst%26#doc_cb4b2d67ffc3ffce original posting]).<br />
<br />
At the 2003 Kastle conference ''Matthias Kalle Dalheimer'' gave a [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle/presentations/kastle-history/index.html presentation] about the history of the KDE project.<br />
<br />
==Developer Meetings==<br />
<br />
There have been roughly yearly large-scale developer meetings for the KDE community since very early in the project. Since the [http://ev.kde.org/ KDE e.V.] was created the yearly meeting is a requirement of its bylaws, so we can count on it now.<br />
<br />
* [http://akademy2009.kde.org/ Akademy 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain] <br />
* [http://akademy2008.kde.org/ Akademy 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium]<br />
* [http://akademy2007.kde.org/ aKademy 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland]<br />
* [http://conference2006.kde.org/ aKademy 2006 - Dublin, Ireland]<br />
* [http://conference2005.kde.org/ aKademy 2005 - Málaga, Spain]<br />
* [http://conference2004.kde.org/ aKademy 2004 - Ludwigsburg, Germany]<br />
* [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle Kastle - Nové Hrady, Czech Republic 2003]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three - Nürnberg, Germany, 2002]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_Beta_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three Beta - Trysil, Norway 2000]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Two_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Two - Erlangen, Germany 1999]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE One - Arnsberg, Germany 1997]]<br />
<br />
==Developer Awards==<br />
<br />
The KDE Appreciation Awards, also known as the "aKademy Awards", are awards that the KDE community gives to KDE contributors. Their purpose is to recognize outstanding contribution to KDE. They are given in a yearly basis inside the yearly aKademy conference. There are three awards, best application, best contribution to KDE and the Jury's Choice Award. <br />
<br />
===Akademy Awards 2009===<br />
<br />
'''Jury:''' Mark Kretschmann, Nuno Pinheiro, Aaron Seigo.<br />
<br />
<br />
[[File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2009.jpg|200px|thumb|center]]<br />
<br />
* '''Best Application:''' Peter Penz for Dolphin.<br />
* '''Best Non-Application:''' Celeste Lyn Paul for her usability work.<br />
* '''Jury's Award:''' David Faure for greatest service to KDE.<br />
<br />
<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/Akademy_Awards_2009|aKademy 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain]]<br />
* [# aKademy 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium]<br />
* [# aKademy 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland]<br />
* [# aKademy 2006 - Dublin, Ireland]<br />
* [# aKademy 2005 - Málaga, Spain]<br />
<br />
==KDE in the Press==<br />
<br />
Articles about KDE have been collected in this archive of KDE in the press through the year 2000. For more current mentions see the [http://dot.kde.org KDE News site]<br />
<br />
* [# 2000]<br />
* [# 1999]<br />
* [# 1998]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=File:KDEProjectHistory_AkademyAwards2009.jpg&diff=1914File:KDEProjectHistory AkademyAwards2009.jpg2010-02-07T14:15:01Z<p>Dario: </p>
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<div></div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History&diff=1913KDE Project History2010-02-07T14:12:39Z<p>Dario: /* Developer Awards */</p>
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<div>The KDE project started on October 14th 1996 (and the project has thus celebrated its tenth birthday already) with a call for programmers in comp.os.linux.misc: the [[#|original announcement of the KDE Project in 1996]] (use Google™ Groups to find the [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/tree/browse_frm/thread/4836e257721ab7fb/cb4b2d67ffc3ffce?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.os.linux.misc%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F4836e257721ab7fb%2F10e10a7a9e08943b%3Flnk%3Dgst%26#doc_cb4b2d67ffc3ffce original posting]).<br />
<br />
At the 2003 Kastle conference ''Matthias Kalle Dalheimer'' gave a [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle/presentations/kastle-history/index.html presentation] about the history of the KDE project.<br />
<br />
==Developer Meetings==<br />
<br />
There have been roughly yearly large-scale developer meetings for the KDE community since very early in the project. Since the [http://ev.kde.org/ KDE e.V.] was created the yearly meeting is a requirement of its bylaws, so we can count on it now.<br />
<br />
* [http://akademy2009.kde.org/ Akademy 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain] <br />
* [http://akademy2008.kde.org/ Akademy 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium]<br />
* [http://akademy2007.kde.org/ aKademy 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland]<br />
* [http://conference2006.kde.org/ aKademy 2006 - Dublin, Ireland]<br />
* [http://conference2005.kde.org/ aKademy 2005 - Málaga, Spain]<br />
* [http://conference2004.kde.org/ aKademy 2004 - Ludwigsburg, Germany]<br />
* [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle Kastle - Nové Hrady, Czech Republic 2003]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three - Nürnberg, Germany, 2002]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_Beta_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three Beta - Trysil, Norway 2000]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Two_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Two - Erlangen, Germany 1999]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE One - Arnsberg, Germany 1997]]<br />
<br />
==Developer Awards==<br />
<br />
The KDE Appreciation Awards, also known as the "aKademy Awards", are awards that the KDE community gives to KDE contributors. Their purpose is to recognize outstanding contribution to KDE. They are given in a yearly basis inside the yearly aKademy conference. There are three awards, best application, best contribution to KDE and the Jury's Choice Award. <br />
<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/Akademy_Awards_2009|aKademy 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain]]<br />
* [# aKademy 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium]<br />
* [# aKademy 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland]<br />
* [# aKademy 2006 - Dublin, Ireland]<br />
* [# aKademy 2005 - Málaga, Spain]<br />
<br />
==KDE in the Press==<br />
<br />
Articles about KDE have been collected in this archive of KDE in the press through the year 2000. For more current mentions see the [http://dot.kde.org KDE News site]<br />
<br />
* [# 2000]<br />
* [# 1999]<br />
* [# 1998]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_(Developer_Meeting)&diff=1911KDE Project History/KDE Three (Developer Meeting)2010-02-07T14:09:10Z<p>Dario: /* Meeting Report */</p>
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<div>= KDE Three in Nürnberg, Germany =<br />
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== Meeting Report ==<br />
<br />
KDE 3.0 will be released just over 18 months after the first release in the KDE 2 series, and shortly after the last release of the KDE 2 series. The central goal of this new version is the migration of the KDE 2 code base to the new [http://qt.nokia.com/ Qt-3 library]. Under these circumstances, the core development activity in the KDE community in the past few months has concentrated on fixing known problems, testing, polishing existing features and completing translation and documentation.<br />
<br />
As the KDE-3.0 scheduled release date drew near, it became obvious that a concentrated effort focused on solving problems with the current code base was urgently needed. To solve these problems, and with the generous support of our sponsors, a group of KDE developers met in Nürnberg (Germany) from February 25th to March 4th. These developers were invited to provide the time and energy necessary for the meeting to be successful. This event is now known as the the KDE-Three meeting (see the [[KDE_Project_History|history of KDE]] for details about KDE-One, KDE-Two and KDE-Three-Beta).<br />
<br />
Among [http://devel-home.kde.org/~danimo/kdemeeting/group/group.jpg the developers present at the meeting], some journeyed long distances to join the meeting, some neglected exams, jobs or family, and all spent long nights burning the midnight oil. But the opportunity to work solely on KDE for a full week, as well as to place faces and voices on friends never seen or heard before, largely paid off.<br />
<br />
Those present needed to exercise significant restraint to abstain from being distracted by new developments or the adoption of new technologies. This focus on problem-solving essentially defined the difference between the KDE-Three meeting and its predecessors, which were instead used as a conference for developing new desktop-wide technologies such as DCOP and KParts.<br />
<br />
As already noted, the reunion afforded the unique opportunity to speed up considerably the cyclic process of bug finding, bug fixing, and testing. The developers addressed a wide palette of issues, some of which are listed here, in no particular order:<br />
<br />
* an important number of fixes in [http://konqueror.kde.org/ Konqueror] and the related bodies of code (bookmarks, iconview, performance);<br />
* fixing, polishing and refinement of KHTML;<br />
* many fixes to KJavaScript and cleanup;<br />
* corrections to KIO's functionality, as well as a memory management audit for the components of the KIO technology (library and clients);<br />
* an exhaustive examination of kdesktop and a large number of fixes;<br />
* many kicker problems fixed; a code refactoring was made necessary by the process;<br />
* large scale debugging of the localization support;<br />
* an important amount of time and attention was paid to plugging memory leaks (the new memory management inspection tool, [http://valgrind.org/ valgrind] was put to extensive use);<br />
* improving the behavior of memory allocations, together with optimizations in this area;<br />
* heavy work on polishing styles, improving their appearance and optimizations;<br />
* an audit of interface and ergonomic issues, with an accent on keyboard and mouse interaction;<br />
* many SSL, https and proxy fixes;<br />
* thorough testing of Xinerama, with many of the past issues being solved (a few others issues, which are either non-obtrusive or which are rather features than bugs remain to be looked for in the near future);<br />
* fixes in KWin related to ergonomy and functionality;<br />
* debugging of the localization support; and<br />
* mime-type handling cleanup.<br />
<br />
The life of the worldwide KDE community has continued at its normal high speed during the week of KDE Three. The combined efforts of all the active contributors amounted to roughly 3,350 CVS commits between February 25 and March 3.<br />
<br />
KDE is first and foremost the result of the selfless contributions of many hundreds of participants. Our deepest appreciation goes to the bug reporters, which help us identify the problems effectively. We also recognize that the results of the work of the KDE community would loose great value without the hard work and dedication of the translation and documentation teams. We express our hope that all of the combined efforts which have materialized since the commencement of [http://techbase.kde.org/Schedules/KDE_3.0_Release_Schedule preparations for the KDE 3 release] will yield a high-quality and stable desktop to the large and growing community of KDE users.<br />
<br />
== Sponsors == <br />
<br />
Without the generous support of the following sponsors, the meeting would not have been possible:<br />
<br />
* [http://www.novell.com/linux/ SuSE] provided the space (a very well suited [http://devel-home.kde.org/~danimo/kdemeeting/ location] was put entirely at the group's disposal), part of the computing hardware and the funding.<br />
* [http://qt.nokia.com/ Trolltech] covered half of the traveling, accommodation and catering expenses, and provided software tools for work optimization.<br />
* [http://www.intel.com Intel] provided computers.<br />
* [http://www.iiyama.com/ Iiyama] made available a number of 18" flat panel displays.<br />
<br />
Many thanks to them all for making the meeting possible and for providing excellent logistics and support.<br />
<br />
A special thanks to the local KDE developers who cared for hardware configuration and software installation before and during the meeting.<br />
<br />
And last, but also the most, many, many thanks to our gracious hosts, Sabina and Lenz, who made the stay in Nürnberg absolutely marvelous.<br />
<br />
==Sights==<br />
<br />
For the visually inclined, here are a few photos from the gathering:<br />
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* [http://devel-home.kde.org/~danimo/kdemeeting The meeting]<br />
* [http://devel-home.kde.org/~danimo/kdemeeting/group/ The group]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting)&diff=1910KDE Project History/KDE One (Developer Meeting)2010-02-07T14:07:30Z<p>Dario: Created page with '=KDE One in Arnsberg, Germany= From August, 28th to September, 1st, 1997, some KDE developers met in [http://www.arnsberg.de/ Arnsberg, Germany], to discuss design issues, the f...'</p>
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<div>=KDE One in Arnsberg, Germany=<br />
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From August, 28th to September, 1st, 1997, some KDE developers met in [http://www.arnsberg.de/ Arnsberg, Germany], to discuss design issues, the future of the project, and - of course - to code a lot. Some areas in which a lot of progress has been made are KFM stability, internationalization and mime-type detection. In addition, work in progress has been presented and discussed.<br />
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==Sponsors==<br />
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KDE One has only been made possible by the generous donations of our sponsors who paid for flight tickets, accomodation, Internet access and Coke. I think it's only fair to mention them here:<br />
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===Sponsors that helped with money donations===<br />
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* [http://www.suse.de/ S.u.S.E. GmbH]<br />
* [http://www.caldera.com/ Caldera Inc.]<br />
* [http://www.lst.de/ LST Software GmbH]<br />
* [http://www.oreilly.de/ O'Reilly Verlag]<br />
* [http://www.lob.de/ JF Lehmanns Buchhandlung]<br />
* [http://www.delix.de/ Delix Computer GmbH]<br />
* [http://www.dorint.de/hotels/2.htm Dorint Hotel Arnsberg-Neheim]<br />
* [http://www.wfa.arnsberg.de/wfa.html Wirtschaftsförderung Arnsberg GmbH]<br />
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===Sponsors that helped with Internet access, machines and logistic and organizational support===<br />
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* [http://www.dinet.de/ Delta Internet GmbH]<br />
* [http://www.linux-verband.de/ LiVe Linux-Verband]<br />
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==Discussion results==<br />
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Here are some results from our discussions. I will add more later as more documents become available. If you think I have forgotten something (I most surely have), please mail me.<br />
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* We are not sure if we want or need distributed objects, but if we do, Corba (in its incarnation Korba) is the way to go.<br />
* We already have a great mechanism for embedding applications into each other: KParts. (More on this later).<br />
* We need a list of keybindings that are obligatory for all KDE-applications. Such a list has been proposed and will be published later on this web site.<br />
* The old filesystem structure has proven to be unsatisfactory. A new one has been proposed and will be published later on this web site.<br />
* All KDE applications should be internationalized. In order to internationalize your application, you only have to include klocale.h and kapp.h in every source file that needs strings and replace all occurrences of fixed strings with klocale->translate( "string" ). Stephan Kulow, Kalle Dalheimer and our translators will then do the rest. If you want to help with the translations, please contact Stephan Kulow.<br />
* We need more and better documentation. A user's and a programmer's guide are already on the way. As soon as Taj has finished kdoc, the HTML documentation of the library will be included in every KDE distribution.<br />
* In order to make the applications not in the base distributions better known, we will include the components page in the help tree of every KDE distribution<br />
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==Thanks==<br />
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Kudos go to our sponsors, to the town of Arnsberg who has made things easy for us, and especially to Achim Cloer and his crew from Delta Internet who have done an amazing job in creating a productive work atmosphere for us (they went so far as to set up new X terminals at 2 am when we needed more of them!), to Arnt and Eirik from Troll Tech for participating and inviting us for dinner and of course to all KDE developers who have made this meeting a success.</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History&diff=1909KDE Project History2010-02-07T14:04:10Z<p>Dario: /* Developer Meetings */</p>
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<div>The KDE project started on October 14th 1996 (and the project has thus celebrated its tenth birthday already) with a call for programmers in comp.os.linux.misc: the [[#|original announcement of the KDE Project in 1996]] (use Google™ Groups to find the [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/tree/browse_frm/thread/4836e257721ab7fb/cb4b2d67ffc3ffce?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.os.linux.misc%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F4836e257721ab7fb%2F10e10a7a9e08943b%3Flnk%3Dgst%26#doc_cb4b2d67ffc3ffce original posting]).<br />
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At the 2003 Kastle conference ''Matthias Kalle Dalheimer'' gave a [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle/presentations/kastle-history/index.html presentation] about the history of the KDE project.<br />
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==Developer Meetings==<br />
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There have been roughly yearly large-scale developer meetings for the KDE community since very early in the project. Since the [http://ev.kde.org/ KDE e.V.] was created the yearly meeting is a requirement of its bylaws, so we can count on it now.<br />
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* [http://akademy2009.kde.org/ Akademy 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain] <br />
* [http://akademy2008.kde.org/ Akademy 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium]<br />
* [http://akademy2007.kde.org/ aKademy 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland]<br />
* [http://conference2006.kde.org/ aKademy 2006 - Dublin, Ireland]<br />
* [http://conference2005.kde.org/ aKademy 2005 - Málaga, Spain]<br />
* [http://conference2004.kde.org/ aKademy 2004 - Ludwigsburg, Germany]<br />
* [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle Kastle - Nové Hrady, Czech Republic 2003]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three - Nürnberg, Germany, 2002]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_Beta_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three Beta - Trysil, Norway 2000]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Two_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Two - Erlangen, Germany 1999]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_One_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE One - Arnsberg, Germany 1997]]<br />
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==Developer Awards==<br />
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KDE Developers have been awarding the so called 'aKademy awards' to fellow KDE Developers since aKademy 2005.<br />
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* [# aKademy 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain]<br />
* [# aKademy 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium]<br />
* [# aKademy 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland]<br />
* [# aKademy 2006 - Dublin, Ireland]<br />
* [# aKademy 2005 - Málaga, Spain]<br />
* [# Full list]<br />
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==KDE in the Press==<br />
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Articles about KDE have been collected in this archive of KDE in the press through the year 2000. For more current mentions see the [http://dot.kde.org KDE News site]<br />
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* [# 2000]<br />
* [# 1999]<br />
* [# 1998]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/KDE_Two_(Developer_Meeting)&diff=1908KDE Project History/KDE Two (Developer Meeting)2010-02-07T14:02:30Z<p>Dario: /* Kalle Dalheimer's Report */</p>
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<div>=KDE Two in Erlangen, Germany=<br />
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==Meeting Reports==<br />
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===Report===<br />
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The KDE Two developers conference help in Erlangen Germany this Oct 7 - 10 was a resounding success! This page will try to organize some of the results as they get written up.<br />
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The report below is a summary of the major topics addressed at the conference.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
Major Topics Covered at KDE Two<br />
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===="Kanossa"====<br />
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Torben Weis, the chief architect for the KDE Object Model (KOM) and OpenParts, announced the "new and improved" next generation OpenParts. The new approach to application or component embedding, code named "Kanossa", uses shared libraries rather than CORBA. The framework is only a few days old but has already shown itself to be quite fast, very memory efficient, and more stable than the previous version.<br />
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The distributed nature of CORBA presented a few problems related to [http://www.sun.com/tech/techrep/1994/smli_tr-94-29.pdf concurrency], reliability, and performance. It was decided that for application/GUI embedding, it made much more sense to use local components. This embedding approach is similar to how ActiveX and COM components are implemented in the Windows world and is likewise as seamless to the user.<br />
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This approach will make embedding components in KDE much easier to do. It should be possible, for instance, to embed an entire Konqueror browser into an application with only a few lines of code. The resulting embedded component will also be quite fast -- the user will not be able to tell the difference between it and a "native" widget. In addition, its efficient use of memory should prove popular to developer and user alike. Developers will appreciate the fact that Kanossa uses much less resources while compiling and users will love the fact that Kanossa based applications are comparable in size to non-component apps.<br />
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The main consumer of OpenParts is the KDE office suite, KOffice. Torben, Reginald Stadblauer, Matthias Elter, and others worked to convert the entire suite to the new framework. KPresenter, KSpread, KImageShop, and KChart are already ported with impressive gains in speed and stability.<br />
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====DCOP====<br />
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Matthias Ettrich and Preston Brown also worked feverishly through the weekend to develop a lightweight message based IPC/RPC mechanism for KDE -- one that can be used in addition to the powerful KOM. The result was the Desktop Communication Protocol (DCOP), based on the X11R6 standard library LibICE. It's goals were:<br />
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1. Very small memory footprint, enabling it to be linked to all KDE applications with no performance hit<br />
2. Fast, simple communication between distributed objects<br />
3. Easy implementation<br />
4. Authentication<br />
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but most of all<br />
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5. Unify existing KDE 1.x IPC protocols like kwmcom and hacks using Xatoms and pid files in a consistent and intuitive manner<br />
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Initial benchmarks seem to indicate that DCOP will be a hit. Comparisons between DCOP and MICO show an improvement of 40 - 100% for speed and over 50% for memory. One test of 10,000 synchronous RPC calls between distributed objects took 4.5 seconds in DCOP and over 8 seconds using MICO. The DCOP result shows how efficient it is: the practical limit for IPC/RPC calls between objects is often shown to be about 3000 discrete calls per second. This performance means that there should be no noticeable speed difference between this protocol and the previous IPC hacks.<br />
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====Java====<br />
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Rich Moore introduced the very impressive work he has done with Java. He and Lars Knoll worked through the weekend to extend his work. The result was two-fold:<br />
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1. Lars' new DOM-based HTML library (khtml-dom) now has support for Java applets!<br />
2. Any KDE application may now embed a Java applet with only a few lines of code.<br />
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Rich's work is absolutely phenomenal! This means that KDE 2.0 will have a web browser with full Java capabilities. As a side note, Rich also started a Java implementation of DCOP.<br />
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====aRts====<br />
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Stefan Westerfeld demonstrated [http://www.arts-project.org/ aRts] -- his next generation network multimedia framework. aRts uses a very modular system of CORBA components to achieve nearly limitless potential for multimedia playing and manipulation. KDE 2.0 will use an optimized subset of aRts to handle all audio playing. Future releases of KDE will then use the more advanced video and audio/video manipulation abilities available in aRts.<br />
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The aRts server is incredible. It's synthesis and filtering abilities are leagues ahead of anything yet found on Unix. It will offer capabilities to KDE that have so far been found only on OSes like Windows, BeOS, etc.<br />
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====Sycoca====<br />
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Waldo Bastian and David Faure headed up a design study on a new system configuration storage mechanism called the System Configuration Cache (Sycoca). It is a lightweight database optimized for looking up static system information. It permits concurrent read-only access to multiple clients at once. This means that the lookup can be very fast (in linear time) since no locking or transaction operations are needed. The database will be created and updated from human readable configuration files.<br />
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Sycoca will be used for "static" system information only. Examples include the mimetype bindings and the .desktop/servicetypes. Application specific data will not be stored here as that data is subject to regular change.<br />
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====Documentation====<br />
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Eric Bischoff, the KDE documentation project leader, detailed some of the changes taking place with the documentation group. One of the biggest changes is the move of all docs from the old LinuxDoc format to the industry standard DocBook format. This should allow for much greater control over the presentation of the information. He also mentioned how there will soon be automatically generated printable versions of KDE documents in postscript and/or PDF. Finally, there is work between the documentation project and many Linux distributions to ensure that all of the copious results of their efforts be properly included in the distributions.<br />
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====KDE e.V.====<br />
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The meeting also made possible a change in the board for KDE e.V. KDE e.V. is a non-profit legal entity (a "corporation") that can act in the interests of KDE as well as maintain a bank account. It was originally founded as a means for KDE to enter into a legal agreement with Troll Tech with the FreeQt Foundation. It has since taken on a further role as a place were donated monies could be accepted and distributed.<br />
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Members of KDE e.V. met for a few hours for an annual meeting to provide some direction to the board as well as elect a new board. The new board is:<br />
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President: Kurt Granroth<br />
Vice President: Chris Schl�ger<br />
Treasurer: Mirko Sucker<br />
Board Member: Preston Brown<br />
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Expect to see quite a bit from KDE e.V. in the coming months.<br />
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====Other====<br />
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There were a number of other sessions that were of great interest to KDE developers if not to general users. They included such topics as user interface design, applications scripting, session management, packaging, relations with Corel, and effects of a KDE library cleanup. Information concerning these topics will doubtlessly be filtering out as time goes by. <br />
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===Kalle Dalheimer's Report===<br />
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Kalle Dalheimer wrote this report on the KDE Two conference. It is quite a bit more personal then the summary report and covers different areas.<br />
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Enjoy!<br />
One Developer's Journal<br />
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====Thursday, October 7====<br />
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My Erlangen trip started at 5.45am on October 7 when I tried to checkout the canossa module in order to look at it on the plane. However, checking out took so long that I could not complete that. It was surprisingly the first freezing night, and I had to deice my car, too - those two things made me almost miss my plane. I arrived at our local airport (which is about 12 kilometers away) 10 minutes before departure time. That was just about right, because they expect you to be there only 10 minutes before :-) (Actually, they only open the "airport" which is just one wooden house only 20 minutes before the planes (two a day...) leave.<br />
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So, I got to Stockholm-Arlanda (the international airport of Sweden's capital Stockholm), and since I had three and a half hours until my connecting flight, I tried to get into the SAS lounge. I have a Frequent-Flyer-Look-How-Important-I-Am card from Lufthansa (the German airline) which is allied with SAS, but it is only the "silver" card. It grants you access to the lounge even when you have an economy class ticket (normally, you need a business class ticket in order to get in), but only if you have a Lufthansa or SAS ticket for the same day (unlike the "gold" card which grants you access whenever you want). Well, mine was Sabena, but with an arrogant face and a nonchalant waving of the Frequent Flyer Card, I walked right in and nobody stopped me.<br />
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This got me a seat with a power socket, so I could work for some hours on the new charting engine.<br />
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Finally, I boarded the plane for Brussels, did more work on the charting engine on the plane and changed planes in Brussels (yes, it is not the direct way to go from Stockholm to N�rnberg via Brussels :-)). At the gate in Brussels, I was looking whether there would be anybody else from the KDE team, but there was only one guy who looked like he *could* be a KDE developer. I suspected he might be David Faure, but I was too shy to ask, but when entering the airfield bus, I could glimpse at his ID card and saw his name, so I addressed him, and we were chatting KDE for the flight to N�rnberg.<br />
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In N�rnberg, I unpacked my penguin from my suitcase and waved it around, but nobody came up to collect us, so I finally called Matthias who told me that somebody from SuSE was on his way. A few minutes later, he in fact arrived and drove us to the hotel in Erlangen.<br />
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Only minutes after I had arrived, my room mate, Christian Esken, arrived, too, and together with him and David Faure, we marvelled at some of the color allocation macros in the old charting engine :-) Then we went downstairs, met Eric Bischoff and drank tea together. More KDE developers came, but at 6pm, I decided to run into town to the local Lehmanns book store where a parcel with a Konqi would be waiting for me.<br />
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I managed to find the book store, and the parcel was really there. The woman was very interested and asked about the KDE conference. Because I was already late, I got a taxi back to the hotel, where almost everybody was waiting. A few minutes later, we headed off for the pub "Zum Pleitegeier" (somebody please translate that) where a room was reserved for us.<br />
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The social event was well prepared. Everybody got a small note with available dishes on it where he could mark a main course and a dessert. We had lots of beer, were given the key cards which grant access to the computer rooms at the university, and name tags. I met many of the fine KDE developers there for the first time, and many others for the first time since KDE One. The first photos from my page are all from this evening.<br />
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At about 11pm, a few of us marched back to the hotel and had a drink or two at the hotel bar before going to sleep.<br />
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====Friday, October 8====<br />
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Since the conference schedule was about to start at 9am and we wanted to prepare some things, Matthias E., Preston and I got up at 6.30am and had an early breakfast together. We were then driven to the university by Ralf Flaxa (one of the two Caldera Germany bosses), checked the rooms and wrote the schedule on the board in the meeting room. Together with Matthias H-K, we picked up softdrinks from a small shop on the campus, and slowly, eager developers started to come in...<br />
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The conference was started (I might get the order wrong here) by an introductory talk by Matthias H-K, followed by an explanation of a staff member of the university about what was allowed in the computer room and what was not (basically it was: do not do anything illegal). Then Matthias E. explained the schedule and Preston did a quick pep-talk thing.<br />
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We then split up into special interest groups (SIGs), and this is where other people have to step in, because I can only report about what happened in my group. Together with Mirko Sucker and Bernhard Rosenkr�nzer, I was in the "library cleanup" group in which we tried to identify old, unused, undocumented, inconsistent or otherwise non-desirable code in the libraries. We have summed up our works in several postings to kde-devel and kde-code-devel during the conference, and you can also find information in KDE2PORTING, so it's probably not worth repeating it here now.<br />
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At noon, plates with sm�rg�sar (rolls with various toppings) were brought, and we ate in the meeting room together.<br />
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At 2pm, the press conference started with 40 KDE developers and 3 journalists (Bernhard Kuhn from Linux-Magazin, one from PC-Magazin and a woman who was there all the time and asked us questions during the whole weekend - she was a freelancer preparing something for a pointy-haired publication). We answered the usual questions, talked about future plans and so on. Nothing exciting here.<br />
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After the press conference, the presentations started. A number of people were asked to give a presentation beforehand, and I would ask all of you to sum them up here. Anyway, here are the presentations I can remember:<br />
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- Matthias E. presented kicker and kwin<br />
- the Corel people (Ming and Oleg) presented Corel Linux<br />
- David Faure presented kded<br />
- Torben presented Canossa<br />
- Stefan Westerfeld presented aRts and the new multimedia architecture (and got much criticism when he asked every one to link to mico just to have the application beep - he got the message and wrote a TCP/IP-based server in just two hours :-))<br />
- Eric Bischoff presented the change of the documentation team from LinuxDoc to DocBook. (A personal comment: Excellent decision! DocBook is what all professional publishers use. Even the LDP is switching.)<br />
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I am sure there were at least eight presentations, but I cannot remember the other ones.<br />
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After the presentations, we were finally free for hacking. And here is something I would love everybody to fill me (and others) in: What exactly have you been hacking on all the time? I know that Matthias and Preston were hacking on DCOP and Reggie on KPresenter, but I don't know about many other people. As for me, I spent the first half of the conference with the library cleanup and then worked on the charting engine and the port of KChart to Canossa.<br />
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Some of us went into the town in order to get food, but most followed my initiative and ordered pizza so that we wouldn't be stopped for too long from hacking. At about 9pm, Matthias and Preston came back from the pub they had been to, were pretty drunk and said that they would now write an ORB. (Matthias always rejects my version of the story, but I am sure that others will back me up :-)) So, having boasted this much, they couldn't go back and set off to really doing it, which is how DCOP came to being.<br />
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The last bus from the university to the hotel went at one minute before midnight, but I never managed to get that. On Friday night, I went back with a few others at around 3am and have been told that the last ones left at 4am. The hotel bar was closed, so all we could do was go to bed :-)<br />
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====Saturday, October 9====<br />
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On Saturday morning, the General Assembly of KDE e.V. was scheduled for 9am, but when Matthias and I arrived there, nobody was there, we rescheduled it to 1.30pm and went hacking instead :-) At noon, we again had lunch (Franconian specialties), and at 2pm, the General Assembly finally started. Mirko was appointed minutes writer (what is correct term for that in English?) and Matthias reported about what KDE e.V. was for and how the procedures are. German law requires a number of formalities for such a General Assembly, but it really went pretty smooth - I have seen much, much worse. One of the most important points was electing a new board. Matthias and Martin suggested six candidates: Harri Porten, Eric Bischoff, Preston Brown, Kurt Granroth, Chris Schlaeger and Mirko Sucker (who does care about his name being pronounced correctly :-) (the first vowel is like in English look)). All were asked whether they would accept being candidate, and all accepted, with Harri and Eric stating that there were accepting, but preferred somebody else to be elected.<br />
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The actual election was held by Coolo (because he was neither a candidate nor a member of the old board and - as Matthias E put it - as a former east German, he has experiences with forged elections (this comment got my laughing and not getting breath for some five minutes...)). We had some problems dealing out the exact number of ballots, so that finally everybody had to come up to Coolo and put in his vote one by one.<br />
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Preston, Kurt, Chris and Mirko were elected (you can see the exact figures in one of my photos, and also in the minutes that will be translated to English and posted here RSN) and accepted their election.<br />
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We then had a number of propositions, all of which were accepted by the assembly (most of them unanimously, for exact figures see the minutes):<br />
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1. Martin K. proposed that the board should explore the possibilites of having not only developer members, but also sponsoring corporate members (without right to vote).<br />
2. I proposed that the board should explore the possibility of getting us business cards with consistent design and at the expense of KDE.<br />
3. Someone (Matthias?) proposed that the board should set up an account in the U.S., too, in order to facilitate donations from there.<br />
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(I think that there were four propositions, but I cannot remember the fourth.)<br />
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Finally, the meeting was over, and we could go back to hacking. I hacked until 3.30am and then took a taxi back to the hotel together with some others.<br />
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====Sunday, October 10====<br />
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On Sunday morning, even less people were at the breakfast table :-) (less developers, that is, the room was filled with an elderly bus group). Finally, most had arrived at the university, at the presentations of the SIGs started. Again, I would like all the SIGs to fill in their results here. The results of the UI guidelines SIG should already be on developer.kde.org, and as I wrote above, the results of the library cleanup SIG have been posted to kde-devel and kde-core-devel.<br />
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So slowly, most left for their trains and planes, and in the evening, only Antonio, Preston, Kurt, Matthias E., Waldo, Reggie and me were left. We went by taxi and Waldo's car to the Pleitegeier again and had dinner. Then we went back to the university, Waldo left for his (now near-by) "home", and Antonio for the hotel in order to check out.<br />
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The remaining four of us continued hacking, and Antonio joined us with his luggage. Ralf Flaxa was there and reinstalled the machines that were not needed any longer with their usual setup because the computer room was needed the next morning. (A huge thank you to Ralf!) At 2am, Matthias and Preston wanted to leave, so we got a taxi together, except for Antonio who decided to work through the night and go directly to the airport from the university (now, there's a tough guy :-)).<br />
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====Monday, October 11====<br />
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The next morning, Matthias, Kurt and I went to the attorney were we had booked an appointment and had Kurt's signature as the new president testified. We then went back to the hotel, picked up our things, and Kurt and I took a taxi to N�rnberg airport.<br />
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At the counter where I had to check in just had a network failure, so they couldn't process anybody for some time. When I asked whether they were using Windows, they just stared at me, and one guy (obviously their "network technician") said, "Yes, how do you know?" :-) But both Kurt and I managed to get our planes in time. Kurt was off to Amsterdam (and further to Detroit and Phoenix), while I went to Brussels again, bought some of the famous Belgian chocolates for my wife and tried to find my way through this least organized, most chaotic airport I have ever, ever seen. I have been told (though never been there myself) that Chicago O'Hare is bad, too, but it can hardly be as bad as Brussels International Airport.<br />
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Anyway, I got my plane to Stockholm, and when I went to check in for my commuter plane to Hagfors (you have to pick up your luggage and go through customs first before you can go to the domestic flights), I was told that they had "technical problems" and that the flight was delayed for at least 90 minutes. But they were kind of enough to stow away my heavy suitcase and gave me a voucher for food for 50 crowns (which is approx. 7 US dollars, you can imagine how much that gets you in an airport :-)) I seized the opportunity and went to the barber's. (This must have been the most expensive hair cut I ever got.) Then I went to a Cajun restaurant, had some chili and watched the monitors how all the planes were called, boarded and lift off except mine. When it finally disappeared from the monitor, I went back to the gate where they told me it was cancelled but that I was booked on a flight to �rebro and would be driven by taxi home from them. I asked them whether they knew what they were doing (it is approx. 150 kilometers from �rebro to Hagfors, and taxis are very expensive here), but they told me not worry, everything would be covered by them. So, I waited another hour for this plane for �rebro (which is approx. halfway between Stockholm and Hagfors), got there, was put into a taxi together with 6 others (it was a _large_ taxi :-) and driven to Hagfors (all in all, there were three taxis going, this must have cost the airline lots of money). The taxi driver was kind enough to drive all of us to our places instead of only going to the airport, so I was home at about midnight.<br />
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So, after I few days of recovering, here I sit, ramble and take your time :-) Time to stop!<br />
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==Sponsors==<br />
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6-10-1999 The KDE Team is happy to welcome IBM as sponsor of KDE-Two: "IBM and its ViaVoice team thanks the KDE team for the opportunity to help sponsor its second developers conference and congratulates KDE's efforts to produce a great leading GUI for Linux."<br />
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4-10-1999 The KDE Team thanks Corel and Red Hat for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
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29-9-1999 The KDE Team thanks Markt & Technik and Addison - Wesley for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
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24-9-1999 The KDE Team wishes to thank Fujitsu Siemens Computers, for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
<br />
According to Fujitsu Siemens Computers:<br />
<br />
"Fujitsu Siemens Computers, one of the main Linux supporters worldwide, is proud to sponsor the KDE-Two developer meeting. Fujitsu Siemens Computers strongly supports open source projects like KDE as one of the leading GUIs for Linux. The GUI is of particular importance with regard to further enhancing the acceptance of Linux in different environments from Desktop to Server."<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
15-9-1999 It took somewhat longer than expected but finally KDE-Two, the second KDE developer meeting, has become reality! Here is our press release:<br />
<br />
<br />
==KDE Developer Meeting supported by SuSE and Caldera==<br />
<br />
The KDE Team is happy to announce that the second KDE developer meeting will take place from 7th to 10th of October 1999 at the University of Erlangen, Germany. Thanks to the main sponsors, Caldera Systems Inc. and SuSE GmbH, about 50 KDE core developers from all over the world will be able to come together and work on the future development of KDE.<br />
<br />
According to Waldo Bastian, KDE core developer, "KDE is being developed by a large group of volunteers from all over the world. This event is a unique opportunity to meet the other developers. Although we are in constant contact via Internet, most of us have never met each other in person. During the meeting we hope to define the roadmap for the next major release of KDE which is planned for the first half of the next year. Besides that, it will be great fun!"<br />
<br />
The event has been made possible with the financial help of Linux distributors SuSE and Caldera. SuSE Chairman Roland Dyroff about SuSE's involvement "SuSE is very commited to the development of KDE. Thanks to KDE, Linux is quickly becoming a viable alternative on the Desktop market. By supporting events like this we make sure that the KDE Team can continue its marvelous work in an even faster pace."<br />
<br />
"Caldera Systems is proud to have the opportunity to sponsor this event in order to show our appreciation to the KDE team for their effort. We are pleased with the progress the team has made in the latest releases and look forward to being able to provide KDE 2.0 to our customers in the future." says Drew Spencer, Vice President of Engineering at Caldera Systems Inc.<br />
<br />
===About KDE===<br />
<br />
KDE is a collaborative project by hundreds of developers worldwide to create a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop environment employing a network-transparent, intuitive user interface. In addition, many KDE users have assisted in the preparation of new releases by providing constructive feedback, suggestions and software patches. KDE is working proof of the power of the open source software development model. More information on KDE can be found at www.kde.org.<br />
<br />
===About Caldera===<br />
<br />
Caldera Systems, Inc. is the Linux for Business technology leader in designing, developing and marketing Linux-based business solutions including OpenLinux, NetWare for Linux, Linux technical training, certification and support. Caldera Systems can be reached at 888-GO-Linux (888-465-4689) or via E-mail at linux@calderasystems.com.<br />
<br />
===About SuSE===<br />
<br />
SuSE, with a workforce of over 160 people, is one of the leading Linux companies worldwide. The SuSE Linux distribution is used by more than 50,000 business customers worldwide due to its stability and high quality. For an efficient use of Linux in a business environment SuSE offers an extensive palette of qualified consulting and support services, as well as commercial Linux software and complete Linux systems. SuSE is contributing considerably to the development of Linux for projects such as the Linux kernel, glibc, XFree86[tm], KDE, ISDN4Linux, ALSA (AdvancedLinux Sound Architecture) and USB (Universal Serial Bus). Get further information at [www.suse.com www.suse.com] or reach SuSE via E-mail to suse@suse.de.<br />
<br />
==KDE-Two is sponsored by==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.suse.de/ SuSE GmbH]<br />
* [http://www.caldera.com/ Caldera Inc.]<br />
* [http://www.troll.no/ Troll Tech AS]<br />
* [http://www.siemens.de/ Fujitsu Siemens Computers]<br />
* [http://www.mut.de/ Markt & Technik]<br />
* [http://www.addison-wesley.de/ Addison - Wesley]<br />
* [http://www.corel.com/ Corel]<br />
* [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat]<br />
* [http://www.ibm.com/ IBM]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/KDE_Two_(Developer_Meeting)&diff=1907KDE Project History/KDE Two (Developer Meeting)2010-02-07T14:00:37Z<p>Dario: /* Java */</p>
<hr />
<div>=KDE Two in Erlangen, Germany=<br />
<br />
==Meeting Reports==<br />
<br />
===Report===<br />
<br />
The KDE Two developers conference help in Erlangen Germany this Oct 7 - 10 was a resounding success! This page will try to organize some of the results as they get written up.<br />
<br />
The report below is a summary of the major topics addressed at the conference.<br />
<br />
Enjoy!<br />
Major Topics Covered at KDE Two<br />
<br />
===="Kanossa"====<br />
<br />
Torben Weis, the chief architect for the KDE Object Model (KOM) and OpenParts, announced the "new and improved" next generation OpenParts. The new approach to application or component embedding, code named "Kanossa", uses shared libraries rather than CORBA. The framework is only a few days old but has already shown itself to be quite fast, very memory efficient, and more stable than the previous version.<br />
<br />
The distributed nature of CORBA presented a few problems related to [http://www.sun.com/tech/techrep/1994/smli_tr-94-29.pdf concurrency], reliability, and performance. It was decided that for application/GUI embedding, it made much more sense to use local components. This embedding approach is similar to how ActiveX and COM components are implemented in the Windows world and is likewise as seamless to the user.<br />
<br />
This approach will make embedding components in KDE much easier to do. It should be possible, for instance, to embed an entire Konqueror browser into an application with only a few lines of code. The resulting embedded component will also be quite fast -- the user will not be able to tell the difference between it and a "native" widget. In addition, its efficient use of memory should prove popular to developer and user alike. Developers will appreciate the fact that Kanossa uses much less resources while compiling and users will love the fact that Kanossa based applications are comparable in size to non-component apps.<br />
<br />
The main consumer of OpenParts is the KDE office suite, KOffice. Torben, Reginald Stadblauer, Matthias Elter, and others worked to convert the entire suite to the new framework. KPresenter, KSpread, KImageShop, and KChart are already ported with impressive gains in speed and stability.<br />
<br />
====DCOP====<br />
<br />
Matthias Ettrich and Preston Brown also worked feverishly through the weekend to develop a lightweight message based IPC/RPC mechanism for KDE -- one that can be used in addition to the powerful KOM. The result was the Desktop Communication Protocol (DCOP), based on the X11R6 standard library LibICE. It's goals were:<br />
<br />
1. Very small memory footprint, enabling it to be linked to all KDE applications with no performance hit<br />
2. Fast, simple communication between distributed objects<br />
3. Easy implementation<br />
4. Authentication<br />
<br />
but most of all<br />
<br />
5. Unify existing KDE 1.x IPC protocols like kwmcom and hacks using Xatoms and pid files in a consistent and intuitive manner<br />
<br />
Initial benchmarks seem to indicate that DCOP will be a hit. Comparisons between DCOP and MICO show an improvement of 40 - 100% for speed and over 50% for memory. One test of 10,000 synchronous RPC calls between distributed objects took 4.5 seconds in DCOP and over 8 seconds using MICO. The DCOP result shows how efficient it is: the practical limit for IPC/RPC calls between objects is often shown to be about 3000 discrete calls per second. This performance means that there should be no noticeable speed difference between this protocol and the previous IPC hacks.<br />
<br />
====Java====<br />
<br />
Rich Moore introduced the very impressive work he has done with Java. He and Lars Knoll worked through the weekend to extend his work. The result was two-fold:<br />
<br />
1. Lars' new DOM-based HTML library (khtml-dom) now has support for Java applets!<br />
2. Any KDE application may now embed a Java applet with only a few lines of code.<br />
<br />
Rich's work is absolutely phenomenal! This means that KDE 2.0 will have a web browser with full Java capabilities. As a side note, Rich also started a Java implementation of DCOP.<br />
<br />
====aRts====<br />
<br />
Stefan Westerfeld demonstrated [http://www.arts-project.org/ aRts] -- his next generation network multimedia framework. aRts uses a very modular system of CORBA components to achieve nearly limitless potential for multimedia playing and manipulation. KDE 2.0 will use an optimized subset of aRts to handle all audio playing. Future releases of KDE will then use the more advanced video and audio/video manipulation abilities available in aRts.<br />
<br />
The aRts server is incredible. It's synthesis and filtering abilities are leagues ahead of anything yet found on Unix. It will offer capabilities to KDE that have so far been found only on OSes like Windows, BeOS, etc.<br />
<br />
====Sycoca====<br />
<br />
Waldo Bastian and David Faure headed up a design study on a new system configuration storage mechanism called the System Configuration Cache (Sycoca). It is a lightweight database optimized for looking up static system information. It permits concurrent read-only access to multiple clients at once. This means that the lookup can be very fast (in linear time) since no locking or transaction operations are needed. The database will be created and updated from human readable configuration files.<br />
<br />
Sycoca will be used for "static" system information only. Examples include the mimetype bindings and the .desktop/servicetypes. Application specific data will not be stored here as that data is subject to regular change.<br />
<br />
====Documentation====<br />
<br />
Eric Bischoff, the KDE documentation project leader, detailed some of the changes taking place with the documentation group. One of the biggest changes is the move of all docs from the old LinuxDoc format to the industry standard DocBook format. This should allow for much greater control over the presentation of the information. He also mentioned how there will soon be automatically generated printable versions of KDE documents in postscript and/or PDF. Finally, there is work between the documentation project and many Linux distributions to ensure that all of the copious results of their efforts be properly included in the distributions.<br />
<br />
====KDE e.V.====<br />
<br />
The meeting also made possible a change in the board for KDE e.V. KDE e.V. is a non-profit legal entity (a "corporation") that can act in the interests of KDE as well as maintain a bank account. It was originally founded as a means for KDE to enter into a legal agreement with Troll Tech with the FreeQt Foundation. It has since taken on a further role as a place were donated monies could be accepted and distributed.<br />
<br />
Members of KDE e.V. met for a few hours for an annual meeting to provide some direction to the board as well as elect a new board. The new board is:<br />
<br />
President: Kurt Granroth<br />
Vice President: Chris Schl�ger<br />
Treasurer: Mirko Sucker<br />
Board Member: Preston Brown<br />
<br />
Expect to see quite a bit from KDE e.V. in the coming months.<br />
<br />
====Other====<br />
<br />
There were a number of other sessions that were of great interest to KDE developers if not to general users. They included such topics as user interface design, applications scripting, session management, packaging, relations with Corel, and effects of a KDE library cleanup. Information concerning these topics will doubtlessly be filtering out as time goes by. <br />
<br />
===Kalle Dalheimer's Report===<br />
<br />
<br />
==Sponsors==<br />
<br />
6-10-1999 The KDE Team is happy to welcome IBM as sponsor of KDE-Two: "IBM and its ViaVoice team thanks the KDE team for the opportunity to help sponsor its second developers conference and congratulates KDE's efforts to produce a great leading GUI for Linux."<br />
<br />
<br />
4-10-1999 The KDE Team thanks Corel and Red Hat for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
<br />
<br />
29-9-1999 The KDE Team thanks Markt & Technik and Addison - Wesley for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
<br />
<br />
24-9-1999 The KDE Team wishes to thank Fujitsu Siemens Computers, for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
<br />
According to Fujitsu Siemens Computers:<br />
<br />
"Fujitsu Siemens Computers, one of the main Linux supporters worldwide, is proud to sponsor the KDE-Two developer meeting. Fujitsu Siemens Computers strongly supports open source projects like KDE as one of the leading GUIs for Linux. The GUI is of particular importance with regard to further enhancing the acceptance of Linux in different environments from Desktop to Server."<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
15-9-1999 It took somewhat longer than expected but finally KDE-Two, the second KDE developer meeting, has become reality! Here is our press release:<br />
<br />
<br />
==KDE Developer Meeting supported by SuSE and Caldera==<br />
<br />
The KDE Team is happy to announce that the second KDE developer meeting will take place from 7th to 10th of October 1999 at the University of Erlangen, Germany. Thanks to the main sponsors, Caldera Systems Inc. and SuSE GmbH, about 50 KDE core developers from all over the world will be able to come together and work on the future development of KDE.<br />
<br />
According to Waldo Bastian, KDE core developer, "KDE is being developed by a large group of volunteers from all over the world. This event is a unique opportunity to meet the other developers. Although we are in constant contact via Internet, most of us have never met each other in person. During the meeting we hope to define the roadmap for the next major release of KDE which is planned for the first half of the next year. Besides that, it will be great fun!"<br />
<br />
The event has been made possible with the financial help of Linux distributors SuSE and Caldera. SuSE Chairman Roland Dyroff about SuSE's involvement "SuSE is very commited to the development of KDE. Thanks to KDE, Linux is quickly becoming a viable alternative on the Desktop market. By supporting events like this we make sure that the KDE Team can continue its marvelous work in an even faster pace."<br />
<br />
"Caldera Systems is proud to have the opportunity to sponsor this event in order to show our appreciation to the KDE team for their effort. We are pleased with the progress the team has made in the latest releases and look forward to being able to provide KDE 2.0 to our customers in the future." says Drew Spencer, Vice President of Engineering at Caldera Systems Inc.<br />
<br />
===About KDE===<br />
<br />
KDE is a collaborative project by hundreds of developers worldwide to create a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop environment employing a network-transparent, intuitive user interface. In addition, many KDE users have assisted in the preparation of new releases by providing constructive feedback, suggestions and software patches. KDE is working proof of the power of the open source software development model. More information on KDE can be found at www.kde.org.<br />
<br />
===About Caldera===<br />
<br />
Caldera Systems, Inc. is the Linux for Business technology leader in designing, developing and marketing Linux-based business solutions including OpenLinux, NetWare for Linux, Linux technical training, certification and support. Caldera Systems can be reached at 888-GO-Linux (888-465-4689) or via E-mail at linux@calderasystems.com.<br />
<br />
===About SuSE===<br />
<br />
SuSE, with a workforce of over 160 people, is one of the leading Linux companies worldwide. The SuSE Linux distribution is used by more than 50,000 business customers worldwide due to its stability and high quality. For an efficient use of Linux in a business environment SuSE offers an extensive palette of qualified consulting and support services, as well as commercial Linux software and complete Linux systems. SuSE is contributing considerably to the development of Linux for projects such as the Linux kernel, glibc, XFree86[tm], KDE, ISDN4Linux, ALSA (AdvancedLinux Sound Architecture) and USB (Universal Serial Bus). Get further information at [www.suse.com www.suse.com] or reach SuSE via E-mail to suse@suse.de.<br />
<br />
==KDE-Two is sponsored by==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.suse.de/ SuSE GmbH]<br />
* [http://www.caldera.com/ Caldera Inc.]<br />
* [http://www.troll.no/ Troll Tech AS]<br />
* [http://www.siemens.de/ Fujitsu Siemens Computers]<br />
* [http://www.mut.de/ Markt & Technik]<br />
* [http://www.addison-wesley.de/ Addison - Wesley]<br />
* [http://www.corel.com/ Corel]<br />
* [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat]<br />
* [http://www.ibm.com/ IBM]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/KDE_Two_(Developer_Meeting)&diff=1906KDE Project History/KDE Two (Developer Meeting)2010-02-07T13:59:43Z<p>Dario: /* About SuSE */</p>
<hr />
<div>=KDE Two in Erlangen, Germany=<br />
<br />
==Meeting Reports==<br />
<br />
===Report===<br />
<br />
The KDE Two developers conference help in Erlangen Germany this Oct 7 - 10 was a resounding success! This page will try to organize some of the results as they get written up.<br />
<br />
The report below is a summary of the major topics addressed at the conference.<br />
<br />
Enjoy!<br />
Major Topics Covered at KDE Two<br />
<br />
===="Kanossa"====<br />
<br />
Torben Weis, the chief architect for the KDE Object Model (KOM) and OpenParts, announced the "new and improved" next generation OpenParts. The new approach to application or component embedding, code named "Kanossa", uses shared libraries rather than CORBA. The framework is only a few days old but has already shown itself to be quite fast, very memory efficient, and more stable than the previous version.<br />
<br />
The distributed nature of CORBA presented a few problems related to [http://www.sun.com/tech/techrep/1994/smli_tr-94-29.pdf concurrency], reliability, and performance. It was decided that for application/GUI embedding, it made much more sense to use local components. This embedding approach is similar to how ActiveX and COM components are implemented in the Windows world and is likewise as seamless to the user.<br />
<br />
This approach will make embedding components in KDE much easier to do. It should be possible, for instance, to embed an entire Konqueror browser into an application with only a few lines of code. The resulting embedded component will also be quite fast -- the user will not be able to tell the difference between it and a "native" widget. In addition, its efficient use of memory should prove popular to developer and user alike. Developers will appreciate the fact that Kanossa uses much less resources while compiling and users will love the fact that Kanossa based applications are comparable in size to non-component apps.<br />
<br />
The main consumer of OpenParts is the KDE office suite, KOffice. Torben, Reginald Stadblauer, Matthias Elter, and others worked to convert the entire suite to the new framework. KPresenter, KSpread, KImageShop, and KChart are already ported with impressive gains in speed and stability.<br />
<br />
====DCOP====<br />
<br />
Matthias Ettrich and Preston Brown also worked feverishly through the weekend to develop a lightweight message based IPC/RPC mechanism for KDE -- one that can be used in addition to the powerful KOM. The result was the Desktop Communication Protocol (DCOP), based on the X11R6 standard library LibICE. It's goals were:<br />
<br />
1. Very small memory footprint, enabling it to be linked to all KDE applications with no performance hit<br />
2. Fast, simple communication between distributed objects<br />
3. Easy implementation<br />
4. Authentication<br />
<br />
but most of all<br />
<br />
5. Unify existing KDE 1.x IPC protocols like kwmcom and hacks using Xatoms and pid files in a consistent and intuitive manner<br />
<br />
Initial benchmarks seem to indicate that DCOP will be a hit. Comparisons between DCOP and MICO show an improvement of 40 - 100% for speed and over 50% for memory. One test of 10,000 synchronous RPC calls between distributed objects took 4.5 seconds in DCOP and over 8 seconds using MICO. The DCOP result shows how efficient it is: the practical limit for IPC/RPC calls between objects is often shown to be about 3000 discrete calls per second. This performance means that there should be no noticeable speed difference between this protocol and the previous IPC hacks.<br />
<br />
====Java====<br />
<br />
Rich Moore introduced the very impressive work he has done with Java. He and Lars Knoll worked through the weekend to extend his work. The result was two-fold:<br />
<br />
1. Lars' new DOM-based HTML library (khtml-dom) now has support for Java applets!<br />
2. Any KDE application may now embed a Java applet with only a few lines of code.<br />
<br />
Rich's work is absolutely phenomenal! This means that KDE 2.0 will have a web browser with full Java capabilities. As a side note, Rich also started a Java implementation of DCOP.<br />
<br />
Check out this screenshot. It is the KDE home page with a java applet showing a animated reflected image.<br />
<br />
====aRts====<br />
<br />
Stefan Westerfeld demonstrated [http://www.arts-project.org/ aRts] -- his next generation network multimedia framework. aRts uses a very modular system of CORBA components to achieve nearly limitless potential for multimedia playing and manipulation. KDE 2.0 will use an optimized subset of aRts to handle all audio playing. Future releases of KDE will then use the more advanced video and audio/video manipulation abilities available in aRts.<br />
<br />
The aRts server is incredible. It's synthesis and filtering abilities are leagues ahead of anything yet found on Unix. It will offer capabilities to KDE that have so far been found only on OSes like Windows, BeOS, etc.<br />
<br />
====Sycoca====<br />
<br />
Waldo Bastian and David Faure headed up a design study on a new system configuration storage mechanism called the System Configuration Cache (Sycoca). It is a lightweight database optimized for looking up static system information. It permits concurrent read-only access to multiple clients at once. This means that the lookup can be very fast (in linear time) since no locking or transaction operations are needed. The database will be created and updated from human readable configuration files.<br />
<br />
Sycoca will be used for "static" system information only. Examples include the mimetype bindings and the .desktop/servicetypes. Application specific data will not be stored here as that data is subject to regular change.<br />
<br />
====Documentation====<br />
<br />
Eric Bischoff, the KDE documentation project leader, detailed some of the changes taking place with the documentation group. One of the biggest changes is the move of all docs from the old LinuxDoc format to the industry standard DocBook format. This should allow for much greater control over the presentation of the information. He also mentioned how there will soon be automatically generated printable versions of KDE documents in postscript and/or PDF. Finally, there is work between the documentation project and many Linux distributions to ensure that all of the copious results of their efforts be properly included in the distributions.<br />
<br />
====KDE e.V.====<br />
<br />
The meeting also made possible a change in the board for KDE e.V. KDE e.V. is a non-profit legal entity (a "corporation") that can act in the interests of KDE as well as maintain a bank account. It was originally founded as a means for KDE to enter into a legal agreement with Troll Tech with the FreeQt Foundation. It has since taken on a further role as a place were donated monies could be accepted and distributed.<br />
<br />
Members of KDE e.V. met for a few hours for an annual meeting to provide some direction to the board as well as elect a new board. The new board is:<br />
<br />
President: Kurt Granroth<br />
Vice President: Chris Schl�ger<br />
Treasurer: Mirko Sucker<br />
Board Member: Preston Brown<br />
<br />
Expect to see quite a bit from KDE e.V. in the coming months.<br />
<br />
====Other====<br />
<br />
There were a number of other sessions that were of great interest to KDE developers if not to general users. They included such topics as user interface design, applications scripting, session management, packaging, relations with Corel, and effects of a KDE library cleanup. Information concerning these topics will doubtlessly be filtering out as time goes by. <br />
<br />
===Kalle Dalheimer's Report===<br />
<br />
<br />
==Sponsors==<br />
<br />
6-10-1999 The KDE Team is happy to welcome IBM as sponsor of KDE-Two: "IBM and its ViaVoice team thanks the KDE team for the opportunity to help sponsor its second developers conference and congratulates KDE's efforts to produce a great leading GUI for Linux."<br />
<br />
<br />
4-10-1999 The KDE Team thanks Corel and Red Hat for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
<br />
<br />
29-9-1999 The KDE Team thanks Markt & Technik and Addison - Wesley for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
<br />
<br />
24-9-1999 The KDE Team wishes to thank Fujitsu Siemens Computers, for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
<br />
According to Fujitsu Siemens Computers:<br />
<br />
"Fujitsu Siemens Computers, one of the main Linux supporters worldwide, is proud to sponsor the KDE-Two developer meeting. Fujitsu Siemens Computers strongly supports open source projects like KDE as one of the leading GUIs for Linux. The GUI is of particular importance with regard to further enhancing the acceptance of Linux in different environments from Desktop to Server."<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
15-9-1999 It took somewhat longer than expected but finally KDE-Two, the second KDE developer meeting, has become reality! Here is our press release:<br />
<br />
<br />
==KDE Developer Meeting supported by SuSE and Caldera==<br />
<br />
The KDE Team is happy to announce that the second KDE developer meeting will take place from 7th to 10th of October 1999 at the University of Erlangen, Germany. Thanks to the main sponsors, Caldera Systems Inc. and SuSE GmbH, about 50 KDE core developers from all over the world will be able to come together and work on the future development of KDE.<br />
<br />
According to Waldo Bastian, KDE core developer, "KDE is being developed by a large group of volunteers from all over the world. This event is a unique opportunity to meet the other developers. Although we are in constant contact via Internet, most of us have never met each other in person. During the meeting we hope to define the roadmap for the next major release of KDE which is planned for the first half of the next year. Besides that, it will be great fun!"<br />
<br />
The event has been made possible with the financial help of Linux distributors SuSE and Caldera. SuSE Chairman Roland Dyroff about SuSE's involvement "SuSE is very commited to the development of KDE. Thanks to KDE, Linux is quickly becoming a viable alternative on the Desktop market. By supporting events like this we make sure that the KDE Team can continue its marvelous work in an even faster pace."<br />
<br />
"Caldera Systems is proud to have the opportunity to sponsor this event in order to show our appreciation to the KDE team for their effort. We are pleased with the progress the team has made in the latest releases and look forward to being able to provide KDE 2.0 to our customers in the future." says Drew Spencer, Vice President of Engineering at Caldera Systems Inc.<br />
<br />
===About KDE===<br />
<br />
KDE is a collaborative project by hundreds of developers worldwide to create a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop environment employing a network-transparent, intuitive user interface. In addition, many KDE users have assisted in the preparation of new releases by providing constructive feedback, suggestions and software patches. KDE is working proof of the power of the open source software development model. More information on KDE can be found at www.kde.org.<br />
<br />
===About Caldera===<br />
<br />
Caldera Systems, Inc. is the Linux for Business technology leader in designing, developing and marketing Linux-based business solutions including OpenLinux, NetWare for Linux, Linux technical training, certification and support. Caldera Systems can be reached at 888-GO-Linux (888-465-4689) or via E-mail at linux@calderasystems.com.<br />
<br />
===About SuSE===<br />
<br />
SuSE, with a workforce of over 160 people, is one of the leading Linux companies worldwide. The SuSE Linux distribution is used by more than 50,000 business customers worldwide due to its stability and high quality. For an efficient use of Linux in a business environment SuSE offers an extensive palette of qualified consulting and support services, as well as commercial Linux software and complete Linux systems. SuSE is contributing considerably to the development of Linux for projects such as the Linux kernel, glibc, XFree86[tm], KDE, ISDN4Linux, ALSA (AdvancedLinux Sound Architecture) and USB (Universal Serial Bus). Get further information at [www.suse.com www.suse.com] or reach SuSE via E-mail to suse@suse.de.<br />
<br />
==KDE-Two is sponsored by==<br />
<br />
* [http://www.suse.de/ SuSE GmbH]<br />
* [http://www.caldera.com/ Caldera Inc.]<br />
* [http://www.troll.no/ Troll Tech AS]<br />
* [http://www.siemens.de/ Fujitsu Siemens Computers]<br />
* [http://www.mut.de/ Markt & Technik]<br />
* [http://www.addison-wesley.de/ Addison - Wesley]<br />
* [http://www.corel.com/ Corel]<br />
* [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat]<br />
* [http://www.ibm.com/ IBM]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/KDE_Two_(Developer_Meeting)&diff=1905KDE Project History/KDE Two (Developer Meeting)2010-02-07T13:59:15Z<p>Dario: Created page with '=KDE Two in Erlangen, Germany= ==Meeting Reports== ===Report=== The KDE Two developers conference help in Erlangen Germany this Oct 7 - 10 was a resounding success! This page ...'</p>
<hr />
<div>=KDE Two in Erlangen, Germany=<br />
<br />
==Meeting Reports==<br />
<br />
===Report===<br />
<br />
The KDE Two developers conference help in Erlangen Germany this Oct 7 - 10 was a resounding success! This page will try to organize some of the results as they get written up.<br />
<br />
The report below is a summary of the major topics addressed at the conference.<br />
<br />
Enjoy!<br />
Major Topics Covered at KDE Two<br />
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===="Kanossa"====<br />
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Torben Weis, the chief architect for the KDE Object Model (KOM) and OpenParts, announced the "new and improved" next generation OpenParts. The new approach to application or component embedding, code named "Kanossa", uses shared libraries rather than CORBA. The framework is only a few days old but has already shown itself to be quite fast, very memory efficient, and more stable than the previous version.<br />
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The distributed nature of CORBA presented a few problems related to [http://www.sun.com/tech/techrep/1994/smli_tr-94-29.pdf concurrency], reliability, and performance. It was decided that for application/GUI embedding, it made much more sense to use local components. This embedding approach is similar to how ActiveX and COM components are implemented in the Windows world and is likewise as seamless to the user.<br />
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This approach will make embedding components in KDE much easier to do. It should be possible, for instance, to embed an entire Konqueror browser into an application with only a few lines of code. The resulting embedded component will also be quite fast -- the user will not be able to tell the difference between it and a "native" widget. In addition, its efficient use of memory should prove popular to developer and user alike. Developers will appreciate the fact that Kanossa uses much less resources while compiling and users will love the fact that Kanossa based applications are comparable in size to non-component apps.<br />
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The main consumer of OpenParts is the KDE office suite, KOffice. Torben, Reginald Stadblauer, Matthias Elter, and others worked to convert the entire suite to the new framework. KPresenter, KSpread, KImageShop, and KChart are already ported with impressive gains in speed and stability.<br />
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====DCOP====<br />
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Matthias Ettrich and Preston Brown also worked feverishly through the weekend to develop a lightweight message based IPC/RPC mechanism for KDE -- one that can be used in addition to the powerful KOM. The result was the Desktop Communication Protocol (DCOP), based on the X11R6 standard library LibICE. It's goals were:<br />
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1. Very small memory footprint, enabling it to be linked to all KDE applications with no performance hit<br />
2. Fast, simple communication between distributed objects<br />
3. Easy implementation<br />
4. Authentication<br />
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but most of all<br />
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5. Unify existing KDE 1.x IPC protocols like kwmcom and hacks using Xatoms and pid files in a consistent and intuitive manner<br />
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Initial benchmarks seem to indicate that DCOP will be a hit. Comparisons between DCOP and MICO show an improvement of 40 - 100% for speed and over 50% for memory. One test of 10,000 synchronous RPC calls between distributed objects took 4.5 seconds in DCOP and over 8 seconds using MICO. The DCOP result shows how efficient it is: the practical limit for IPC/RPC calls between objects is often shown to be about 3000 discrete calls per second. This performance means that there should be no noticeable speed difference between this protocol and the previous IPC hacks.<br />
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====Java====<br />
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Rich Moore introduced the very impressive work he has done with Java. He and Lars Knoll worked through the weekend to extend his work. The result was two-fold:<br />
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1. Lars' new DOM-based HTML library (khtml-dom) now has support for Java applets!<br />
2. Any KDE application may now embed a Java applet with only a few lines of code.<br />
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Rich's work is absolutely phenomenal! This means that KDE 2.0 will have a web browser with full Java capabilities. As a side note, Rich also started a Java implementation of DCOP.<br />
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Check out this screenshot. It is the KDE home page with a java applet showing a animated reflected image.<br />
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====aRts====<br />
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Stefan Westerfeld demonstrated [http://www.arts-project.org/ aRts] -- his next generation network multimedia framework. aRts uses a very modular system of CORBA components to achieve nearly limitless potential for multimedia playing and manipulation. KDE 2.0 will use an optimized subset of aRts to handle all audio playing. Future releases of KDE will then use the more advanced video and audio/video manipulation abilities available in aRts.<br />
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The aRts server is incredible. It's synthesis and filtering abilities are leagues ahead of anything yet found on Unix. It will offer capabilities to KDE that have so far been found only on OSes like Windows, BeOS, etc.<br />
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====Sycoca====<br />
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Waldo Bastian and David Faure headed up a design study on a new system configuration storage mechanism called the System Configuration Cache (Sycoca). It is a lightweight database optimized for looking up static system information. It permits concurrent read-only access to multiple clients at once. This means that the lookup can be very fast (in linear time) since no locking or transaction operations are needed. The database will be created and updated from human readable configuration files.<br />
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Sycoca will be used for "static" system information only. Examples include the mimetype bindings and the .desktop/servicetypes. Application specific data will not be stored here as that data is subject to regular change.<br />
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====Documentation====<br />
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Eric Bischoff, the KDE documentation project leader, detailed some of the changes taking place with the documentation group. One of the biggest changes is the move of all docs from the old LinuxDoc format to the industry standard DocBook format. This should allow for much greater control over the presentation of the information. He also mentioned how there will soon be automatically generated printable versions of KDE documents in postscript and/or PDF. Finally, there is work between the documentation project and many Linux distributions to ensure that all of the copious results of their efforts be properly included in the distributions.<br />
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====KDE e.V.====<br />
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The meeting also made possible a change in the board for KDE e.V. KDE e.V. is a non-profit legal entity (a "corporation") that can act in the interests of KDE as well as maintain a bank account. It was originally founded as a means for KDE to enter into a legal agreement with Troll Tech with the FreeQt Foundation. It has since taken on a further role as a place were donated monies could be accepted and distributed.<br />
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Members of KDE e.V. met for a few hours for an annual meeting to provide some direction to the board as well as elect a new board. The new board is:<br />
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President: Kurt Granroth<br />
Vice President: Chris Schl�ger<br />
Treasurer: Mirko Sucker<br />
Board Member: Preston Brown<br />
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Expect to see quite a bit from KDE e.V. in the coming months.<br />
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====Other====<br />
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There were a number of other sessions that were of great interest to KDE developers if not to general users. They included such topics as user interface design, applications scripting, session management, packaging, relations with Corel, and effects of a KDE library cleanup. Information concerning these topics will doubtlessly be filtering out as time goes by. <br />
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===Kalle Dalheimer's Report===<br />
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==Sponsors==<br />
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6-10-1999 The KDE Team is happy to welcome IBM as sponsor of KDE-Two: "IBM and its ViaVoice team thanks the KDE team for the opportunity to help sponsor its second developers conference and congratulates KDE's efforts to produce a great leading GUI for Linux."<br />
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4-10-1999 The KDE Team thanks Corel and Red Hat for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
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29-9-1999 The KDE Team thanks Markt & Technik and Addison - Wesley for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
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24-9-1999 The KDE Team wishes to thank Fujitsu Siemens Computers, for their sponsorship of KDE-Two.<br />
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According to Fujitsu Siemens Computers:<br />
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"Fujitsu Siemens Computers, one of the main Linux supporters worldwide, is proud to sponsor the KDE-Two developer meeting. Fujitsu Siemens Computers strongly supports open source projects like KDE as one of the leading GUIs for Linux. The GUI is of particular importance with regard to further enhancing the acceptance of Linux in different environments from Desktop to Server."<br />
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15-9-1999 It took somewhat longer than expected but finally KDE-Two, the second KDE developer meeting, has become reality! Here is our press release:<br />
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==KDE Developer Meeting supported by SuSE and Caldera==<br />
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The KDE Team is happy to announce that the second KDE developer meeting will take place from 7th to 10th of October 1999 at the University of Erlangen, Germany. Thanks to the main sponsors, Caldera Systems Inc. and SuSE GmbH, about 50 KDE core developers from all over the world will be able to come together and work on the future development of KDE.<br />
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According to Waldo Bastian, KDE core developer, "KDE is being developed by a large group of volunteers from all over the world. This event is a unique opportunity to meet the other developers. Although we are in constant contact via Internet, most of us have never met each other in person. During the meeting we hope to define the roadmap for the next major release of KDE which is planned for the first half of the next year. Besides that, it will be great fun!"<br />
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The event has been made possible with the financial help of Linux distributors SuSE and Caldera. SuSE Chairman Roland Dyroff about SuSE's involvement "SuSE is very commited to the development of KDE. Thanks to KDE, Linux is quickly becoming a viable alternative on the Desktop market. By supporting events like this we make sure that the KDE Team can continue its marvelous work in an even faster pace."<br />
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"Caldera Systems is proud to have the opportunity to sponsor this event in order to show our appreciation to the KDE team for their effort. We are pleased with the progress the team has made in the latest releases and look forward to being able to provide KDE 2.0 to our customers in the future." says Drew Spencer, Vice President of Engineering at Caldera Systems Inc.<br />
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===About KDE===<br />
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KDE is a collaborative project by hundreds of developers worldwide to create a sophisticated, customizable and stable desktop environment employing a network-transparent, intuitive user interface. In addition, many KDE users have assisted in the preparation of new releases by providing constructive feedback, suggestions and software patches. KDE is working proof of the power of the open source software development model. More information on KDE can be found at www.kde.org.<br />
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===About Caldera===<br />
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Caldera Systems, Inc. is the Linux for Business technology leader in designing, developing and marketing Linux-based business solutions including OpenLinux, NetWare for Linux, Linux technical training, certification and support. Caldera Systems can be reached at 888-GO-Linux (888-465-4689) or via E-mail at linux@calderasystems.com.<br />
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===About SuSE===<br />
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SuSE, with a workforce of over 160 people, is one of the leading Linux companies worldwide. The SuSE Linux distribution is used by more than 50,000 business customers worldwide due to its stability and high quality. For an efficient use of Linux in a business environment SuSE offers an extensive palette of qualified consulting and support services, as well as commercial Linux software and complete Linux systems. SuSE is contributing considerably to the development of Linux for projects such as the Linux kernel, glibc, XFree86[tm], KDE, ISDN4Linux, ALSA (AdvancedLinux Sound Architecture) and USB (Universal Serial Bus). Get further information at www.suse.com or reach SuSE via E-mail to suse@suse.de.<br />
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==KDE-Two is sponsored by==<br />
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* [http://www.suse.de/ SuSE GmbH]<br />
* [http://www.caldera.com/ Caldera Inc.]<br />
* [http://www.troll.no/ Troll Tech AS]<br />
* [http://www.siemens.de/ Fujitsu Siemens Computers]<br />
* [http://www.mut.de/ Markt & Technik]<br />
* [http://www.addison-wesley.de/ Addison - Wesley]<br />
* [http://www.corel.com/ Corel]<br />
* [http://www.redhat.com/ Red Hat]<br />
* [http://www.ibm.com/ IBM]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History&diff=1904KDE Project History2010-02-07T13:50:32Z<p>Dario: /* Developer Meetings */</p>
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<div>The KDE project started on October 14th 1996 (and the project has thus celebrated its tenth birthday already) with a call for programmers in comp.os.linux.misc: the [[#|original announcement of the KDE Project in 1996]] (use Google™ Groups to find the [http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.misc/tree/browse_frm/thread/4836e257721ab7fb/cb4b2d67ffc3ffce?rnum=1&_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.os.linux.misc%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fthread%2F4836e257721ab7fb%2F10e10a7a9e08943b%3Flnk%3Dgst%26#doc_cb4b2d67ffc3ffce original posting]).<br />
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At the 2003 Kastle conference ''Matthias Kalle Dalheimer'' gave a [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle/presentations/kastle-history/index.html presentation] about the history of the KDE project.<br />
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==Developer Meetings==<br />
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There have been roughly yearly large-scale developer meetings for the KDE community since very early in the project. Since the [http://ev.kde.org/ KDE e.V.] was created the yearly meeting is a requirement of its bylaws, so we can count on it now.<br />
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* [http://akademy2009.kde.org/ Akademy 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain] <br />
* [http://akademy2008.kde.org/ Akademy 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium]<br />
* [http://akademy2007.kde.org/ aKademy 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland]<br />
* [http://conference2006.kde.org/ aKademy 2006 - Dublin, Ireland]<br />
* [http://conference2005.kde.org/ aKademy 2005 - Málaga, Spain]<br />
* [http://conference2004.kde.org/ aKademy 2004 - Ludwigsburg, Germany]<br />
* [http://events.kde.org/info/kastle Kastle - Nové Hrady, Czech Republic 2003]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three - Nürnberg, Germany, 2002]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_Beta_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Three Beta - Trysil, Norway 2000]]<br />
* [[KDE_Project_History/KDE_Two_(Developer_Meeting)|KDE Two - Erlangen, Germany 1999]]<br />
* [# KDE One - Arnsberg, Germany 1997]<br />
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==Developer Awards==<br />
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KDE Developers have been awarding the so called 'aKademy awards' to fellow KDE Developers since aKademy 2005.<br />
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* [# aKademy 2009 - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain]<br />
* [# aKademy 2008 - Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium]<br />
* [# aKademy 2007 - Glasgow, Scotland]<br />
* [# aKademy 2006 - Dublin, Ireland]<br />
* [# aKademy 2005 - Málaga, Spain]<br />
* [# Full list]<br />
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==KDE in the Press==<br />
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Articles about KDE have been collected in this archive of KDE in the press through the year 2000. For more current mentions see the [http://dot.kde.org KDE News site]<br />
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* [# 2000]<br />
* [# 1999]<br />
* [# 1998]</div>Dariohttps://community.kde.org/index.php?title=KDE_Project_History/KDE_Three_Beta_(Developer_Meeting)&diff=1903KDE Project History/KDE Three Beta (Developer Meeting)2010-02-07T13:49:08Z<p>Dario: /* I Con Do It -- Icons in KDE 2 */</p>
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<div>=KDE Three Beta in Trysil, Norway: Part 1=<br />
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==Pre KDE 2.0 Progress Report==<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot0katie.png|200px|thumb|left|Katie]]<br />
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Sorry, Konqi the KDE dragon is busy working very hard on the next release, but Katie his girlfriend is here to tell you what's going on.<br />
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A lot has happened with KDE since the last beta. The developers have been extra productive, thanks mostly to having the opportunity to work together face-to-face. For ten days a collection of core KDE developers met in Trysil, Norway. The main purpose of the meeting was to fix as many KDE 2 bugs as possible and to make any important changes in functionality, appearance, and behaviour.<br />
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The feedback from the early betas of KDE 2.0 has been incredible. Bug reports don't sound very pleasant, but there's nothing developers like better. Thanks to the efforts of all those who have tested previous betas, KDE 2.0 is now more stable, efficient, coherent and consistent than ever before.<br />
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To all those who contributed bug reports, we extend great thanks. KDE works as a project only when each aspect of the system is supported. The developers write software so quickly they don't have time to find all the bugs, so contributions are invaluable.<br />
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Note to those who reported bug(s): If your bug was closed but the developer responsible did not send you a personal message, we apologise. The time we have had recently to work together we have had to use wisely and getting the bugs fixed first has been top priority. If you want further information from a developer, please get in contact and we will do our best to find time to help.<br />
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Listing all the fixes that have been made since the last beta on this page would be dull, so instead we present a summary of changes that may interest the user and a few (important) notes for developers. Rest assured that we have worked most on improving stability, so if the list of changes presented here doesn't impress, you should find that the improvements in stability are reason enough to upgrade. No-one likes working at a desk with wobbly legs!<br />
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==The desktop in general==<br />
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The first thing you will notice when you start the new KDE is that you will get extra feedback, showing you what KDE is doing as it starts up.<br />
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The overall look has changed slightly. After some consideration, we changed the default colours and made minor adjustments to the way controls look. Screenshot showing new KDE look We hope you will agree that the new look is fresher and easier on the eye, but of course KDE is highly configurable, so feel free to exercise your right to disagree!<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot1.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot showing new KDE look]]<br />
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The new window controls should be not only easier to see but also more consistent and attractive. A nice new feature is that when a window is not active its contrast is reduced This makes it easier to see which is the active window.<br />
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You might notice that our Unicode (international text) support has been further improved. Window title bars now show Unicode text correctly. The whole window border design has changed considerably. The new style is prettier, faster and easier to use.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot2.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of titlebar, showing off Unicode support]]<br />
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As those of you who used KDE 1 should remember, it was possible to move the menu bar of all applications to the top of the screen. While this may not seem very useful, it's designed to make it easier to work and to save some desktop space (you only have one menu bar instead of one per window.) To test it out, try moving the mouse to the menu at the top of a window. If you're not a good shot with the pointer, you have to adjust your aim. With the menu bar at the top of the screen, you can 'throw' the pointer to the top and be sure to hit the menu bar every time. This feature is configurable via the control centre.<br />
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When you move the mouse pointer into a text editing control and start typing, the mouse pointer now disappears until you touch the mouse again. This stops the pointer getting of the way of what you type.<br />
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Anyone who has a large monitor or less than 20/20 vision will welcome the addition of a set of larger mouse pointers.<br />
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All applications that use tool bars are enhanced by an improved mechanism for layout. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot3.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of toolbar]]<br />
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When there is no room to show the entire bar at once, it shows a pop-up menu at one end. This helps most on KOffice applications such as KWord, where your screen can rapidly fill up with tool bars.<br />
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If you are used to using one of the extra mouse-focus settings (where windows are activated by moving the pointer over them rather than clicking) then you will be pleased to hear that some extra features have been provided that make these modes easier to use and more configurable.<br />
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There is now a single point of configuration for all system notifications. This means that you can turn on and off sounds, choose to see pop up messages instead of sounds, etc. This feature is great if you are deaf or prefer to have a quiet computer (or simply can't hear your computer's sounds over your music!)<br />
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Drag and drop functionality has been extended. Where you expect to be able to drag something, it's quite likely you now can. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot4.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of kcalc with coloured buttons]]<br />
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You can select a wallpaper image by dragging pictures from the Konqueror web browser directly to the desktop. You can set the colours of the buttons of your calculator. Just try it and see!<br />
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There is now a new international keyboard manager. This sits in the 'system tray' (a place for applications to 'dock' in the panel.) and is based on the 'XKB' standard.<br />
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FreeBSD users will be pleased to hear that extensive platform-specific fixes have been carried out and that KDE 2 works almost without (FreeBSD-related-) problems.<br />
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Applications now start faster. More intelligent design of startup sequences reduces the time needed before you get to start using the program.<br />
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==The desktop panel ("Kicker")==<br />
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The clock has been reworked and sports a stylish new LCD-style face. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot5.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of clock]]<br />
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Of course, the look can be configured to your heart's content.<br />
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The utility named 'Klipper' has been moved to the base package. It appears on the panel 'system tray', represented by a picture of a clipboard. This excellent little tool watches your desktop and whenever you select some text, it will save it for you.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot6.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of klipper]]<br />
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This means that you can go back and find that email address you selected but never got around to saving, but Klipper is a little more intelligent than that. It notices when you select an Internet address, and will quietly ask you if you would like it to browse to a site for you.<br />
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The desktop pager has been cleaned up and given life. It can show your desktops by number or name, or by showing a miniature picture of the screen. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot7.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of desktop pager]]<br />
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You can set the number of desktops too, for those people who can cope with working on sixteen virtual screens.<br />
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Your task bar doesn't look much more exciting than usual, but notice that when your modify a document in a KDE application, the task bar button shows an indicator to remind you (together with the window title changing to include the word '[modified]').<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot8.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of 'modified' indicator in taskbar]]<br />
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This can be highly useful when you're shutting down and need to see in which applications you still need to save your work.<br />
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You will also see another new 'applet' (or mini-program, running inside the panel.)<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot9.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of application launcher applet]]<br />
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This allows you to type commands, in practically the same way as the dialog that pops up when you type Alt-F2. It's not just for command line freaks. If you're a faster typer than a mouse clicker, you will find you can start your applications faster and open web sites with less energy-wasting hand movement.<br />
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The icons on the panel have a new addition, which allows you to show the desktop background on top of all your windows. Quite handy when you have dropped a file onto the desktop and want to read it, but don't want to sort through a stack of windows.<br />
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In the last beta, you might have noticed that you could add icons to your panel by dragging them from the 'K' menu. This has been extended to allow dragging a whole 'group'. To avoid sticky situations, this function has been moved to the right mouse button. You can choose whether to add the group to the panel as a file manager URL, which opens a Konqueror window to display the group contents, or as a 'Quick browser', which uses a menu.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot10.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of 'file manager URL or QuickBrowser' menu]]<br />
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Your 'K' menu has another new feature. It can be edited to contain anything you like. Don't like the default ordering of items ? Fancy some better icons for your applications ? Fire up the new menu editor (available in the 'System' menu) and drag some entries about.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot11.png|200px|thumb|left|New menu editor]]<br />
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Other enhancements to the panel include extended configurability and a feature that allows you to select which 'applets' you trust to run inside it. If you download a new applet and it crashes, taking the panel with it, you can tell the panel to stop trusting it, which means the applet will only be able crash itself in future!<br />
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==The file manager and web browser ("Konqueror")==<br />
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In file manager mode, you will notice a new set of icons, designed to be easier to recognise and easier on the eye. When you activate an icon (by clicking it) you get instant feedback via a tiny animation (you have to see this in action to understand how useful it is). <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot12.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of app-starting indication]]<br />
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If the click launches an application, a button appears in the desktop task bar immediately. If the application takes time to start up, you at least know that it is on its way. These features also apply to the rest of KDE, for consistency.<br />
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For those who find themselves annoyed by web sites that use tiny, unreadable text, you should be pleased to hear that you can now set a minimum size for text when you browse web pages. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot13.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of configurable minimum font size and styles of web fonts]]<br />
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You can also set the text styles used for each type of text that a web page may specify.<br />
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Web browsing should now be smoother and pages should be drawn a lot more quickly. Badly drawn pages should be drawn better and be less likely to cause a crash.<br />
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A brief security audit has been made, to catch any potential weaknesses before release.<br />
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Last but not least for Konqueror, Java applet embedding support is now working. This should fix a lot of web pages and improve playing Internet-based games.<br />
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You can now browse an archive (tar file, even compressed ones) in Konqueror. You can extract files by simply dragging them elsewhere. You can even enable the 'image preview' mode !<br />
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It's now a lot easier to associate applications with file types. For example, if you want to view PNG images with XV instead of within Konqueror itself, you can right-click on a PNG file, select "Edit File Type" and pick "XV" from the graphics section.<br />
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==Applications==<br />
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A new application named KSysGuard has been integrated into the base system. KSysGuard gives you complete control over the programs you are running, and provides useful statistics to help you discover what is going on 'behind the scenes'. For those with a taste for power, you can even ask KSysGuard to monitor and allow you to control a machine running at another location, via the Internet. Displays can be freely configured on any number of worksheets by simply dragging them from the sensor browser onto a worksheet. Worksheets can be individually saved and loaded and will be restored automatically when ksysguard is launched.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot14.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of KSysguard]]<br />
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A new news reader named KNode has been maturing rapidly and officially replaces in the network package the two readers included with KDE 1, which are both no longer maintained by their authors, in the network package. KNode makes a great companion to the system news manager called leafnode. It has a beautiful user interface, makes full use of the new features of KDE 2, is feature packed, and even manages to pass much of "The Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval" test. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot16.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of KNode]]<br />
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KWrite, the standard KDE text editor, is now network transparent. This means you can drop a text document onto its window from Konqueror and it will be loaded automatically, <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot15.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of kwrite opening from an ftp site]]<br />
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in exactly the same way as if you had dropped a file from your hard disk. Of course, saving works the same way, but you need permission to save to other people's machines, so don't expect to be able to save to www.kde.org!<br />
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The two mail monitor applications from KDE 1 have merged into one. The new version has the features of both and an improved look and feel. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot17.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of the new KDE mail monitor]]<br />
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The Control Center modules have been much improved. The layout of many modules has been made more logical. Keyboard navigation has been enhanced. Many modules have new features. The place in which you configure certain values has been rethought, so you should find the option you want in the place you expect to find it. The help is also greatly improved. There is 'quick help' for many items, which allows you to find out what a switch, slider etc. does before using it.<br />
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KMail's support for the standard kde address book library (libkab) was finished. Choice from a variety of different address book GUIs is implemented. In KMail's "Configuration" dialog, in the section "Appearance", the tab "Addressbook" lets user select between traditional kmail addressbook, kdeutils/kab and kdepim/abbrowser.<br />
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ABBrowser, the addressbook browser part of the kdepim package, is a new addressbook application chosen to be ready for inclusion in KDE-2.0. It makes use of libkab (the central KDE addressbook library) as a backend, has unlimited undo/redo, and exciting Drag'N'Drop functionality amongst other features.<br />
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==KOffice, the KDE office suite==<br />
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KSpread, the KOffice spreadsheet application, has undergone some major internal work. Spreadsheets should now flicker less, memory consumption has dropped, and the whole application is faster. There are new formulae available, together with documentation on how to use them. Multi-row cells work correctly now. Another new feature is that KSpread can now perform calculations using times and dates.<br />
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KPresenter, the KOffice presentations application, has a new 'rich text' editing facility. This powerful feature makes it easy to change the way that text looks and see the results as you type! The text selection mechanism has been much improved and indentation is more powerful. Now you can even use rotated text!<br />
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KIllustrator, the drawing tool, has now been converted to the new KOffice architecture, which makes it more consistent in use, and is much improved in many areas.<br />
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KChart, the charting tool that accompanies the office suite, is much improved. It offers a larger selection of chart types, together with a 'wizard' to guide you through the steps needed to create a chart.<br />
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Printing has been generally improved. The main advantage you will see is that you can now print a document which is embedded within another.<br />
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==Development information==<br />
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Most memory leaks in the [http://techbase.kde.org/ KDE libraries] have been tracked down and fixed, with the help of a professional memory debugging tool.<br />
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A new set of DCOP tools have has been written that allow you to inspect and use the interface of an object belonging to another application.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot18.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of kdcop]]<br />
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There is a graphical tool and a shell tool for DCOP. You can probably see how the graphical tool works, so here's some examples with the shell tool. See if you can guess what they do !<br />
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* dcop konqueror qt/.*mainwindow#1 iconify<br />
* dcop konqueror qt/.*mainwindow#1 show<br />
* dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper mywallpaper.png 4<br />
* dcop konqueror KonquerorIface openBrowserWindow http://www.kde.org<br />
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[http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/signalsandslots.html Signals and slots] now work over application boundaries via DCOP!<br />
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The [http://koffice.kde.org/ KOffice] core libraries have been extensively cleaned up. The old custom-written XML parser has been removed and replaced with calls to Qt's built-in DOM parser. The file format used by KPresenter has been cleaned up to make it easier to work with. It is of course backward compatible with the old format. KSpread uses a new advanced system for runtime cell referencing, making it orders of magnitude faster and use much less memory.<br />
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KWrite has been ported to the new KDE 2.0 style for applications, using the XMLGUI application framework and is now translatable. This editor is an important component of the system so developers should feel more confident in its suitability as a standard editor part.<br />
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==Credits==<br />
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"Katie the Dragonesse" image by Agnieszka Czajkowska<br />
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Contents of this document authored by Rik Hemsley, member of KDE Team.<br />
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Thanks for contents contributions to Don Sanders and Chris Schläger.<br />
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Screenshots as well as fixes and audit of contents by KDE Team.<br />
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Many improvements and bug fixes of KDE 2 source code were performed during the KDE-Three Beta reunion in Trysil, Norway. Many thanks go to the sponsors that made this great KDE development event possible:<br />
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* [http://qt.nokia.com/ Troll Tech] and [http://www.novell.com/linux/ SuSE Inc.] funded lodging, hardware, Internet connections, part of travel expenses and many other.<br />
* Travel was also sponsored by Caldera and Mandrake Linux.<br />
* Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB provided part of travel fees as well as meat and sausages.<br />
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=KDE Three Beta in Trysil, Norway: Part 2=<br />
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==New and old clothes for KDE==<br />
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If you have had the opportunity of using a recent KDE2 beta, you may know that KDE2 has supported widget themes for quite a while now. You may have noticed that these themes are fast. Really fast. And even those themes using pixmaps and gradients run at a decent speed, thanks mostly to Qt's excellent theming-engine and our optimized pixmap storage and cache mechanism.<br />
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In addition to native KDE2 themes, we are pleased to announce that KDE now supports pixmap GTK themes. For importing a GTK theme into KDE, you just need to use the 'klegacyimport' wizard, available as a little standalone GUI application. However, while GTK themes are displayed faster and more efficiently than even native GTK itself, we do not recommend using this format for creating new themes. Theme developers should prefer KDE2's native widget theming which yields superior results both in terms of quality and speed. A nice HowTo and some documentation on KDE2 theming is available here.<br />
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One of the central commands of KDE is unification of the desktop experience. In respect for this, the excellent mechanism of KDE look propagation to non-KDE apps was recently extended so that GTK+ based applications be also taken into account. As a consequence, when the user chooses to export KDE look to external applications, not only compliant xrdb applications (like those using the Motif toolkit) or pure Qt applications will obey, but all applications that use GTK+ will display KDE's color schemes and fonts.<br />
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For the curious, here are some screenshots of KDE2 using GTK themes:<br />
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==I Con Do It -- Icons in KDE 2==<br />
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In KDE2, icons are themable as well. A nice application of this feature can be seen if you start KDE2 on an 8-bit color display. In this case, KDE will automatically default to a carefully crafted icon theme based on a 40-color palette: 216 extra colors are left for the more color-greedy applications. Of course, on a true color display, you would get the hi-color icon theme.<br />
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The size of the icons can also be easily changed. Just right-click on the toolbar handle, and you'll find a menu with a selection of various icon sizes. Or change the icon size in other locations or globally from the KDE Control Center. This way you can make optimal use of your desktop space and monitor:<br />
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Also notable are the various icon effects. These include levels of greyscaling, highlighting, colorization, saturation/hue, semitransparency... and the ability to customize the behavior and appearance of the icons in all the various states (MouseOver, default, disabled) and locations (desktop, toolbars, menus, panel).<br />
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In fact, if you are creative enough, you can do such things as make Konqueror look like Netscape. Or Internet Explorer. Or make it look like something entirely different. We tried our hand at it:<br />
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<div>=KDE Three Beta in Trysil, Norway: Part 1=<br />
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==Pre KDE 2.0 Progress Report==<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot0katie.png|200px|thumb|left|Katie]]<br />
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Sorry, Konqi the KDE dragon is busy working very hard on the next release, but Katie his girlfriend is here to tell you what's going on.<br />
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A lot has happened with KDE since the last beta. The developers have been extra productive, thanks mostly to having the opportunity to work together face-to-face. For ten days a collection of core KDE developers met in Trysil, Norway. The main purpose of the meeting was to fix as many KDE 2 bugs as possible and to make any important changes in functionality, appearance, and behaviour.<br />
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The feedback from the early betas of KDE 2.0 has been incredible. Bug reports don't sound very pleasant, but there's nothing developers like better. Thanks to the efforts of all those who have tested previous betas, KDE 2.0 is now more stable, efficient, coherent and consistent than ever before.<br />
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To all those who contributed bug reports, we extend great thanks. KDE works as a project only when each aspect of the system is supported. The developers write software so quickly they don't have time to find all the bugs, so contributions are invaluable.<br />
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Note to those who reported bug(s): If your bug was closed but the developer responsible did not send you a personal message, we apologise. The time we have had recently to work together we have had to use wisely and getting the bugs fixed first has been top priority. If you want further information from a developer, please get in contact and we will do our best to find time to help.<br />
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Listing all the fixes that have been made since the last beta on this page would be dull, so instead we present a summary of changes that may interest the user and a few (important) notes for developers. Rest assured that we have worked most on improving stability, so if the list of changes presented here doesn't impress, you should find that the improvements in stability are reason enough to upgrade. No-one likes working at a desk with wobbly legs!<br />
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==The desktop in general==<br />
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The first thing you will notice when you start the new KDE is that you will get extra feedback, showing you what KDE is doing as it starts up.<br />
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The overall look has changed slightly. After some consideration, we changed the default colours and made minor adjustments to the way controls look. Screenshot showing new KDE look We hope you will agree that the new look is fresher and easier on the eye, but of course KDE is highly configurable, so feel free to exercise your right to disagree!<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot1.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot showing new KDE look]]<br />
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The new window controls should be not only easier to see but also more consistent and attractive. A nice new feature is that when a window is not active its contrast is reduced This makes it easier to see which is the active window.<br />
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You might notice that our Unicode (international text) support has been further improved. Window title bars now show Unicode text correctly. The whole window border design has changed considerably. The new style is prettier, faster and easier to use.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot2.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of titlebar, showing off Unicode support]]<br />
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As those of you who used KDE 1 should remember, it was possible to move the menu bar of all applications to the top of the screen. While this may not seem very useful, it's designed to make it easier to work and to save some desktop space (you only have one menu bar instead of one per window.) To test it out, try moving the mouse to the menu at the top of a window. If you're not a good shot with the pointer, you have to adjust your aim. With the menu bar at the top of the screen, you can 'throw' the pointer to the top and be sure to hit the menu bar every time. This feature is configurable via the control centre.<br />
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When you move the mouse pointer into a text editing control and start typing, the mouse pointer now disappears until you touch the mouse again. This stops the pointer getting of the way of what you type.<br />
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Anyone who has a large monitor or less than 20/20 vision will welcome the addition of a set of larger mouse pointers.<br />
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All applications that use tool bars are enhanced by an improved mechanism for layout. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot3.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of toolbar]]<br />
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When there is no room to show the entire bar at once, it shows a pop-up menu at one end. This helps most on KOffice applications such as KWord, where your screen can rapidly fill up with tool bars.<br />
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If you are used to using one of the extra mouse-focus settings (where windows are activated by moving the pointer over them rather than clicking) then you will be pleased to hear that some extra features have been provided that make these modes easier to use and more configurable.<br />
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There is now a single point of configuration for all system notifications. This means that you can turn on and off sounds, choose to see pop up messages instead of sounds, etc. This feature is great if you are deaf or prefer to have a quiet computer (or simply can't hear your computer's sounds over your music!)<br />
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Drag and drop functionality has been extended. Where you expect to be able to drag something, it's quite likely you now can. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot4.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of kcalc with coloured buttons]]<br />
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You can select a wallpaper image by dragging pictures from the Konqueror web browser directly to the desktop. You can set the colours of the buttons of your calculator. Just try it and see!<br />
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There is now a new international keyboard manager. This sits in the 'system tray' (a place for applications to 'dock' in the panel.) and is based on the 'XKB' standard.<br />
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FreeBSD users will be pleased to hear that extensive platform-specific fixes have been carried out and that KDE 2 works almost without (FreeBSD-related-) problems.<br />
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Applications now start faster. More intelligent design of startup sequences reduces the time needed before you get to start using the program.<br />
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==The desktop panel ("Kicker")==<br />
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The clock has been reworked and sports a stylish new LCD-style face. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot5.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of clock]]<br />
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Of course, the look can be configured to your heart's content.<br />
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The utility named 'Klipper' has been moved to the base package. It appears on the panel 'system tray', represented by a picture of a clipboard. This excellent little tool watches your desktop and whenever you select some text, it will save it for you.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot6.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of klipper]]<br />
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This means that you can go back and find that email address you selected but never got around to saving, but Klipper is a little more intelligent than that. It notices when you select an Internet address, and will quietly ask you if you would like it to browse to a site for you.<br />
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The desktop pager has been cleaned up and given life. It can show your desktops by number or name, or by showing a miniature picture of the screen. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot7.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of desktop pager]]<br />
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You can set the number of desktops too, for those people who can cope with working on sixteen virtual screens.<br />
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Your task bar doesn't look much more exciting than usual, but notice that when your modify a document in a KDE application, the task bar button shows an indicator to remind you (together with the window title changing to include the word '[modified]').<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot8.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of 'modified' indicator in taskbar]]<br />
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This can be highly useful when you're shutting down and need to see in which applications you still need to save your work.<br />
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You will also see another new 'applet' (or mini-program, running inside the panel.)<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot9.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of application launcher applet]]<br />
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This allows you to type commands, in practically the same way as the dialog that pops up when you type Alt-F2. It's not just for command line freaks. If you're a faster typer than a mouse clicker, you will find you can start your applications faster and open web sites with less energy-wasting hand movement.<br />
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The icons on the panel have a new addition, which allows you to show the desktop background on top of all your windows. Quite handy when you have dropped a file onto the desktop and want to read it, but don't want to sort through a stack of windows.<br />
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In the last beta, you might have noticed that you could add icons to your panel by dragging them from the 'K' menu. This has been extended to allow dragging a whole 'group'. To avoid sticky situations, this function has been moved to the right mouse button. You can choose whether to add the group to the panel as a file manager URL, which opens a Konqueror window to display the group contents, or as a 'Quick browser', which uses a menu.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot10.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of 'file manager URL or QuickBrowser' menu]]<br />
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Your 'K' menu has another new feature. It can be edited to contain anything you like. Don't like the default ordering of items ? Fancy some better icons for your applications ? Fire up the new menu editor (available in the 'System' menu) and drag some entries about.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot11.png|200px|thumb|left|New menu editor]]<br />
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Other enhancements to the panel include extended configurability and a feature that allows you to select which 'applets' you trust to run inside it. If you download a new applet and it crashes, taking the panel with it, you can tell the panel to stop trusting it, which means the applet will only be able crash itself in future!<br />
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==The file manager and web browser ("Konqueror")==<br />
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In file manager mode, you will notice a new set of icons, designed to be easier to recognise and easier on the eye. When you activate an icon (by clicking it) you get instant feedback via a tiny animation (you have to see this in action to understand how useful it is). <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot12.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of app-starting indication]]<br />
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If the click launches an application, a button appears in the desktop task bar immediately. If the application takes time to start up, you at least know that it is on its way. These features also apply to the rest of KDE, for consistency.<br />
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For those who find themselves annoyed by web sites that use tiny, unreadable text, you should be pleased to hear that you can now set a minimum size for text when you browse web pages. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot13.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of configurable minimum font size and styles of web fonts]]<br />
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You can also set the text styles used for each type of text that a web page may specify.<br />
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Web browsing should now be smoother and pages should be drawn a lot more quickly. Badly drawn pages should be drawn better and be less likely to cause a crash.<br />
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A brief security audit has been made, to catch any potential weaknesses before release.<br />
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Last but not least for Konqueror, Java applet embedding support is now working. This should fix a lot of web pages and improve playing Internet-based games.<br />
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You can now browse an archive (tar file, even compressed ones) in Konqueror. You can extract files by simply dragging them elsewhere. You can even enable the 'image preview' mode !<br />
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It's now a lot easier to associate applications with file types. For example, if you want to view PNG images with XV instead of within Konqueror itself, you can right-click on a PNG file, select "Edit File Type" and pick "XV" from the graphics section.<br />
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==Applications==<br />
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A new application named KSysGuard has been integrated into the base system. KSysGuard gives you complete control over the programs you are running, and provides useful statistics to help you discover what is going on 'behind the scenes'. For those with a taste for power, you can even ask KSysGuard to monitor and allow you to control a machine running at another location, via the Internet. Displays can be freely configured on any number of worksheets by simply dragging them from the sensor browser onto a worksheet. Worksheets can be individually saved and loaded and will be restored automatically when ksysguard is launched.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot14.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of KSysguard]]<br />
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A new news reader named KNode has been maturing rapidly and officially replaces in the network package the two readers included with KDE 1, which are both no longer maintained by their authors, in the network package. KNode makes a great companion to the system news manager called leafnode. It has a beautiful user interface, makes full use of the new features of KDE 2, is feature packed, and even manages to pass much of "The Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval" test. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot16.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of KNode]]<br />
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KWrite, the standard KDE text editor, is now network transparent. This means you can drop a text document onto its window from Konqueror and it will be loaded automatically, <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot15.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of kwrite opening from an ftp site]]<br />
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in exactly the same way as if you had dropped a file from your hard disk. Of course, saving works the same way, but you need permission to save to other people's machines, so don't expect to be able to save to www.kde.org!<br />
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The two mail monitor applications from KDE 1 have merged into one. The new version has the features of both and an improved look and feel. <br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot17.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of the new KDE mail monitor]]<br />
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The Control Center modules have been much improved. The layout of many modules has been made more logical. Keyboard navigation has been enhanced. Many modules have new features. The place in which you configure certain values has been rethought, so you should find the option you want in the place you expect to find it. The help is also greatly improved. There is 'quick help' for many items, which allows you to find out what a switch, slider etc. does before using it.<br />
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KMail's support for the standard kde address book library (libkab) was finished. Choice from a variety of different address book GUIs is implemented. In KMail's "Configuration" dialog, in the section "Appearance", the tab "Addressbook" lets user select between traditional kmail addressbook, kdeutils/kab and kdepim/abbrowser.<br />
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ABBrowser, the addressbook browser part of the kdepim package, is a new addressbook application chosen to be ready for inclusion in KDE-2.0. It makes use of libkab (the central KDE addressbook library) as a backend, has unlimited undo/redo, and exciting Drag'N'Drop functionality amongst other features.<br />
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==KOffice, the KDE office suite==<br />
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KSpread, the KOffice spreadsheet application, has undergone some major internal work. Spreadsheets should now flicker less, memory consumption has dropped, and the whole application is faster. There are new formulae available, together with documentation on how to use them. Multi-row cells work correctly now. Another new feature is that KSpread can now perform calculations using times and dates.<br />
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KPresenter, the KOffice presentations application, has a new 'rich text' editing facility. This powerful feature makes it easy to change the way that text looks and see the results as you type! The text selection mechanism has been much improved and indentation is more powerful. Now you can even use rotated text!<br />
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KIllustrator, the drawing tool, has now been converted to the new KOffice architecture, which makes it more consistent in use, and is much improved in many areas.<br />
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KChart, the charting tool that accompanies the office suite, is much improved. It offers a larger selection of chart types, together with a 'wizard' to guide you through the steps needed to create a chart.<br />
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Printing has been generally improved. The main advantage you will see is that you can now print a document which is embedded within another.<br />
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==Development information==<br />
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Most memory leaks in the [http://techbase.kde.org/ KDE libraries] have been tracked down and fixed, with the help of a professional memory debugging tool.<br />
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A new set of DCOP tools have has been written that allow you to inspect and use the interface of an object belonging to another application.<br />
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[[File:KDEProjectHistory_Meetings_screenshot18.png|200px|thumb|left|Screenshot of kdcop]]<br />
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There is a graphical tool and a shell tool for DCOP. You can probably see how the graphical tool works, so here's some examples with the shell tool. See if you can guess what they do !<br />
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* dcop konqueror qt/.*mainwindow#1 iconify<br />
* dcop konqueror qt/.*mainwindow#1 show<br />
* dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper mywallpaper.png 4<br />
* dcop konqueror KonquerorIface openBrowserWindow http://www.kde.org<br />
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[http://doc.trolltech.com/4.6/signalsandslots.html Signals and slots] now work over application boundaries via DCOP!<br />
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The [http://koffice.kde.org/ KOffice] core libraries have been extensively cleaned up. The old custom-written XML parser has been removed and replaced with calls to Qt's built-in DOM parser. The file format used by KPresenter has been cleaned up to make it easier to work with. It is of course backward compatible with the old format. KSpread uses a new advanced system for runtime cell referencing, making it orders of magnitude faster and use much less memory.<br />
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KWrite has been ported to the new KDE 2.0 style for applications, using the XMLGUI application framework and is now translatable. This editor is an important component of the system so developers should feel more confident in its suitability as a standard editor part.<br />
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==Credits==<br />
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"Katie the Dragonesse" image by Agnieszka Czajkowska<br />
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Contents of this document authored by Rik Hemsley, member of KDE Team.<br />
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Thanks for contents contributions to Don Sanders and Chris Schläger.<br />
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Screenshots as well as fixes and audit of contents by KDE Team.<br />
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Many improvements and bug fixes of KDE 2 source code were performed during the KDE-Three Beta reunion in Trysil, Norway. Many thanks go to the sponsors that made this great KDE development event possible:<br />
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* [http://qt.nokia.com/ Troll Tech] and [http://www.novell.com/linux/ SuSE Inc.] funded lodging, hardware, Internet connections, part of travel expenses and many other.<br />
* Travel was also sponsored by Caldera and Mandrake Linux.<br />
* Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB provided part of travel fees as well as meat and sausages.<br />
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=KDE Three Beta in Trysil, Norway: Part 2=<br />
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==New and old clothes for KDE==<br />
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If you have had the opportunity of using a recent KDE2 beta, you may know that KDE2 has supported widget themes for quite a while now. You may have noticed that these themes are fast. Really fast. And even those themes using pixmaps and gradients run at a decent speed, thanks mostly to Qt's excellent theming-engine and our optimized pixmap storage and cache mechanism.<br />
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In addition to native KDE2 themes, we are pleased to announce that KDE now supports pixmap GTK themes. For importing a GTK theme into KDE, you just need to use the 'klegacyimport' wizard, available as a little standalone GUI application. However, while GTK themes are displayed faster and more efficiently than even native GTK itself, we do not recommend using this format for creating new themes. Theme developers should prefer KDE2's native widget theming which yields superior results both in terms of quality and speed. A nice HowTo and some documentation on KDE2 theming is available here.<br />
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One of the central commands of KDE is unification of the desktop experience. In respect for this, the excellent mechanism of KDE look propagation to non-KDE apps was recently extended so that GTK+ based applications be also taken into account. As a consequence, when the user chooses to export KDE look to external applications, not only compliant xrdb applications (like those using the Motif toolkit) or pure Qt applications will obey, but all applications that use GTK+ will display KDE's color schemes and fonts.<br />
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For the curious, here are some screenshots of KDE2 using GTK themes:<br />
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==I Con Do It -- Icons in KDE 2==<br />
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In KDE2, icons are themable as well. A nice application of this feature can be seen if you start KDE2 on an 8-bit color display. In this case, KDE will automatically default to a carefully crafted icon theme based on a 40-color palette: 216 extra colors are left for the more color-greedy applications. Of course, on a true color display, you would get the hi-color icon theme.<br />
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The size of the icons can also be easily changed. Just right-click on the toolbar handle, and you'll find a menu with a selection of various icon sizes. Or change the icon size in other locations or globally from the KDE Control Center. This way you can make optimal use of your desktop space and monitor:<br />
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Also notable are the various icon effects. These include levels of greyscaling, highlighting, colorization, saturation/hue, semitransparency... and the ability to customize the behavior and appearance of the icons in all the various states (MouseOver, default, disabled) and locations (desktop, toolbars, menus, panel).<br />
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In fact, if you are creative enough, you can do such things as make Konqueror look like Netscape. Or Internet Explorer. Or make it look like something entirely different. We tried our hand at it:<br />
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