The K Desktop Environment


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20. febrúar Breytt skipulag !

Íslenski KDE hópurinn hefur komist að samkomulagi um breytt skipulag í þýðingum.  Héðan í frá munu þýðendur "eiga" þýðingar sínar að því leyti að þeir bera ábyrgð á að halda þeim við, taka við ábendingum og athugasemdum, gera viðeigandi breytingar og senda þær inn í CVS grunninn (þ.e.a.s. til Loga!).

Þetta skipulag mun koma í veg fyrir að 2 eða fleiri þýðendur geri uppfærslur á sömu skrá án vitundar hvors annars.  Einnig munu þýðingar einungis batna því eigendur þýðinga þekkja sínar skrár manna best.

Næsta skref er að úthluta öllum skrám þannig að hver þýðandi hafi ekki of mikinn skammt.  Ef þú hefur áhuga á að taka að þér að viðhalda íslenskri þýðingu á einu eða fleiri KDE forritum, hafðu þá samband við annaðhvort núverandi þýðanda á stöðusíðunni eða Þórarin sem mun úthluta þér forriti (thori@mindspring.com).

 
 
19. febrúar Íslenski KDE hópurinn með aðgang að CVS !

Logi Ragnars tilkynnti í dag að Íslenski KDE hópurinn hefur loksins fengið aðgang að CVS grunninum sem heldur utan um KDE verkefnið.  Þetta eru mikil gleðitíðindi fyrir okkur sem höfum þurft að þola það að þýðingar okkar tóku viku eða meira að komast inn í kerfið.  Nú má stóla á það að nýjar .po skrár komist alltaf inn í kerfið innan sólarhrings!

Uppfærslur skulu líka sendast til Bjarna þannig að hann þurfi ekki að fylgjast með CVS og sækja skrár þaðan til að halda við þýðingunni sem brennd er á diska hér á landi.

 
 
27. janúar Vefsíðan breytt.
Nú er loksins að koma mynd á þessa vefsíðu enda kominn tími til því meðlimir á KDE-ISL listanum eru orðnir yfir 40! 

Ef þú hefur frétt handa áhugamönnum um KDE á Íslandi sendu þá Þórarni (thori@mindspring.com) tölvupóst.  Ef fréttin er tengd Linux, KDE, íslenskun tölvuviðmóta eða öðru þvíumlíku, þá verður hún kannski birt ;-)

 
 
26 janúar Kjarni 2.2.0 kemur út !
Hetjan hann Linus Torvalds tilkynnti í dag útgáfu 2.2.0 kjarnans sem beðið hefur verið eftir síðastliðin tvö ár. 

Þessi kjarni er með margar spennandi nýjungar svo sem betri stuðning fyrir fjölörgjörvavélar.

 
 
25 janúar CVSUp lagað
Stephan Kulow tilkynnir: 

Með hjálp Alex Zepeda og John Polstra (höfundur cvsup pakkans) tókst okkur að auka notagildi cvsup þjónustunnar sem boðið er upp á hjá cvs.kde.org. 

Margir höfðu tilkynnt sambandslit og þessi vandamál gerðu þjóninn óstöðugann.  Ég og John uppgötvuðum að þetta kom til af villu í Modula3 þýðandanum sem cvsup er vistþýtt með.  Forritið gat ekki séð um tvær beiðnir á sama tíma. 

Villan hefur verið lagfærð í þýðandanum og ég setti nýja útgáfu inn í morgun. 

Prófið þetta núna. 

Kveðja, Stephan 

P.S. Okkur vantar fleiri skráarspegla. Ef þú hefur vél með góðri tengingu, hafðu þá samband við Mark Huizer  til að setja up spegil. 

 
 
24 janúar LinuxJournal: The K Desktop Environment, Version 1.0
Í mars hefti Linux Journal er kynning á útgáfu 1.0 af KDE.  Þar stendur: "At the risk of sounding like a surfer, KDE was the sharpest, coolest window display I had ever seen on any operating system. I wanted my Linux desktop to look exactly like that."
 
 
24 January KPilot 3.1 Beta 8 released
Dan Pilone released a new beta version of KPilot, a KDE-based replacement for 3Com's software which accompanies the PalmPilot handheld computers series. It includes an address editor, drag and drop memo support, file (prc/prb) installation, incremental hot-syncing of whole pilot, as well as backup and restore capabilities. KPilot also supports conduits, currently offering a Pop Client conduit and a conduit to allow you to sync the Datebook with KOrganizer. 
 
 
22 January Focus on KDE-1.1pre
Avus sent in a note about Mining Company's Focus on Linux 57th issue titled Polishing KDE: It's Pre-1.1!. This carefully written article has a very nice description of the many new enhancements of the future KDE-1.1 over the veteran KDE-1.0. Citing: "What has been added are those two things so long lacking in the Linux desktop field: polish and maturity."
 
 
19 January KWMHeadlines 1.0
(seen on Freshmeat

Carmelo Piccione made public the first version of KWMHeadlines. This is a tool written in Perl and using the new disknav[igator] feature (authored by Pietro Iglio) from the panel of KDE 1.1. It can display the news headlines from Slashdot, Freshmeat, Linux Today ... by putting them in the K menu. 

 
 
17 January InfoWorld: "Next stop, the desktop?"
(seen on Linux Today

Chip Brookshaw of InfoWorld publishes an interesting introspection of the chances of Linux in the fight for the PC desktop. 

About our project, the author says: "KDE is the handiwork of the KDE project, a collection of software developers using the open-source model, and Caldera has integrated the software into its OpenLinux distribution. (KDE can also run on Red Hat Linux 5.2.) The Common Desktop Interface (CDE), a window manager that has been available for years on Unix, is another widely used GUI, but KDE has won over many in the Linux community." 

While keeping the already traditional line for this kind of discussions, the article remains interesting and well informed. 

 
 
15 January Linux for newbies starts with KDE
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Linux by Manuel Alberto Ricart was released at 22 December 1998 by Que and is available from the publisher (you can search for it on the site using the author's name) as well as from Amazon.com. The first of the three parts of this book is titled: "Working with Linux in a Graphical Environment--The KDE Desktop". The accompanying CD-ROM includes Caldera's OpenLinux 1.3 (which includes KDE) and StarOffice 4.0. Many thanks to Uwe Thiem for signaling this release. 
 
 
15 January QTalk-0.1 - a Squeak IDE for KDE
Jörg Brunsmann announces: 

 Squeak is an open, highly-portable Smalltalk-80 implementation whose virtual machine is written entirely in Smalltalk. To achieve portability Squeak does not support native widgets. This is unfortunate since Smalltalk is a wonderful object oriented language. Hence, QTalk is an effort to build a rapid application environment using the QT and KDE widget set and the Squeak object engine. QTalk's objective is to build an integrated development tool which fits completly into the KDE environment and which allows the fast development of KDE applications. An experimental first release can be downloaded from here

 
 
13 January Linux Journal Readers' Choice
Uwe Thiem observed that the January 1999 issue of Linux Journal publishes a "1998 Reader's Choice" in which, at page 31, KDE can be found as winner of "Favorite Window Manager" with FVWM as a runner up. Also of interest is that, on page 30, S.u.S.E is listed as "Favorite Linux Distribution" with Red Hat runner up. It is known that S.u.S.E includes (and integrates very well) KDE in its last versions. 
 
 
12 January pyKDE 0.4, Python bindings
Phil Thompson says: "I've put up v0.4 of my Python bindings for Qt/KDE at: http://www.river-bank.demon.co.uk/software. These are still work in progress. Enough has been implemented to get Python versions of the Qt tutorials and Kurt [Granroth]'s KMyApp working (74 classes so far) and these are included as examples." 
 
 
7 January Window Maker 0.50.0 (with KDE support) released
The Window Maker development team released today the version 0.50.0 of the reknown window manager. Most of the window management mechanisms defined by KDE are included (exceptions are sound events support and mini-icon setting). Alfredo Kojima states in the NEWS file distributed with the source that there could be some problems in the virtual desktops management because of implementation incompatibilities between Window Maker and standard kwm modules (like kpanel). Grab the source here. Many thanks to the Window Maker developers for their excellent work. 
 
 
4 January kooBase, Killer App at OpenSound
kooBase is a music application, including an extensive score editor, a drum editor, an event editor, general MIDI import/export, and a nice API that allows kooBase to be extended. Its authors are Jan Würther and Fabian Wenzel. OpenSound Systems elected kooBase as the Killer app of the month
 
 
4 January Slackware to include KDE
The ChangeLogof the current Slackware repository indicates that the K Desktop Environment has been included in this veteran Linux distribution at the end of november 1998. Life becomes easier for the KDE users which are also Slackware users. Thank you, Patrick Volkerding and Walnut Creek. 
 
 
4 January FAQ reorganization
Matthias Hoelzer-Kluepfel lets us know that the maintainer of the KDE FAQ is, from quite some time already, Lee Wee Tiong. Let us thank him for the great work. A large scale reorganization has been done on the FAQ pages, as well as some new additions. Also, the maintainers now provide nicely packaged HTML, postscript and ASCII versions. Go see the changes at the regular place
 
 
4 January kcvs2pack - useful tool script
Sirtaj Singh Kang uploaded to the cvs (in the kdesdk module, in the "scripts" directory) a script that can be used to extract single applications from the CVS tree in the form of tar packages (for now). This little tool is of obvious utility for the authors wanting to publish as separate packages their applications which mainly reside in the CVS tree. 
 
 


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