Nýjustu fréttir
| 20. febrúar |
Breytt skipulag
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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).
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| 19. febrúar |
Íslenski KDE hópurinn
með aðgang að CVS
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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.
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| 27. janúar |
Vefsíðan
breytt. |
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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
;-)
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| 26 janúar |
Kjarni 2.2.0
kemur út ! |
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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.
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| 25 janúar |
CVSUp lagað |
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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. |
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| 24 janúar |
LinuxJournal:
The K Desktop Environment, Version 1.0 |
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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." |
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| 24 January |
KPilot 3.1 Beta
8 released |
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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. |
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| 22 January |
Focus on KDE-1.1pre |
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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." |
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| 19 January |
KWMHeadlines
1.0 |
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(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.
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| 17 January |
InfoWorld: "Next
stop, the desktop?" |
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(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.
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| 15 January |
Linux for newbies
starts with KDE |
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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. |
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| 15 January |
QTalk-0.1 -
a Squeak IDE for KDE |
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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 |
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| 13 January |
Linux Journal
Readers' Choice |
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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. |
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| 12 January |
pyKDE 0.4, Python
bindings |
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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." |
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| 7 January |
Window Maker
0.50.0 (with KDE support) released |
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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. |
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| 4 January |
kooBase, Killer
App at OpenSound |
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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. |
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| 4 January |
Slackware to
include KDE |
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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. |
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| 4 January |
FAQ reorganization |
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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 |
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| 4 January |
kcvs2pack -
useful tool script |
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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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