Following the move to Subversion, KDE CVS Digest, our weekly review of the code changes to KDE, was renamed to KDE Commit Digest; this week we also have a new domain at commit-digest.org.
Originally appearing in Linux Journal, a new KDE Kiosk tutorial is now available. It provides a great starting point for those interested in learning how the powerful KDE configuration framework is set up, with further insight into how to centrally customize a desktop setup.
This article, part of the Cooking with Linux series, covers several security related topics starting with steganography (take any message, encode it inside another message or a graphic image). The article then discusses password safes (so you don't have to remember a thousand passwords), including a detailed tutorial on KDE's own KWalletManager.
OSDir.com has published screenshots of recently released KDE 3.4 Beta 2 utilizing the "Klax" Live-CD. Jump over to their gallery with 70+ screenshots.
Being a guy with an accent on one of the letters of his name, you can imagine that I probably spend a lot of time entering so-called "special characters" in my documents and e-mails. Short of keeping a document with these letters already written, then copying, and pasting them, entering an é can be amazingly time consuming. Worst of all, while OpenOffice.org lets me click Insert, Special Character to select from a list, not all applications have a handy list of characters to choose from.
Christian Paratschek is a long term Gnome user who has has not looked at KDE for over two years. He has written about his experiences of testing out SimplyMepis for a week, comparing the two desktop environments and their applications and finding the areas in which KDE can tempt even a dyed-in-the-wool Gnome fan.
KDE::Enterprise is featuring
an interesting new article [pdf, 2Mb]
from Novell consultant Adrián Malaguti in which he explains step-by-step how to apply restrictive policies to a
In his latest "Cooking with Linux", Marcel Gagné covers a number of applications for monitoring and connecting to wireless access points, including KWiFiManager, the wireless LAN manager for KDE. Read all about it in "The Wireless Kitchen".
During LinuxTag 2004 the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) and the company credativ unveiled the Linux Government Desktop. The Linux Goverment Desktop has been developed within the scope of the project ERPOSS which evaluates Open Source Software in government environments.
KDE 3.2 Beta 2 was released last week for general testing and OSNews offers a preview of what is to expect from it early next year upon its release. The article mentions KDE's new features (faster loading times, Konqueror's Service Menus, Kontact, KPDF, Plastik theme etc), the problems that still plague it (cluttered KMenu and Konqueror menus, too many disorganized control center modules) and some constructive suggestions on how to get over the bloat without losing the functionality.