"KDE 2.0 Development" Is Online (And OPL)

kupolu writes: "'KDE 2.0 Development,' a new book being published under the Open Publication License, is now available in full online. Another example of Open-ness at work. A quote from the story says, 'Since the book is released under the Open Publication License, it may be modified and redistributed online, which means that the book can be maintained (fixed, updated, expanded etc.) in the style of a free software project. In this spirit, volunteer translation of the book into five other languages has already begun.'" The book seems to be written in a nice, straightforward way. It starts off by explaining the motivations of the KDE project, but the bulk of the book is a combination of explanations and code examples covering everything from KParts to Mesa and OpenGL to multimedia integration. Happily, this book also serves in part as a user advocate -- programmers are reminded about the importance of readable dialogues and system responsiveness. You can go straight to the book, or check out the excellent andamooka project, which hosts the online version of this soon-available-in-print book.

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KDE Development..

[iamsure]

I'm glad to see this book come out. It seems to me that there are not nearly enough quality books on KDE & Gnome programming in general, and definitely not enough for KDE itself.

In the years to come we are going to need alot of quality tools to help pull programmers out of their reliance on the HUGE pile of high-quality crutches (ie, books on how to program in VB).

The transition to a free/open software world is not going to be won on the desktop alone. The other half of the fight is going to be for the commercial programmers.

With the establishment of the Gnome foundation, I was slightly worried that KDE might slow down a little bit. Thankfully, they didnt seem to miss a beat. :)