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KDE Contributor Conference 2003 "Kastle" Report

Posted by Hemos on from the read-all-about-it dept.

Last weekend the KDE Contributor Conference 2003 in Nove Hrady ("Kastle") ended. There's a conference report, all slides and papers have been published, and there are lots of photos including the obligatory group photo (use mouse pointer and look at the status bar to see the names!). Also part of kastle were the KOffice Developers' Meeting and the presentation of Qt 4.

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  1. window.status ? by CaptainBaz · · Score: 4, Informative

    Blockquoth the poster...

    obligatory group photo (use mouse pointer and look at the status bar to see the names!)

    But only in Internet Explorer, it would seem. Certainly not in Mozilla Firebird. It beggars belief that people who are trying to convince the world of the virtues of alternative and open systems can't even code cross-browser [d]HTML.

  2. OO.o format by Daengbo · · Score: 4, Informative
    File format
    We will switch to the OASIS (OpenOffice.org) file format for all the major applications. This has many advantages:
    • file format shared with the OpenOffice.org suite, we don't have to reinvent the wheel
    • we'll be able to drop our OOo import filters and use the export filters as a compatibility layer for older KOffice versions documents
    • we can actively participate in the standard file format creation in the the case of Kexi and Kugar which are applications that don't currently exist in OOo
    I can't believe how awesome this is. As they say, koffice users can now swap files with OO.o users on Windows. I somehow wonder how they will get the frame orinted approach in koffice to save well in the OpenOffice format, but I am all for the interoperability this will offer.
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  3. Here is a XHTML compliant version by zerodeux · · Score: 3, Informative

    Quickly sed'ed for correctness : http://mksp.zerodeux.net/contributors.html.

  4. Re:Group photo splash screen by dylan_- · · Score: 2, Informative
    the default splash screen has been changed to the group photo.
    It's nice an' all, but could we have it changed back please?
    The splash pics are in /usr/kde/3.1/share/apps/ksplash/pics so you can change them, and I believe if you put files in ~/.kde/share/apps/ksplash/pics you can have a customised one for your own login.

    Hope this helps.
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  5. Re:Stop with the stupid Ks... by rking · · Score: 4, Informative

    The K in KDE does not stand for anything. It is the character that comes before L in the Latin alphabet, which stands for Linux. It was chosen because KDE runs on many types of UNIX (and perfectly well on FreeBSD).

    It is true, or at least reasonably true, to say that the K doesn't stand for anything now. Claiming that it was chosen for any reason other than because KDE was originally called the Kool Desktop Environment is not true.

    Seriously, they started with a bad name. They very sensibly ditched it. No need to go on about it but no reason to pretend it never happened either.

  6. Re:This was not a troll by Rhone · · Score: 2, Informative

    I suspect your post was moderated as a troll because the complaint you made already gets made several times in every vaguely KDE-related thread. It's getting old.

    The continued, annoying repetition makes the "I'm sick of all the K's!" posts feel like trolls even when they aren't meant that way.