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 On The Desktop
 
    HancomLinux merges with theKompany.
    
                                                  [43][hancom-office.gif] 
                                                                          
    Back at the end of June, we covered some of the [44]office suites
    available for Linux. One of the ones that took us by surprise was a
    rather complete suite from Korean based HancomLinux. This company is
    firmly established in the Asian market but had little penetration in
    the U.S. or Europe. This week, Hancom took major moves to change all
    that.
    
    Hancom announced the [45]merger of its product line with long time KDE
    stalwart [46]theKompany. Shawn Gordon, CEO and founder of theKompany,
    was appointed the [47]CEO of the U.S. division of the combined
    operations, to be known as HancomLinux, USA. Gordon is currently
    staffing the new Orange County offices of HancomLinux USA.
    
    "The word processor started out as a Windows application which was
    ported via Wine initially," said Gordon during a LinuxWorld interview
    with LWN.net. "The other applications, as I understand it, were
    written directly for Qt. The word processor has now been ported to Qt,
    though it's still beta quality right now." All of theKompany's
    products, which include the Visio-like Kivio and the PIM application
    Aethera, have been ported to the new Qt3 windowing toolkit. That makes
    them readily portable to Windows and the Mac, along with Linux. But
    Hancom's products still require porting to the new widget set. "We
    plan on starting that process next week with the completion scheduled
    for a November release," said Gordon.
    
    HancomOffice 2.0 will include the standard word processor,
    spreadsheet, presentation graphics and raster graphics tools along
    with a flowcharting tool, database management package, web page
    designer and PIM (Personal Information Manager). theKompany brings
    their Aethera PIM product, renamed as QuickSilver in HancomOffice 2.0,
    to the table in this deal, along with Kivio (flowchart tool). With a
    complete package like this, KDE becomes more attractive to desktop
    solutions providers. Despite GNOME's strong design and energetic
    development effort, it still lacks production level applications of
    this nature.
    
    HancomLinux, which has approximately 80 employees in 3 locations, was
    formed in 1999 to take the Linux product line from Korean software
    company Haansoft. Haansoft has been the reported market leader in the
    word processing market in Korea with an estimated 83% share in 2000.
    
    We'll be posting the full interview with Shawn Gordon later, after
    some of the post LinuxWorld dust has had a chance to settle here.
    
 Desktop Environments
 
    KDE wins 'Best Open Source Project' at LinuxWorld. KDE dot News
    [48]reported that the KDE project won the "Best Open Source Project"
    award at LinuxWorld. KDE was well represented by both developers and
    the KDE League, which helps promote the environment. A [49]summary of
    the event for KDE has been posted, along with a fair number of related
    images.
    
    KMail 1.0.x, 1.1 billionth second problems. KMail users take note:
    versions prior to 1.0.29.x of this email package will [50]stop working
    and cause mail folder corruptions on September 9th! Users of version
    1.0.29.x will only lose functionality, but no folders will be damaged.
    The problem stems from improper handling of the billionth second of
    Unix time, which started officially on January 1st, 1970. It is,
    essentially, a minor Y2K of Unix time, though this is the first
    instance of a known problem stemming from this magic date.
    
    Interview With KDE's Konqueror Team (OSNews). OSNews is running [51]an
    interview with the Konqueror development team. "No, the goal is to
    make Konqueror as fast as Galeon, and preferably even faster, without
    stripping it down. Any stripping down would have to happen in
    Konqueror (which provides the user-interface) because KHTML only
    provides the rendering engine, there is little that can be stripped
    from the rendering engine without sacrificing standards compliance."
    (Thanks to Stefane Fermigier).
    
    KC KDE Issue #21. The latest [52]Kernel Cousin KDE is out. This issue
    is devoted to the events surrounding the start of KDE3 development and
    the Qt3 porting efforts.
    
    This week's GNOME Summary. The [53]GNOME Summary for September 1 is
    available. It covers the GNOME Accessibility Framework release, Sun's
    desktop division, and more.
    
    GNOME 1.4.1 Beta 2. Another beta of the upcoming [54]1.4.1 point
    release for GNOME has been announced.
    
    GNUstep Community site. The [55]GNUstep project has a new web site.
    The site is expected to have a new user oriented editorial each Friday
    helping end users make use of the evolving environment.
    
    Xfce news. A new release of XFce was announced last week. The new
    version, [56]3.8.7 adds a few new features like disabling user
    configuration options (for use in kiosks and set top boxes, for
    example) and fixes numerous bugs.
    
    In other XFce news, the XFce developers agreed to [57]drop their file
    manager, known as xftree, in favor of an independently developed file
    manager known as [58]ROX filer.
    
 Office Applications
 
    Sun shows new version of StarOffice (News.com). News.com [59]looks
    forward to StarOffice 6.0. "But the current version, 5.2, has been
    roundly criticized as a large and sluggish product. By default, the
    program tries to take over many desktop functions, coming with its own
    'Start' button and file browser, and all its programs load at once.
    Version 6.0 will break these programs into individual applications
    that can run independently, said software demonstrators at the
    LinuxWorld Conference and Expo where the software has been
    demonstrated this week."
    
    Is StarOffice ready to take on Microsoft Office? (ZDNet). This article
    on [60]StarOffice is mostly targeted at the Windows platforms but is
    still relevant to users of StarOffice on Linux. "China views
    Microsoft's desktop dominance with suspicion, raising the possibility
    that it will adopt Linux or even StarOffice on Windows. Microsoft's
    recent increase in licensing fees has inadvertently helped make
    StarOffice more attractive to Latin America and also to extremely
    budget-conscious organizations."
    
 Desktop Applications
 
    MacGIMP reviewed. [61]GIMP for MacOS X was reviewed this week by
    MacWrite.com. "As possibly the first packaged application for Mac OS
    X, MacGIMP opens up a new chapter in OS X's fresh history. It may well
    usher in a host of X11 applications meant to run locally on your Mac.
    This one also uses the X Window System very effectively, and sets a
    benchmark for other applications to reach for." (Thanks to [62]GIMP
    News)
    
    Appgen, Macmillan to launch Moneydance 3.0 and MyBooks 5.1 for Retail
    Vision. Are these [63]Linux based retail editions? Yes, they are.
    Review them a little.
    
    GNOME applets 1.4.0.4. A new release of the [64]GNOME Applets package
    was announced this past week. The GNOME Applets are a series of small
    applications such as clocks, file browsers and sound mixers that can
    be embedded in GNOME Panels. This is mostly a bug fix release.
    
 And in other news...
 
    Another new Linux-based Korean PDA expected soon (LinuxDevices).
    LinuxDevices.com [65]previews an upcoming Linux PDA, complete with
    picture. "The new PDA's application software includes PDA PIM
    (Personal Information Management) applications, Internet functions
    (web browsing, email, etc), and extensive multimedia capabilities
    (players for MPEG, MP3, etc.). A Korean-English dictionary and several
    games are also included with the device."
    
    gdkxft 1.1 released - Anti-Aliased fonts for GTK+ 1.2. Within days of
    the [66]1.0 release, a 1.1 release of [67]gdkxft has been announced.
    This package permits existing GTK+ 1.2 applications to incorporate
    anti-aliased text rendering in their widgets without recompiling the
    application. This works only with dynamically linked applications, of
    course. There are varied reports of success with this and the
    [68]primary web site for the project presents an ominous disclaimer:
    
      A botched install of gdkxft has the potential to make your X
      configuration unworkable.
      
    GTK+ 1.3.7. Owen Taylor posted a note for the release of [69]GTK+
    1.3.7, a developers version of the pre-GTK+ 2.0 series. This one still
    has lots of bugs, so only developers wishing to learn more about what
    2.0 will be like or who are interested in working on GTK+ itself
    should take the plunge.
    
    Section Editor: [70]Michael J. Hammel
    September 6, 2001
    
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    Minimalist Environments
    [81]Blackbox
    Widget Sets
    [82]GTK+
    [83]Qt
    Desktop Graphics
    [84]CorelDRAW (*)(w)
    [85]GIMP
    [86]KIllustrator (currently unavailable)
    [87]Photogenics (*)
    [88]Sketch
    Windows on Linux
    [89]WINE
    [90]Win4Lin
    [91]VMWare
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