Desktop News and Articles

Apple developer Maciej Stachowiak has announced a new policy for developers of the HTML rendering library Webkit. It will close the gap between Apple developers and external programmers.

The Open Office project is looking for a venue for the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon) 2008. Local organizational teams can apply before the 31 January deadline.

Version 1.1 of Sun Microsystems' ODF Plugin for Microsoft’s Office suite now includes a multi-language package. A new version of the OpenXML-ODF Translator is now available for downloading from Sourceforge.

The latest version of the office suite, version 2.3.1, removes bugs and closes vulnerabilities.

The KDE project has just published the first Version 4 Release Candidate of the free desktop environment.

The Open Document Foundation whose self-declared aim was to promote the Open Document Format has closed down.

Skype 2.0 Beta now gives Linux users the video functionality that Windows and Mac users have enjoyed for several months.

Version 2.3 of the French OOO-HG project recently presented a free map collection for Open Office. The 30MB collection, which was released under a Creative Commons license, comprises graphics that Open Office users can easily embed as documents in the gallery of the free office program.