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+KNotes -- Notes for the K Desktop Environment
+=============================================
+
+KNotes aims to be a useful and full featured notes application for
+the KDE project. It tries to be as fast and lightweight as
+possible although including some advanced features.
+
+KNotes has already reached its second stage and I'm currently
+developing the third and probably last one.
+
+The second stage was the complete integration with the new KDE 2.
+The third stage will include adding the rest of the features from KDE 1's
+KNotes not yet ported and the possibility to edit rich text in all
+the notes.
+
+I try to provide code that is very clear and easy to understand and
+that can serve as a good example how to use KDE's windowmanager, KWin,
+the session management, the XMLGUI and the printing framework.
+
+KNotes can:
+
+    * accept drag and drop (even from a remote ftp site)
+    * mail your note
+    * print your note (not yet perfect)
+    * insert the current date
+    * have arbitrary colors for background and text
+    * have arbitrary sized notes
+    * use an arbitrary font for the body and the title
+    * do auto-indentation
+
+and remembers all this on a per note basis on exit.
+
+To get started, point the mouse pointer on a KNotes note and use the right
+mouse button to bring up the KNotes pop-up menu.
+
+A little history:
+KNotes was originally started by Bernd Wuebben for KDE 1. The goal was mainly
+to test and extend the kwm communications protocol as it was quite limited by
+that time.
+
+Wynn Wilkes then did the initial port of KNotes to the next generation of KDE,
+KDE 2. Some (hopefully rarely used) features are still not ported yet, see below
+for the list.
+
+Because I was using KNotes daily (and still do so - of course ;) I sent in a
+bugreport and got to test the fix for KDE 2.0. Since then I got really addicted
+to KNotes' code which is expressed by the fact that I'm the maintainer now :-))
+
+Known issues:
+    * printing is not fully implemented yet
+
+Features not (yet?) ported from KNotes 1.x:
+    * do two different frame styles
+    * associate an alarm timer to a note and notify you on expiry
+
+If you have any feedback, suggestions, new features or little enhancements,
+please don't hesitate to drop me a mail. I still didn't find the patch of how
+to read the users' mind ;-))
+
+Have fun!
+
+Best Regards,
+  Michael  <brade@kde.org>