Re: Any progress on Quanta for KDE 4?

On Friday, June 10, 2011 03:27:48 pm Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 06/10/2011 02:15 PM, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > John Culleton, 10.06.2011:
> >> On Friday, June 10, 2011 09:26:14 am Milian Wolff 
wrote:
> >>> Werner, 09.06.2011:
> >>>> Hi
> >>>> 
> >>>> What is the best (de facto) place/channel to watch 
for news about
> >>>> those plugins being released?
> >>> 
> >>> Our website (kdevelop.org), the planet 
(planetkde.org) or maybe even
> >>> this mailing list. I hope to remember to write a mail 
here once this
> >>> is done.
> >>> 
> >>> Bye
> >> 
> >> With these plugins will Kdevelop have a user interface 
and a
> >> functionality similar to Quanta++? Or will I have to 
learn a new
> >> package? If that is the case I can always learn Amaya 
or Bluefish
> >> instead. I have both on my machine.
> > 
> > No, KDevelop with these plugins will not equal Quanta3. 
Instead they
> > probably aim (for now?) at a more advanced user base, 
i.e. those who
> > write mostly PHP and don't need some fancy GUI to click 
together some
> > HTML stuff.
> > 
> > If Amaya or Bluefish fit your needs better, try them 
instead.
> > 
> >> Will the plugins be shipped with KDE?
> > 
> > Just like KDevelop is (for now?) in extragear, so will 
these plugins be
> > eventually. I'll release them together with the other 
plugins. Distro
> > packagers should then create easy-to-install packages 
for you, just like
> > with KDevelop and the PHP plugin.
> > 
> >> It looks like the developers want to extend Kdevelop 
but many users want
> >> Quanta++ back again. I Quanta++ has been abandoned as 
a project then say
> >> so and I will look elsewhere.
> > 
> > I'd rather say: There are no Quanta+ developers 
(sadly!) and we KDevelop
> > devs try to do our best to improve what we have. Note 
that most of us
> > don't have a need for Webdevelopment related things. 
Niko and me only
> > invest time on a few things which we personally would 
use (i.e. advanced
> > language support). Most of the old Quanta+ features 
don't appeal to us,
> > hence we don't spend time on bringing them back to 
live.
> > 
> > Anyhow, I suggest at least trying KDevelop for PHP 
development, before
> > you look elsewhere.
> > 
> > Bye
> 
> So, I guess the bottom line is that the best web 
authoring software
> available for any OS is just going to die off due to a 
lack of developer
> interest.
> 
> Bluefish is a pretty fair start on a good piece of 
software. Not even
> close to Quanta, but a start.
> 
> Just got Amaya installed and haven't had time to play 
with it much so
> can't really comment. It doesn't look as intuitive as 
Quanta at a first
> glance.
> 
> KompoZer is another fair start but it has some pretty bad 
habits.
> 
> Anyone else have any other suggestions?

If there were a way to run Quanta in a virtual window on
KDE4 machines that would do it.

Where can I find the source code for Quanta? 
-- 
John Culleton

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