Re: Regressing to earlier versions.

john Culleton <[email protected]> Wed, 29 May 2013 10:33:44 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.quanta.user
Organization WexfordPress
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On Wed, 29 May 2013 16:26:09 +0200
"Dr. Martin Senftleben" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just want to step in, because I am one of those users who are very
> sad about Quanta's discontinuation.
> 
> Am 29.05.2013 00:30, schrieb erkin tek:
> > I like kate, give it a try.
> > 
> > I used it to code php, html, js
> 
> Such suggestions don't help much. Of course one can use quite a bunch
> of editors in replacement of Quanta, but Quanta offered much more
> than just being an editor.
> There are two things which I miss a lot with any other web/php
> development environment (not just editors!), and which were offered by
> quanta:
> 
> 1. code replacement on the fly, meaning replacing ISO-characters which
> are not in the common range with the HTML entity (particularly German
> Umlauts)
> 2. Pressing one key to upload the modified files to the server via
> ftp.
> 
> There are environments which allow modifiying the files online, but I
> want to work with local copies and not with the files that are on the
> server.
> 
> Currently I use an editor plus a ftp client, where I have to check
> which files I edited, and then upload them. That's just plain
> cumbersome. I haven't found any working alternative.
> 
> It's a pity, Trinity doesn't work on Kubuntu 13.4, either. So this
> option which I used to choose until recently is also gone. :-(
> 
> Regards
> Martin
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:45 PM, john Culleton
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> > 
> >     The Quanta that came with KDE3.5 was a favorite tool. The
> > Quanta that comes with KDE4 is totally incomprehensible. Short of
> > reinstalling slackware 12.2 on a spare partition, is there a way to
> > get back to the previous Quanta? The one with both a code window
> > and a web view window side by side?
> > 
> >     I used Trinity for a while but it won't work with Slackware 14.
> > 
> >     --
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Another feature I liked was the ability to view the code, view the
results, or view both side by side.

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