Re: help

Hi,

On Friday 26 September 2008, Alwin Augustin wrote:
> hi,
>
>  I am just joined and could you tell me the detail of the development
> ??? 

Welcome here. I'm not sure if you followed the discussion on the user 
list (quanta@, not quanta-devel@), the current state of development is 
unfortunately on hold from my side. We can also say that there is no 
active development at this point. Neverthless, I hope this won't stop 
you to work on Quanta in the future. I can tell from my pats experience 
that it was fun also when I started to work on Quanta as a single 
developer. In that case it was somewhat worse, because the old 
developers wanted the project to die, so I got no help aside of Eric 
telling me what to fix and implement. :) In any case, even with a 
somewhat delay, I'm here to answer and help.

After this introduction, i can give some details. The code is in the KDE 
svn, trunk "branch". The techbase.kde.org site contains lot of 
documentation how to check out it and compile. What you need (in case 
you run KDE 4.1.x) is are the kdevplatform and kdewebdev modules. At the 
moment I'm not sure if kdevplatform required kdelibs trunk or not, but 
ceratinly it is better to work on trunk kdelibs. kdepimlibs is also a 
dependency, because of the addressbook lookup inside Quanta. 
If you are still on KDE 3.5.x, then of course you need to build the 
kdelibs dependencies as well. See techbase about it.
There is no need to run KDE 4.1.x or KDE4 trunk if you don't want to, 
you can develop just fine KDE 4 applications from under KDE3. I still 
use KDevelop3 for KDE4 development, but now from under a KDE4 session. 
:)
Under kdewebdev/quanta you will find the DESIGN and HACKING documents, 
please read them. The README is outdated, refers to KDE3 days...

Shortly, the idea is to build KDevplatform plugins that can be used in 
Quanta and KDevelop. Similarly Quanta can use plugins from the 
kdevplatform module, like the CVS/Subversion plugin, search and replace, 
and even project manager. For Quanta specific functionality we either 
build plugins that require "quantacore" to be loaded, or put the code 
directly to quantacore. In the future it might make sense to make this 
quantacore a language support plugin. I'm sure you don't know what I 
talk about, so here it makes sense to subscribe to the kdevelop 
developer mailing list as well or ask question on the #kdevelop IRC 
channel on irc.kde.org.

The kdewebdev/plugins dir contains some plugins that are disabled (check 
the CMakeLists.txt). This is either because they are not ported 
completely or outdated because we can use something from kdevplatform 
itself.


> and in what areas i have to have kowledge?

Of course C++ and Qt is something that is needed. Subversion (or any 
other version control system) knowledge is also needed, but that one is 
easy to learn, especially if you used something like that in the past.
Aside, you will need to familiarize yourself with the KDE and 
KDevPlatform libraries. For these we are here to help.

Don't hesistate to ask if you are stuck at some point.

Andras