Re: Quanta Developement

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 14:00, Peter Morgan <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I'm a bit confused now.. Sorry for muppet questions but I seem to
> be going around in circles (eg quanta website is confusing).. or am
> probably stupid ;-)
yeah, the quanta website is horrible out of date.

> effectively kdevelop is where the action is happening, and this stuff
> is being used by quanta4 which is not working?
kdevplatform is a common base for kdevelop4 and quanta4. That means
every kdevelop plugin
works in quanta and vice versa. Basically quanta/kdevelop is just a
set of default plugins with a
different splash screen.

> Also does this mean I will need to download the "whole" =A0kde dev
> enviroment to compile quanta ?
Atm I would recommand to use kdevelop. See this page:
http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/index.php/KDevelop_4/compiling

> As far as an editor interface, I love kate, and would love to
> implement the "search and replace" which is a pane that pops up
> instead of a dialog, similar to Ctrl+F in firefox.
That is already implemented for kde4 in katepart :D

> is there a #quanta irc channel
very quiet there, join us on #kdevelop

Niko