Hey all,<br><br>I've just joined this list and am responding to Stefan Majewsky's <a href="http://majewsky.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/junior-job-kgamerenderer-porting/">blog posting</a> (seen on Planet KDE) about a "junior job" involving porting games to use KGameRenderer etc. I have wanted to start making code contributions to some open source desktop project for a while, and am now just finishing up with an unrelated GSoC project which has whetted my appetite to write more code. When I saw this blog post it seemed like a nice opportunity to jump in and do something useful while learning.<br>
<br>I have been coding with C++ for a long time and consider myself proficient with the language, but have no experience to speak of with Qt. I'd like to learn! I would appreciate pointers about getting a development environment set up. How much of the KDE source tree will I need to check out in order to build the KDE games? My development system is currently running Ubuntu 10.04; can I use the Qt development packages from the repos (4.6.2) or do I need something more recent? I don't have any KDE packages installed on here currently but I would still like to keep development stuff self-contained, i.e. not installed into /usr and such. How difficult is that going to be?<br>
<br>If someone could provide a synopsis of what the new KGameRenderer class(es?) is/are for and the reasons for the porting, that would be helpful as well. :)<br><br>I'm looking forward to working with you!<br><br>--Brian Croom<br>