<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Mike Arthur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@mikearthur.co.uk">mike@mikearthur.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2009/7/10 Chris Morgan <<a href="mailto:chris.morganiser@gmail.com">chris.morganiser@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> How much interest is there for this? I think that the best way it's going<br>
> to work is having your developers doing the work; I can advise and be a<br>
> general consultant, but the best way to do it is all in Qt, integrated into<br>
> the KDE for Windows project, and I can't really help with the actual coding.<br>
> If you like, I could provide a mockup of how I think it should be with the<br>
> Qt Designer and send that round.<br>
<br>
</div>Without being rude, in that case it won't get done unless one of the<br>
developers wants to do so. To have a truly portable KDE application<br>
which requires no dependencies will be non-trivial as you'd need to<br>
also bundle things like DBUS.</blockquote><div>Saro Engels is interested in it, and another of the developers (can't remember his name). I'm not aware of any extra dependencies for KDE which are needed.</div><div>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I'm working on some CPack-based installers which might help with some<br>
of the dependency issues but it'll be a while off before that is<br>
useful. It might just be a matter of the CPack-based installer plus<br>
setting KDEHOME to the USB disk.</blockquote><div>I don't think that'll be needed; see my original post for the suggestions that I've made. While I think I could swing it on my own, the best solution is one more integrated with the KDE for Windows package; Saro has agreed with me - they'd like to have KDE for Windows support making a portable version itself. While not the way it normally goes with PortableApps.com, it's by far the best way.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">If you really want this done I'd strongly consider doing the coding<br>
yourself. It shouldn't be too hard to do, codewise, and it would be a<br>
nice project to learn on. I haven't really heard of any KDE projects<br>
before working when someone acts as a consultant and people just write<br>
the code for him (unless they have been paid).</blockquote><div>Consultant is just the best term I could find for it... really what I mean is just that I'm experienced in things portable, techniques of making portable applications, etc. but not much use (yet) in Qt programming. I'm willing to do what I can, but that's likely to be limited to prototyping UIs and simple things. I can easily enough make an AutoHotkey program launcher, and probably fudge together a way of swapping from using the start menu to writing something this launcher could use, but Qt is going to fit in more.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Interesting project though, good luck with it.</blockquote><div>Thanks :-)</div></div><br clear="all"><br>
Regards,<br><br>Chris Morgan <<a href="mailto:chris.morganiser@gmail.com">chris.morganiser@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>I don't need a quote in my signature. It's hard enough surviving as it is without having to find a meaningful quote. Will you forgive me? Or don't you read this bit?<br>