Help your marketing team!

[Vishesh Handa]

On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:10 AM, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 25 September 2012 19:16:43 Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We need your help to do better at engaging the world-wide Qt developer
> > community. Please answer this question:
> >
> > "what classes and components in KDELibs/Frameworks 5 do you think are
> most
> > interesting for external Qt developers and why?"
> >
>
> I think the best example is the KArchive frameworks, since Qt developers
> have
> been missing ZIP support in Qt (and other archive formats), as well as
> single-
> file gzip/bzip2/xz compression.
>
> Then there's sonnet, a complete spellchecking framework (core and widgets).
>
> Solid, for hardware detection (http://solid.kde.org iirc)
>
> Threadweaver, for giving out jobs to threads with support for job
> dependencies
> (which is not available in QThreadPool).
>
> KIdleTime, detecting when the user is not using the computer
> (cross-platform)
>
> KConfig, a non-deprecated configuration framework :-)
>  (with better API and more features than the almost-deprecated QSettings)
>
> Many addons for the model/view framework (currently called "itemmodels",
> maybe
> that's a bit too generic though).
>
> KIO, a "VFS" implementation based on Qt.
>
> KCoreAddons, for
> * a job 'framework' for asynchronous tasks
> * random numbers / random strings / random ordering in lists
> * auto-saving, backups
> * file locking (which I plan to try and move to Qt for 5.1)
>
> A large number of additional widgets (capacity bar, led, ruler, selector,
> separator, x/y selector, ... a lot more coming)
>
> XMLGUI, for user-configurable desktop GUIs (menus/toolbars/shortcuts).
>
> And a lot more....
>

There is also kdelibs/dnssd, which is a pretty good Qt wrapper for dns
service discovery (read Avahi).


>
> > Please add explanations and links to documentation where possible.
>
> Not sure you want links to the code... but right now there isn't much more
> (like per-framework web space and general information...)
>
> --
> David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
> Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5
>



-- 
Vishesh Handa
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