[kde-doc-english] [kwave] doc/en: updated handbook to reflect the port to Qt5/KF5 and partial migration from SourceForge to KDE servers

Thomas Eschenbacher Thomas.Eschenbacher at gmx.de
Thu Jan 28 18:57:48 UTC 2016


Git commit 12c0a73a5474b50ba7f2ee5e1a3bbfc3ddce90c2 by Thomas Eschenbacher.
Committed on 28/01/2016 at 18:57.
Pushed by eschenbacher into branch 'master'.

updated handbook to reflect the port to Qt5/KF5 and partial migration from SourceForge to KDE servers

M  +34   -27   doc/en/index.docbook

http://commits.kde.org/kwave/12c0a73a5474b50ba7f2ee5e1a3bbfc3ddce90c2

diff --git a/doc/en/index.docbook b/doc/en/index.docbook
index a9d0348..9c350fa 100644
--- a/doc/en/index.docbook
+++ b/doc/en/index.docbook
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
   <!ENTITY url_flac "http://flac.sourceforge.net/">
   <!ENTITY url_homepage "http://kwave.sourceforge.net/">
   <!ENTITY url_id3lib "http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/">
+  <!ENTITY url_kde_project "http://projects.kde.org/projects/kdereview/kwave">
   <!ENTITY url_lame "http://lame.sourceforge.net/">
   <!ENTITY url_levelmeter "https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rikkus.info/esound-level-meter/">
   <!ENTITY url_libaudiofile "http://www.68k.org/~michael/audiofile/">
@@ -29,8 +30,8 @@
   <!ENTITY url_rfc2361 "http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2361.txt">
   <!ENTITY url_sourceforge "http://sourceforge.net">
   <!ENTITY url_sox "http://sox.sourceforge.net/">
-  <!ENTITY url_git_instructions "http://sourceforge.net/p/kwave/code/">
-  <!ENTITY url_git_web "http://sourceforge.net/p/kwave/code/commit_browser">
+  <!ENTITY url_git_web_kde "http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kwave.git">
+  <!ENTITY url_git_web_sf "http://sourceforge.net/p/kwave/code/commit_browser">
   <!ENTITY url_git_list_tags "http://sourceforge.net/p/kwave/code/ref/master~/tags/">
   <!ENTITY url_git_master "git://git.code.sf.net/p/kwave/code">
   <!ENTITY i18n-cmd_syntax "Syntax: ">
@@ -347,7 +348,7 @@
 <chapter id="introduction"><title>Introduction</title>
 
     <para>
-    	This is "&kwave;", a simple sound editor for KDE-4.
+    	This is "&kwave;", a simple sound editor for KDE Frameworks 5.
 	Its features include:
 	<itemizedlist>
     	<listitem><para>
@@ -372,16 +373,16 @@
 	    Recording functionality, including pre-recording
 	</para></listitem>
     	<listitem><para>
-	    Playback via ALSA and OSS
+	    Playback via Qt, PulseAudio, ALSA and OSS
 	</para></listitem>
     	<listitem><para>
-	    Recording via ALSA and OSS
+	    Recording via PulseAudio, ALSA and OSS
 	</para></listitem>
     	<listitem><para>
 	    MP3 import/export
 	</para></listitem>
     	<listitem><para>
-	    Ogg/Vorbis import/export
+	    Ogg/Vorbis and Opus import/export
 	</para></listitem>
     	<listitem><para>
 	    FLAC import/export
@@ -400,7 +401,7 @@
 	</para></listitem>
     	<listitem><para>
 	    playback of multi channel audio files (audio output will be
-	    mixed down to mono or stereo)
+	    mixed down to mono or stereo if needed)
 	</para></listitem>
 	<listitem><para>
 	    extendible through an easy-to-use plugin interface
@@ -450,15 +451,15 @@
 	    GIT Repository<anchor id="git-repository"/>
 	</para>
 	<para>
-	    There also is a GIT repository, hosted by
+	    There also is a new GIT repository hosted on KDE servers, and a
+	    mirror repository hosted by
 	    <ulink url="&url_sourceforge;">SourceForge</ulink> where
 	    you can get the sources of the latest development version.
 	    For instructions on how to get access to the repository, read
 	    in the chapter about
-	    <link linkend="building_rpm_from_git">building from GIT</link>,
-	    or look at
-	    <ulink url="&url_git_instructions;">"&url_git_instructions;"</ulink>.
-	    There also is a nice <ulink url="&url_git_web;">web interface</ulink>
+	    <link linkend="building_rpm_from_git">building from GIT</link>.
+	    There also is a GIT web interface on <ulink url="&url_git_web_kde;">KDE</ulink>
+	    and on <ulink url="&url_git_web_sf;">SourceForge</ulink> where
 	    you can use to browse through the sources.
         </para></listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
@@ -488,7 +489,13 @@
 	you can find the full history here:
 	<ulink url="&url_changelog;"> &url_changelog;</ulink> or browse
 	through the sources on your own through the
-	<ulink url="&url_git_web;">GIT web interface</ulink>.
+	<ulink url="&url_git_web_kde;">GIT web interface</ulink>.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+	&kwave; version v0.9.0 is the first version hosted on KDE (kdereview)
+	and SourceForge servers, followed by v0.9.1, the first version for
+	KDE Frameworks 5.
     </para>
 
     <!-- changelog cut out, this gives a smaller online help
@@ -516,6 +523,11 @@
 	information about current stable and up-to-date development
 	versions.
     </para>
+    <para>
+	There also is a KDE project page
+	at <ulink url="&url_kde_project;">&url_kde_project;</ulink> which
+	is mostly interesting for developers.
+    </para>
 
     <para>
 	If you want to get a &kwave; release, you have the choice to visit
@@ -540,8 +552,8 @@
 
     <para>
 	Don't be afraid, compiling Kwave should be quite simple even if
-	you are not a programmer. It just needs some developer packages
-	to be installed.
+	you are not a software developer. It just needs some developer
+	packages to be installed and some time.
     </para>
 
     </sect1>
@@ -567,12 +579,12 @@
 		<emphasis>hear</emphasis> the result of your work?)
 	    </para></listitem>
 	    <listitem><para>
-		KDE-4.5 or higher (at least the libraries, if you are
-		a gnome fan, you can also run &kwave; if the proper
-		libs are installed).
+		KDE Frameworks 5.2 (KF5) or higher (at least the libraries,
+		if you are using a different desktop, you can also run &kwave;
+		if the proper libraries are installed).
 	    </para></listitem>
 	    <listitem><para>
-		Qt-4.7 or higher (normally comes with KDE4)
+		Qt-5.4 or higher (normally comes as a dependency of KF5)
 	    </para></listitem>
 	    <listitem><para>
 		ALSA 1.0.14 or higher (for record/playback)
@@ -607,11 +619,11 @@
     	If you intend to compile &kwave; from the sources, you will need at least:
 	<itemizedlist>
 	    <listitem><para>
-		<ulink url="&url_cmake;">cmake</ulink>-2.6.0 or newer
+		<ulink url="&url_cmake;">cmake</ulink>-2.8.12 or newer
 	    </para></listitem>
 	    <listitem><para>
 		A recent C/C++ compiler. GCC-4.x works fine, some older and any
-		newer version (like gcc-5.0) may work too.
+		newer version (like gcc-5.0) should work too.
 	    </para></listitem>
 	    <listitem><para>
 		The glibc2 (libc-6) development environment. On SuSE systems
@@ -619,12 +631,7 @@
 		called "libc-devel".
 	    </para></listitem>
 	    <listitem><para>
-		The KDE4 development environment: "kdelibs4-devel",
-		"kdemultimedia4-devel", "kdesdk4".
-	    </para></listitem>
-	    <listitem><para>
-		The Qt4 development environment,
-		the package is normally called "qt4-devel" or similar.
+		Qt5 and KF5 development packages
 	    </para></listitem>
 	    <listitem><para>
 		pulseaudio-0.9.16 or newer


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