[KDE-India] kde4

[Till Adam]

On Monday 19 December 2005 11:35, Swaroop C H wrote:
> On 12/17/05, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui <safknw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There is many people how want know abt progress of kde4.  where should
> > look for it. Pls also make a section for non-developer people to look
> > changes/improvements/updates in kde.
>
> There are various places you could look:
>
> *     http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-4.0-features.html
> *     http://wiki.kde.org/KDE+4+Goals
> *     (just google "kde 4" for more)

The early stages of KDE4 which we are in now provide a very nice point of 
entry for code contributions, btw. We are currently busy porting kdelibs and 
the various areas of KDE such as kdepim which use it to Qt4. The first round 
of changes could be done by porting scripts, but now we are at a stage were 
the remaining changes need to be done by hand. To give you an example, many 
places in kdepim use the KListView class, which was/is a thin wrapper around 
Qt3's QListView. That can and should now be replaced with Qt4's QTreeWidget, 
but that involves adjusting things to the new API. That's not hard to do, 
even if you don't know Qt, but it's a good way to get familiar with the Qt 
API and it's a great help, since we have many, many places where changes like 
that need to be done, and currently only two or three people are actively 
helping with porting kdepim, for example. And pim is not the only place in 
KDE, there are millions of lines of code that need to be ported. So in case 
you have been wanting to get started with Qt/KDE development, and you don't 
mind doing a bit of gruntwork, in the beginning, then please speak up, I'll 
happily provide you with the knowledge you need to get started. This is not 
the most exciting work in the world, of course, but it's a very real and very 
much appreciated way to help make KDE 4 a reality a lot sooner. And once 
you've become familiar with an area of KDE that you have helped port, you'll 
have a much easier time getting real improvements and funky features in, 
since you know the code, and the people, and the people know you, and you're 
part of the team.

Drop by in #kde-in on irc.kde.org (freenode), if you are interested, or 
mention it here, if a group of people are interested we could do a little 
getting-started session on irc with everyone sometime this week.

Till
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