Status/Maintainer of kdf

[Nicolas Ternisien]

Hi,

Sorry for the delay I took to answer, but for the moment, there is no
new implementation of KDF, even if the code in KInfocenter should be
reused in KDF.

I don't know if Christoph would like to become the new maintainer of
Kdf, but in my personal plan, I will plan some time to improve Kdf in
August. (model/view, convert to plasmoid, and use Solid)

Nicolas

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
<kossebau at kde.org> wrote:
> Hello Christoph,
>
> sorry for the delay, forgot about your email.
>
> Am Samstag, 21. Juni 2008, um 15:40 Uhr, schrieb Christoph Feck:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> before asking my questions, let me introduce myself, because it is my first
>> post to this list :) I am Christoph Feck, commonly nicked as "kdepepo" on
>> #kde, but also known as "skulptor", the author of the KDE 4 Skulpture
>> style.
>>
>> Now that I finally have KDE 4 running from trunk, I would like to start
>> contributing to KDE, as it seems both fun to learn and to code in. I would
>> consider myself a fluent C++/Qt coder (albeit lacking some discipline yet
>> ;)
>>
>> The experience with KDE code is limited to some reading of kdelibs and
>> kdebase, though, so I am looking for a small pet project to get started
>> with KDE.
>>
>> Looking at the current state of applications, I noticed that much love is
>> going into Plasma and other stuff, but older applications like kdf seem to
>> lag a bit behind. Open bugreports on bugs.kde.org for kdf are still tagged
>> as new and unconfirmed, yet some bugs have an interesting number of votes.
>>
>> So I started to browse kdf code. Immediately I thought "hey, it needs a
>> model for its list view, and should use Solid", but going slowly, I looked
>> what could be fixed without a complete overhaul.
>>
>> Judging from the bko entries, there is no maintainer for this application,
>> so my first question is, wether a maintainer for kdf is needed, or if kdf
>> has been canceled in future KDE versions?
>
> Nicolas (I thought to be on this list, but now cc:, perhaps he has already
> answered you off-list?) has done some work on it recently, like joining the
> kdf controlcenter module with another one in kdebase and turning the applet
> into a plasmoid, but after that I have lost track what the state of kdf is.
>
> Nicolas, how much of the code in kdeutils/kdf is still useful? What should be
> in the upcoming release, what can be removed? Are you still focused on kdf or
> could Christoph jump in?
>
>> The second question would be what else I need to know except how to write
>> patches and posting them to bugs.kde.org?
>
> We all never know enough... :)
>
>> Thanks,
>> Christoph
>>
>> (Sorry for being so verbose but I do not like "kthxby" style writing ;)
>
> No problem with me, I like it this way.
>
> Cheers
> Friedrich
>