KDevelop Mega Poll (WAS: Qt Designer plugin)

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:11 AM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 October 2011 14:11:42 Mark Knecht wrote:
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>>
>> Hi Milian,
>>    You can be assured that I would _never_ say 'this sucks' about the
>> program. It's neither true about the program nor fair to the
>> programmers!
>
> Haha, nah, that was me paraphrasing ;-) I've seen many bug reports which did
> not literarily say "this sucks" but put it into nice words without actually
> giving more input. I just wanted to be consise here ;-)
>
>>    The most I'd say (if I was to say anything at all) would be about
>> how things could be made easier for both new programmers like me as
>> well as people programming in not so standard languages or hardware
>> models. That might not even mean a change for the program itself but
>> rather some sort of infrastructure around the program.
>>
>>    As an example, my interest is learning how to program for the
>> Nvidia CUDA architecture. I've looked at it a bit over the last year,
>> and bought a book with examples that work if I do it all by hand in a
>> bunch of text files, but when I tried to figure out how to doi it in
>> any of the easily available IDE's available on Gentoo I ran into so
>> many questions I didn't know where to go and gave up. (And didn't
>> really want to bother people here about that if they weren't
>> interested.)
>
> But how can we as KDevelop programmers help here? We'd need someone with
> knowledge about CUDA and the same goes for many/most other toolkits,
> frameworks & languages out there!
>

I don't know. I just raised the issue as an example. I suspect that
if, for example, you had nothing to say about CUDA then you'd remain
silent. Maybe someone else would speak up, or maybe I'd show code
examples of what makes CUDA different and then Kdevelop programmers
would either choose to do something to enhance it or not. If no one
speaks up then it's not of interest to the group at large and the
focus doesn't go there.

I certainly don't think that just because I, a non-programmer,
suggests something be looked at means that it's going to get in, much
less even get attention. It's just a suggestion or interest of mine.

>>    Anyway, that's the sort of thing I was thinking about when I popped
>> up with my first question.
>
> Sure, I can see how this is useful for you. But take into account that this
> poll - if it was to be conducted - should give use usable results. I.e. stuff
> we the current KDev hackers could work on. I.e.: These ideas should be
> generic, and concentrate on improving existing features...
>

Well, from my perspective, limiting the poll to improving existing
features puts quite a limit on the scope of the poll but it might be
the right thing to do.

- Mark