[Panel-devel] Helping Out

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday 16 July 2005 07:31, Colin Thomsen wrote:
> - Are most developers using Kdevelop?

i don't think so.. i use kwrite and/or vim myself.

> Are there any project files available?

not that i know of.

> - How do you test your changes? I tried running kate from the 
> installed KDEbase and it mainly worked, aside from some serious font
> issues, but how do most developers test run their code?

when it comes to kicker i usually do: `dcopquit kicker; sleep 1; kicker` from 
a konsole ... then i usually test my changes by directly interacting with 
kicker ... 

the biggest pain is remembering that layout and painting code often needs to 
be checked with horizontal and vertical panels, transparency and sometimes 
RTL (kicker -reverse) ... 

> - What can I help out with?

well, right now the entry level jobs mostly surround getting Q3* classes out 
of the applets...

the following applets have Q3 compat classes still in use:

	- run
	- media
	- lockout
	- systemtray
	- minipager

feel free to pick one or more of those and remove the Q3* classes and replace 
them with their Qt4 equvalents. #kde4-devel can be a useful place to ask 
questions, or failing that #kde-devel ... or, of course, here.

i need to spend some time this weekend putting together some documentation on 
"what's next" since this is where things are going to start diverge from Old 
Kicker pretty radically and it seems we have so many people helping that 
we're going to need to be able to divvy tasks up.

wow. who would've thought i'd be able to say that a year ago? =)))

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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