[Panel-devel] Panel-devel Digest, Vol 23, Issue 6

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hey =) 

On March 7, 2007, tek_notes at bellsouth.net wrote:
> What would be the best way for me to get involved with programming for KDE
> 4?

well .. first, i assume you have a working kde4 build? if not, first step is 
here:

	http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started

if you've accomplished that, then the next step is to decide what to hack on. 
and that largely depends on your personal interests. right now, we've already 
a good number of feet trampling around the krunner/plasma code for the 
moment, i think, but there is a TON of stuff to be done around kde.

you can look here for krunner tasks if you are interested:

	http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Tasks

otherwise, i'd recommend getting started small: patches for specific 
functionality improvements or API cleanups. e.g. there are a lot of places 
where KConfig::readEntry and ::writeEntry uses need to be changed to use 
KConfigGroup. you can see this as the warnings go skittering past while 
building the source. someone is working on kdebase (got the first patches 
from them today =), but the other modules are open for this task AFAIK.

or you could look for classes in kdelibs (e.g. kurl; or in kio/) that have 
inline methods in public interfaces and move those into the implementation.

or you could pick a small app that appeals to you in one of the modules, start 
it up and see what's broken. if nothing (heh!) then head on over to 
bugs.kde.org and see what bugs/feature requests are lodged there...

but it really all comes down to you: what are your interests? what are your 
itches?

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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