Quicklaunch: Getting started with contributing...

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 08 March 2010, Ingomar Wesp wrote:
> Hello, there.
> 
> I'd like to get involved with plasma development, but I'm still a bit

welcome aboard :)

> unsure about a few details regarding the process of submitting patches.
> Since the quicklaunch applet still suffers from a number of issues and is
> pretty easy to understand, I thought it might be the right target for my
> first steps in KDE source land...
> 
> Specifically, I created a patch that (hopefully ;) fixes bugs #200798 [1]
> and #225011 [2]. I also felt the urge to fix some indentation / trailing
> whitespace  issues. Now I'm not quite sure whether I should post patches
> on reviewboard for the individual issues separately or in one big patch
> that addresses all the issues but might be harder to read / review.

depends from the sze of the patches and how much they're interconnected, maybe 
post one for each issue...

> Also, what's the best way for proposing future changes (like changing the
> flow of icons to match the one used in the task bar). Should I file a bug
> report or would it be better to discuss such things here at the mailing
> list?

mailinglist and irc on #plasma are always good places

Cheers,
Marco Martin