Looking to contribute - Porting appmenu to QMenuModel

[David Edmundson]

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Matija Čupić <matt at cmattrex.com> wrote:

> Heya everyone,
>
> I'm looking to contribute to KDE. I'm not new to programming (just new to
> Qt, KDE), and not asking for handholding, but if someone could strap me up
> with info on how to start, how would I test my additions/fixes, and what's
> the procedure for submitting updates, that would be awesome.
>
> Specifically, I want to port the appmenu to QMenuModel (since I really
> want that, and it really bugs me it's not implemented yet). If there's
> someone that's familiar with its implementation and has some rough ideas
> what needs to be done, it would be really cool if he could get me up to
> speed.
>
>
QMenuModel is a wrapper round GTK's menu exporting.
We can't "port" appmenu to that as then we'd only support GTK apps.

and we don't really want to get rid of our appmenu that actually follows a
specification as that will be available to Qt apps again very soon.
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