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Subject:    [kc-kde] kde-traffic issue #54
From:       Russell Miller <rmiller () duskglow ! com>
Date:       2003-06-09 18:32:51
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KDE Traffic #54 For 8 Jun 


Editor: Russell Miller 


By Russell Miller ,  Juergen Appel 


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Introduction
Mailing List Stats For This Week
Threads Covered

1.
25 Jun  - 30 Jun 
(6 posts)
(semi-ot) I'm back, married, and with pictures of penguines


2.
28 May  - 29 May 
(10 posts)
Reusing KOffice's Code


3.
25 May  - 28 May 
(12 posts)
New KWord Startup Dialog


Introduction

 

Very little interesting this week. There's a thread that shows some promise, 
but as with the kde3.2 thread, it's also very active. I'll cover that when it 
quiets down. 


Juergen has suggested going to biweekly. This probably means that there will 
be more per issue, but fewer issues. Any arguments one way or another? 


I'd also like to thank Ingo Klöcker. I now have the xml encoding for the third 
character in his name memorized. 


I have nothing more to say. 


Mailing List Stats For This Week

 

We looked at 541 posts in 2173K.

 

There were 222 different contributors. 103 posted more than once. 66 posted 
last week too. 


The top posters of the week were:

 
18 posts in 76K by Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?=
 
17 posts in 59K by Tobias Koenig
 
16 posts in 42K by Ingo "Klöcker"
 
13 posts in 48K by Waldo Bastian
 
11 posts in 48K by Dirk Mueller
 
Full Stats
 

 

 

1. (semi-ot) I'm back, married, and with pictures of penguines
25 Jun  - 30 Jun  (6 posts) Archive Link: "(semi-ot) I'm back, married, and 
with pictures of penguines"
Summary By Russell Miller
 People: Ellis Whitehead

 

For those who like to watch a life spiral downhill, Ellis Whitehead said: 


Just wanted to announce that I'm back. I have a couple links, too. A few 
photos from the wedding:
 http://www.msu.edu/~whiteh12/wedding/wedding.html 


A little KDE tribute from the honey-moon:
 http://www.msu.edu/~whiteh12/penguin/penguin.html 


All respondents welcomed him back. One threatened to take away his geek card. 


 

 

2. Reusing KOffice's Code
28 May  - 29 May  (10 posts) Archive Link: "Using the KOffice API's in new 
projects"
Summary By Juergen Appel
 Topics: KOffice
 People: Jeff McLean, Dirk Schoeneberger, David Faure

 

Jeff McLean wanted to start a drawing application on his own, using KOffice 
API. Therefore he had a few questions: 


The developer APIs (the includes) are not installed on machines just because 
KOffice is installed. Is it possible to install the includes so that I could 
use the APIs the same way I'd use the KDE APIs? 
Using the KOffice APIs would make my project a KOffice thing, I guess, is that 
allowed? or do you need permission or something??? 
I wouldn't want to make users have to install the KOffice includes just so 
that they can compile my application. 
I welcome all discussion of this, cause I don't even really know how exactly 
to ask... I just want to re-use some code that was very well done for 
KOffice, withought any cutting and pasting. Confused, Jeff 

Dirk Schoeneberger's reply was quite interesting:

 

there are currently discussions to make Karbon more re-useable and to use it 
in other software projects. This includes makeing it KOffice independent. 


David Faure focussed his reply on each question, saying:

 

[ed. note: on question 1]
 kostore, kofficecore, kofficeui and a few others (kformula, kwmf etc.) are 
installed. Which libs are you talking about? 
[ed. note: on question 2]
 Nope, all the libs are LGPL, you can use them to base your application upon, 
no problem there ("need permission"... did you mean this the other way 
round?) 
[ed. note: on question 3]
 You can't have it all - if your app is a koffice component, they'll need 
koffice-devel... 

Jeff wasn't aware that there is such a thing called koffice-devel-package, but 
pretty content to find out.
 


(ed. [Juergen Appel] Best wishes from the KC-KDE, Jeff.)

 

 

 

3. New KWord Startup Dialog
25 May  - 28 May  (12 posts) Archive Link: "Observations on the new KWord 
startup dialog"
Summary By Juergen Appel
 Topics: KOffice, Usability

 

The KOffice applications are getting a new startup dialog. The new design 
proposal can be previewed here: screeny one, screeny two, screeny three. 


Though it looks nice, it is likely not yet in it's prime-time shape. Several 
usability aspects have been discussed, such as icon size, additional tabs for 
different directories etc. 

-- 
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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be 
devoured. -- Konrad Adenauer

Russell Miller - rmiller@duskglow.com - Somewhere near Sioux City, IA.

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