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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: helping with kde4
From:       "Gary L. Greene, Jr." <greeneg () tolharadys ! net>
Date:       2007-01-13 18:58:13
Message-ID: 200701131358.16099.greeneg () tolharadys ! net
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On Saturday 13 January 2007 13:42, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Saturday 13 January 2007 10:13, Mike Williams wrote:
> > Is there a list of KDE4 junior jobs? Or something else for someone who
> > isn't really involved yet? I'm having a hard time seeing where I could
> > actually help, without becoming a full time KDE coder.
>
> there are lots of things that can be done; it usually comes down to finding
> an itch to scratch. the easiest things to get into that don't require huge
> amounts of time commitment are the smaller apps or specific feature sets of
> larger ones.
>
> one example is kscd. the UI is better than it was 3 years ago but quite
> honestly is very 1998 in its approach and could probably do with a complete
> do-over. the cd playing bits are hidden away in libwm (wm = workman) so
> that's ready to be re-used. but nobody is working on a new UI, and it's
> something a person could peck away at an hour here, an hour there. having a
> nice new lightweight CD player interface (which is what kscd is meant to
> be) for kde4 would be nice.
>
> there are several other such opportunities around the kde codebase. what
> sort of things grab your interest?

Also with KSCD, it's eject and media detection mechanisms need ported to 
HAL/udev. Having it poll the drive every few seconds is a pain in the rear 
side.

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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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