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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: helping with kde4
From:       Mike Williams <mike () mikebwilliams ! com>
Date:       2007-01-22 23:26:28
Message-ID: 200701221826.28832.mike () mikebwilliams ! com
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Does Phonon handle audio CD's? i.e, is Phonon something I should port kscd to? 
Also, as for the drive polling, that sounds like something Solid should 
handle, however, I can't seem to find any real API documentation.

Mike


On Saturday 13 January 2007 01:54, you wrote:
> kscd sounds like a good start. I've just finished learning C++, and that
> program sounds like it would be small enough to be manageable for a Qt/KDE
> beginner.
>
> Mike
>
> On Saturday 13 January 2007 01:42, 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?
 
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