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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KTop: Request for porting; ready for KDE 1.1
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-01-28 11:42:30
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Chris Schlaeger wrote:
> 
> After several weeks of coding the new KDE Taskmanager KTop is almost
> ready. The new version (0.9.9) is more or less a complete rewrite of
> 0.9.7. The main goal was to make it a lot easier to support different
> platforms and to stabilize the code for future enhancements. All OS
> specific code was moved into the OS... classes. Currently it only
> supports Linux 2.x but it should be easy now to add support for other
> platforms. Since I do not have access to a lot of other platforms KDE
> runs on I need help!
> 
> Please look at the file OSStatus.cpp for instructions how to port the
> code. Most modules are fairly well documented and with some knowledge
> on how to retrieve process information (/proc file system or sysctl())
> the porting shouldn't take too long.
> 
> KTop can be used with KDE 1.x and Qt 1.4x.
> 
> Please mail me patches against the latest version of the CVS. I try not
> to change it much during the next week or so. And please do not change
> any other files but the OS*.(cpp|h) files unless you really have
> to. New features won't be added before version 1.0.0!
> 
> So in a few days KTop will be stable again. Is there still a chance to
> include it in KDE 1.1?
> 
Dream on :)

Into KDE 1.1 will only go bugfixes.

Greetings, Stephan

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