claus wilke wrote:
> Btw, has anybody ever thought about compiling a developer faq in which such
> kind of questions would be answered?

Sure, people think of it all the time.  And David Sweet actually wrote
a pretty nice developer's mini-HOWTO (on developer.kde.org)... but
FAQs and the like are notoriously difficult to keep up to date.
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