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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Kaim project: developers wanted.
From:       Chris Lee <nytehorse () inficad ! com>
Date:       2000-04-07 21:41:36
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Benjamin Meyer wrote:

>     Hello there.  About a month ago I started working on an AOL client
> for KDE.  I was tired of having to put up with the choices out there.  I
> dubbed it Kaim.  surprise surprise.  I worked quite hard and long on
> it.  I have made much progress.  It is functional now.  I can im people,
> view on-line, save settings etc.  Some highlights include name alias,
> name editing in window, away button, and ridding of that tab on the
> top.  I plan on adding Crypto and more before I am done.  There is much
> left to be done.  I am going to move to CA next week to work full time
> on another Linux multimedia project and will be unable to finish this in
> the time that I wanted to.  Thus I am asking for some help.  It
> currently is written for QT 1.4x and kde 1.2, but I plan on changing
> that to QT 2.0 at least.  I have already redone all of the graphics in
> the entire application.  I was hoping to have my first release to the
> community be version 1.0, but my new job prevents that.  Even thought I
> can not work on it full time anymore I would like to still finish this
> project.  And so that is why I am writing here.  I am looking for
> several people to help out with this project.
>
> ToDo (that I would like help with)
>     Chat window class
>         Make fully functional, add all the silly little things that need
> to be there.
>
> For someone looking for a challenge (I inherited this class from another
> group):
>     The network class
>         Finish implementing stuff like info etc.
>
> I myself will continue working on the main window and getting that
> finished.  There are a number of smaller things that still have to be
> done besides the two listed.  I have them listed in the todo file in the
> source  Hopefully I will spark someone's interest to help out.  I have
> tried to keep my code clean though out the project and I am delivering a
> functional project, though not finished, it is not vaporware or worse
> just an idea.
>
> I have two screen shots and the source up on this web site.  The screen
> shorts barley show what is done.
> (note that the kaim.gif is a bit old and kaim2.gif is newer)
> http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/benjamin/works/kaim/

Hey, I'm all for it; I'll be taking a look at the source tonight. Looking
good from the shots! : )

(And just the other day I was thinking about how much I hated gAIM... : )

-Chris

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