From kde-devel  Wed Feb 07 14:20:15 2001
From: Alessandro Praduroux <pradu () thekompany ! com>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 14:20:15 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: New to KDE devel.
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On Wednesday 07 February 2001 14:07, broucho@club-internet.fr wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> here is my first message on the kde-devel mailing list and I hope there're
> will be others more helpfull for you than this one where I'm just begging
> for some advice ! The reason I'm here is because I attended the KDE
> conferences at the Linux expo in Paris. They were 2 conferences : one from
> David Faure and another one from Gerard Delafond (who presented the
> translation project). I found them both well done and was actually
> impressed by the good organisation of this project. It was really
> interesting to talk to the KDE people. I finally decided I could somehow
> contribute since I like C/C++ programing.
>
> I need to get into it first before I can help in any manner :
> I downloaded the sources of kde2.1 beta 2 and try to install it on a suse
> 7.0.
>
> My first question is :
> is there a way to install it in a different directory than /opt/kde ? I had
> already the kde1.x installed with suse7.0 and it makes kind of a mess with
> the "make install" which puts every in /opt/kde also. I wrote a script to
> change all /opt/kde of all Makefiles but I guess there's more to it since
> it doesn't do a great job.
>
try using ./configure --prefix=/your/kde2/path

> Second question :
> I then removed my suse packages of kde and install the kde2.1B2. It works
> fine beside the fact that my kdm is kinda sick (not well configured). I
> edited the kdmrc but it doesn't take it into account. Is this config file
> still valid for this version ?
>
> Third question :
> I had never used automake and autoconf before. It's not clear to me where
> this acinclude.m4 comes from ! It's in every AC_INT so I guess this file is
> generic for all KDE application ? Am I right ? The reason I'm wondering
> that is because I started writing small application to get some practice w/
> KDE API and I don't want to use Kdevelop. But hold on ... don't understant
> me wrong, Kdevelop is for sure a great tool but I'd rather keep using my
> good old Xemacs w/ Makefiles which allows me to understand better the way
> things work. Is there somewhere a template since all applications seems to
> be based on automake and autoconf.
>

Get kdesdk from CVS, there is a nice script that just build a new app 
skeleton. It's called kapptemplate

> I guess that's it for now. I go back to my KDE config and programing ;-).
> It would save me precious time though if someone was willing to give me a
> hand. If these questions are too basic for this mailing list : don't
> hesitate to let me know. Since I'm starting with KDE programming, there
> might be other mailing list for that ?
>
I think you're on the right mailing list for questions about kde programming.

> Thanks a lot
>
>
> Bruno
>
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