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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: How do I start?
From:       Chris Howells <chris () chrishowells ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-03-20 9:09:52
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Hi,

On Wednesday 20 March 2002 3:06 am, Chris Machemer wrote:
> I'd love to help out in what little spare time I may have.  I know I could
> scan the bug lists, and try to knock out a few, but more so than that, is
> there any overall koffice design documentation anywhere that would help me
> understand the big picture?  Any diagrams that show how the office apps
> build on the core?

http://www.koffice.org/developer might come in handy. There's useful API 
documentation stuff there.

> I also want to understand this because I'm hoping to eventually have more
> free time, and possibly work on katabase.  I really think the absence of a
> desktop database is a serious shortcoming of koffice, at least where it
> comes to getting the interest of small businesses.

Cool. Well, I don't know whether any useful code was actually written for 
Katabase. IIRC there's now a SQL ioslave, so maybe that would come in handy.

> I remember in the past that theKompany had taken over all or part of the
> katabase effort.  Is that still going on?

Katabase was abandoned, and theKompany started work on ReKall, which is not 
part of KOffice.

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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