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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: Kopete hacking
From:       Raphael Kubo da Costa <kubito () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-07-21 19:18:47
Message-ID: 201007211618.47515.kubito () gmail ! com
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On Wednesday 21 July 2010 16:10:27 dantti85-dev@yahoo.com.br wrote:
> hi list,
> I and a friend we use/like kopete, but
> at the same time we kind of hate it,
> it works well but the user interface
> is really bad from our pov.
> 
> We have several ideas to make it better
> but we believe not everyone will like
> it, we started a fork in gitorious named KIM
> to get an idea of the code and how hard would
> it be, after talking with boiko I decided to
> post here since I'd like not to fork, I'm
> involved in too many projects already.
> 
> As the project seems to be a bit dead
> (not many commits in svn) I tought
> that not too many people would complain about
> some changes in the ui (if you want to have
> an idea get the gitorious code, it's far
> from done but it'll give you an idea).
> 
> I'd like to hear from you if I can start
> hacking directly on trunk or you want
> kopete the way it's.
> Another idea would be having a kopete 2
> like amarok 2 that is very different from
> 1.4.
> My friend is skilled in java but I'm helping
> him to do qt stuff in cpp, he is removing
> compiling warnings from the code.
> 
> Also as I don't have much time the changes
> won't happen so fast which is one of the
> reasons a kopete 2 would be good.

Committing directly to trunk probably means you'll already have a completely 
functional new UI for everything for the SC 4.6 release.

It'd be nice if you could post some screenshots of the main changes you intend 
to make. Posting review requests via ReviewBoard would also be good.
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