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List:       kpovmodeler-devel
Subject:    Re: Reactivating developers, KDE4 porting status
From:       Leon Pennington <leon () leonscape ! co ! uk>
Date:       2006-06-05 20:04:38
Message-ID: 200606052104.38745.leon () leonscape ! co ! uk
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Hi,
	I'm compiling KDE4 as I type. I think KDE4 is the kick I need to get back 
into this. I think I've got some outstanding bugs to kill as well.

On Monday 05 June 2006 18:33, Andreas Zehender wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Luis and Leon, I know that you are still reading this list ;-)
> and Michael of course.
>
> The kdelibs4 is in a quite good shape, and so is KPovModeler. I already
> did the main porting job, KPovModeler compiles and runs stable with the
> current kde4 and there are some core programmers that keep KPovModeler
> compiling when the kde4 API changes. Therefore: It's a goot time now to
> test the new kde4 libs, KPovModeler ... and .... help porting ;-)
>
> Two HOWTOs for compiling kde4:
> http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE3To4
> http://edu.kde.org/development/port2kde4.php
>
> I have here a vmware machine where my kde4 runs. kdebase is far away
> from being usable, so I compile and install only kdelibs and use fvwm as
> windowmanager.
>
> What needs to be done?
> As first porting step all deprecated Q3* classes have to be replaced
> with new Qt4 classes.
> Mainly (numbers are number of occurrences):
> Q3PtrList* 300
> Q3ListBox* 65
> Q3ListView* 58
> Q3GroupBox* 24
> Q3Dict* 16
> Q3TextEdit* 11
> Q3PtrDict* 8
> Q3MemArray* 7
> Q3ScrollView* 5
> Q3VBox* 3
> Q3Cache* 3
>
> I already replaced quite a number of Q3PtrList<class> with
> QList<class*>, so that's my part. But any help is welcome for the other
> classes.
>
> Second step is to replace all other deprecated methods with their
> corresponding new ones.
> Third step is to port against the new kde4 API. There are a number of
> deprecated methods in kde4, but that step should be the last as kdelibs4
> is still moving.
>
> Now the question:
> Can you spend some time to help me porting and which part do you want to
> port?
>
> Regards,
> Andreas
>
>
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-- 
Leon Pennington

"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you 
teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime." 


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