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List:       quanta
Subject:    [Quanta] Preliminary FAQ
From:       Andras Mantia <amantia () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-02-22 12:30:37
Message-ID: 200502221430.37679.amantia () kde ! org
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Hi,

 I wrote a FAQ with some issues that came into my mind that could be 
interesting. If you have other issues, let me know. Werner, also the 
description about how to set up Gubed could be included here. It would 
be nice to have all this information available from a central place 
(kdewebdev.org).

I didn't even run a spellcheck on it, so don't laugh at the style and 
wording. It's only a base for the FAQ.

Andras

-- 
Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.sourceforge.net
K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org

["faq.txt" (text/plain)]

FAQ:

Q. What is the difference between Quanta Plus and Quanta Gold?
A: Quanta Gold is a commercial product developed at the Kompany by the original \
authors of the Quanta Plus. They abandoned the GPL'd version of Quanta Plus before \
the 2.0 release appeared. Since then the GPL'd Quanta Plus is developed by a new \
team, only the project leader is the same. The real answer for the question is: they \
are completely different products, so the difference is huge.

Q: What is the lates Quanta Plus?
A: The latest stable version is 3.4.0. 

Q: What is the deal with Quanta BE?
A: From time to time, if the KDE release schedule and the code base permits, we \
release snapshots of the current development version. We call this Bleeding Edge \
releases. You can imagine them as a preview version, so it's not so well tested as a  \
stable release, and the functionality present in it might change, but we are taking \
care to release only a version which is usable.

Q: Which one is newer, Quanta BE 3.3-X or Quanta 3.3.0?
A: As the BE can be called a preview of the next version, the version number \
indicates the stable version that will follow the BE release. In the above example \
Quanta 3.3.0 is the stable release and Quanta BE 3.3-X was the preview of the \
release. So the 3.3.0 is newer. Here is the history of the stable and BE releases \
since version 3.0, from oldest to newest: 3.0
3.1
3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4
3.2 BE-1
3.2.0
3.2.1
3.2.2
3.2.3
3.3 BE-2
3.3.0
3.3.1
3.3.2
3.4.0

Q: Can I have two version of Quanta at the same time?
A: Yes, you can. If you want to run a BE version, but still keep your old (stable) \
version, follow the below instructions. Remember, this is possible only if you \
compile the second version of Quanta from source. Quanta BE can be installed also \
into the same directory as the stable Quanta, as it uses a different executable name \
(quanta_be) and different data directories, but the other kdewebdev applications are \
not, and they will upgrade your current version.
 Installing two version is a matter of using a different prefix for the new version \
and setting some environment variables. Before running the new one installed outside \
of the KDE tree, you should do: export KDEDIRS=$prefix-of-second-instace:$KDEDIRS
export PATH=$prefix-of-second-instace/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$prefix-of-second-instace/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export KDEHOME=home-for-second-version
and run "quanta".

An example would be:
./configure --prefix=/opt/new-quanta
make
make install
mkdir ~/.new-quanta
export KDEDIRS=/opt/new-quanta:$KDEDIRS
export PATH=/opt/new-quanta/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/new-quanta/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export KDEHOME=~/.new-quanta
quanta

You can put the lines starting with the first "export" into a separate file,
call it "new-quanta", make it executable, put it in your PATH and when you
run "new-quanta" the version installed into /opt/new-quanta will be run.


Q: What's is the difference between kdewebdev and quanta?
A: Since the KDE 3.3.0 release a new module was created, called KDEWebDev (KDE Web \
Development) instead of the old quanta module, because there appeared many other \
applications useful for web development which can be used also as stand alone \
application, not just inside Quanta. Some of those applications were also included \
before in the quanta module, but that was not too logical. So kdewebdev is more than \
Quanta, it's a collection of applications, including Quanta.

Q: What is the KDE version Quanta relies on?
A: Quanta Plus usually require the latest or the second latest stable version of KDE. \
Quanta 3.4.0 will run on KDE 3.4.0 or KDE 3.3.x, Quanta 3.3.0 will run on KDE 3.3.0 \
or KDE 3.2.x.  The newest KDE version is always recommended, as some things might \
miss in Quanta or will not work as expected if you use an older KDE version. This is \
especially true for the VPL mode, which heavily relies on the KHTML browser engine. \
The situation is a little bit different when we talk about major releases, as Quanta \
Plus 3.0 will not run on KDE 2, and Quanta Plus 4.0 will not work with any KDE 3.x \
releases either.

Q: How can I restore the layout of the toolview and editor widgets in Quanta?
A: Due to some bugs in the underlying libraries, it may happen that you undock the \
toolviews and the editor, but you cannot dock back. There are several solutions and I \
will give you the general one, and how you can do it in Quanta 3.3/3.4: a) The \
general solution is to quit Quanta, locate the local quantarc file in you home folder \
and remove the complete [dock_settings_default] part. After you did it, restart \
Quanta. b) In 3.3 in the Settings->Configure Quanta->User Interface check the Reset \
layout to the default on the next startup checkbox and restart Quanta. c) In 3.4, in \
addition to the above, you can use the --resetlayout command line switch when \
starting Quanta

Q: How can I reuse the same Quanta instance when opening a new file associated with \
                Quanta in Konqueror (or from other application)?
A: If you start Quanta with the --unique command line switch, it will reuse the \
existing instance to load the files given as the parameter. To make use of this \
switch when opening Quanta from Konqueror (as an application associated with some \
file types), open the KDE Control Center->KDE Components->File Associations, find the \
file type you want to change (for example text/html), select Quanta Plus and press \
Edit. In the Properties dialog box switch to the Application tab and change the \
Command entry so it reads: "quanta --unique %U".

Q: Quanta does not recognize my file and treats it like HTML. What can I do?
A: If you file is a script, or CSS with a non-standard extension, Quanta will not \
recognize it, and instead it will treat as the default DTD you have selected in the \
global or project settings. But you can teach Quanta to recognize your files. If for \
                example you have CSS files with the extension of
.tpl, you should do the following:
1) create a new "x-tpl" mimetype under the "text" group in the KDE Control \
                Center->KDE Components->File Associations, which is valid for 
*.tpl files.
2) find the global $KDEDIR/share/apps/quanta/dtep/css/description.rc file and add the \
text/x-tpl to the MimeTypes list: MimeTypes = text/css,text/x-tpl
3) restart Quanta. From now on *.tpl files will be treated as CSS inside Quanta.
4) to use the CSS syntax highlighting for .tpl files, use Settings->Configure \
Editor->Highlighting and for the Markup/CSS highlight add the  text/x-tpl mimetype: \
text/css;text/x-tpl (or use the wizard button to pick up the tpl mimetype).


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