On Friday, June 10, 2011 03:27:48 pm Billie Walsh wrote:

> On 06/10/2011 02:15 PM, Milian Wolff wrote:

> > John Culleton, 10.06.2011:

> >> On Friday, June 10, 2011 09:26:14 am Milian Wolff wrote:

> >>> Werner, 09.06.2011:

> >>>> Hi

> >>>>

> >>>> What is the best (de facto) place/channel to watch for news about

> >>>> those plugins being released?

> >>>

> >>> Our website (kdevelop.org), the planet (planetkde.org) or maybe even

> >>> this mailing list. I hope to remember to write a mail here once this

> >>> is done.

> >>>

> >>> Bye

> >>

> >> With these plugins will Kdevelop have a user interface and a

> >> functionality similar to Quanta++? Or will I have to learn a new

> >> package? If that is the case I can always learn Amaya or Bluefish

> >> instead. I have both on my machine.

> >

> > No, KDevelop with these plugins will not equal Quanta3. Instead they

> > probably aim (for now?) at a more advanced user base, i.e. those who

> > write mostly PHP and don't need some fancy GUI to click together some

> > HTML stuff.

> >

> > If Amaya or Bluefish fit your needs better, try them instead.

> >

> >> Will the plugins be shipped with KDE?

> >

> > Just like KDevelop is (for now?) in extragear, so will these plugins be

> > eventually. I'll release them together with the other plugins. Distro

> > packagers should then create easy-to-install packages for you, just like

> > with KDevelop and the PHP plugin.

> >

> >> It looks like the developers want to extend Kdevelop but many users want

> >> Quanta++ back again. I Quanta++ has been abandoned as a project then say

> >> so and I will look elsewhere.

> >

> > I'd rather say: There are no Quanta+ developers (sadly!) and we KDevelop

> > devs try to do our best to improve what we have. Note that most of us

> > don't have a need for Webdevelopment related things. Niko and me only

> > invest time on a few things which we personally would use (i.e. advanced

> > language support). Most of the old Quanta+ features don't appeal to us,

> > hence we don't spend time on bringing them back to live.

> >

> > Anyhow, I suggest at least trying KDevelop for PHP development, before

> > you look elsewhere.

> >

> > Bye

>

> So, I guess the bottom line is that the best web authoring software

> available for any OS is just going to die off due to a lack of developer

> interest.

>

> Bluefish is a pretty fair start on a good piece of software. Not even

> close to Quanta, but a start.

>

> Just got Amaya installed and haven't had time to play with it much so

> can't really comment. It doesn't look as intuitive as Quanta at a first

> glance.

>

> KompoZer is another fair start but it has some pretty bad habits.

>

> Anyone else have any other suggestions?

If there were a way to run Quanta in a virtual window on

KDE4 machines that would do it.

Where can I find the source code for Quanta?

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