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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