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List:       quanta-devel
Subject:    [quanta-devel] Getting Quanta4 up
From:       Eric Laffoon <eric () kittyhooch ! com>
Date:       2009-02-19 1:38:18
Message-ID: 200902181738.18686.eric () kittyhooch ! com
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Hi all,
It's embarrassing to say it but I just got Quanta4 up from SVN. Previously I 
was having trouble building KDE4 on Gentoo. It's not that I couldn't do it. 
It's that the build scripts and options were never just right for me and 
always quirky... probably from missing instructions at 2AM. Gentoo was also 
obscenely late getting out KDE4 ebuilds. By the time 4.1 came out I think they 
were finally releasing 4.0. I don't have the patience to work on one desktop 
and program on the other. I'm too free form and have too many things open. I'm 
running openSUSE now, much as I hate RPMs and much as I would like to see how 
fast I can compile KDE on my new Athlon Quad 9500 with 8 GB of RAM. Seems a 
shame not to be compiling a few things, indexing a database and running Quake3 
at the same time. ;-)

Anyway I just took a look at Quanta. I was both delighted and dismayed. I was 
delighted because it runs and doesn't crash instantly. I was dismayed as I 
didn't see hardly anything there. Two factors are significant right now. First 
off I am capable of hacking code. Second, our business is finally starting to 
leapfrog to our plans for obscene profits. So the option of sponsoring someone 
without worrying about constant fund raising is there. Unfortunately, in this 
case, I have two projects with the same needs. 

I'm prepared to be the primary developer on Kommander in the short term. I use 
both programs in my business, but at the moment I'm using Kommander a lot more 
and suffering a lot over what it lacks in KDE4. I could hack some code in 
Quanta. I'm sure Andras would same something similar. Neither of us really 
have time. I have been working until sunrise and then napping a few hours 
every day for the last week or more. I need these tools to make my business 
work.

Niko I'm hoping you are willing and able to pick up a good portion of what 
needs to be done. I'm going to put out requests for volunteer developers 
shortly and I'm watching for where I feel comfortable with sponsored 
development.

Some questions
1) Projects doesn't seem to see my current quanta projects. What's the deal 
with that?
2) Are we set up to take advantage of the new Qt docks like Dolphin has. I 
really love that system.
3) files load blindingly fast. Is the new parser being used? How can I 
validate that? I don't see auto complete working.
4) Can anyone give me any status on the the present state of  porting existing 
features and any ideas about the challenges and opportunities for KDE4?

I will be reading the lists again. I can't give an exact time for my shift in 
focus as it depends on a rather complex web of things, but I hope within a few 
weeks to a month.
-- 
Eric Laffoon
Kitty Hooch LLC
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