From quanta-devel  Sun Feb 21 10:38:27 2010
From: Milian Wolff <mail () milianw ! de>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:38:27 +0000
To: quanta-devel
Subject: [quanta-devel] Quanta+ for KDE 4 - GSOC
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Hey all!

If you don't know me: I'm one of the KDevelop 4 hackers whipping up PHP=20
support, Snippets and the GenericManager among other things.

I've been contributing for about a year now and this time I finally want to=
=20
apply for GSOC. My idea is it to revive the Quanta+ product and ship someth=
ing=20
useable for webdevelopers. I want to concentrate on:

=2D polish Quanta+ to bring it up to par to KDevelop
=2D remove obsolete cruft and unfinished code to playground and instead=20
concentrate on polishing the plugins we have for KDevplatform
=2D remove KDE 3 code (the deprecated stuff)
=2D introduce some kind of HTML support based on the KDevplatform framework

At the beginning I'd probably move most of the Quanta code to playground as=
=20
it's outdated and not integrated into the KDevplatform. Then I'd put in the=
=20
gems from playground/extragear that are useful for web development: PHP, CS=
S,=20
XDebug, ExecuteScript, CrossFire, XML, Upload, ...

Additionally there are parts in the KDevplatform that would need work, amon=
g=20
others I'd like to hide some actions in Quanta that are useful for compiled=
=20
languages (most / all of the build process) and change the default set of=20
toolviews to the needs of a webdeveloper.

This way me and Niko think that one could get to the point where Quanta wou=
ld=20
be a useful product again. Some parts would actually be better than anythin=
g=20
else it ever had, esp. the PHP support. Other areas though will lack or die=
 in=20
the process, and this is also something I'd like to have your feedback on:

What Quanta+3 Feature are you relying on?

I personally never used the inline HTML-preview. Imo WYSIWYG is not applica=
ble=20
to webdevelopers, it simply messes up to much and is too unreliable. Hence =
I'd=20
drop it. Users that quickly want to have a website without the need to know=
=20
HTML should not use an editor at all. They should get a Wordpress account o=
r=20
similar and be done with it.

Also stuff like the custom toolbars are something I'd like to remove. Inste=
ad=20
one should use snippets, Kate scripts, ... I actually did create some actio=
ns=20
back when I used Quanta3 but never once it was an action important enough t=
o=20
be shown in a toolbar.

So what do you think? May I proceed and try to create a useful Quanta+ for =
KDE=20
4?

Have a nice day
=2D-=20
Milian Wolff
mail@milianw.de
http://milianw.de

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