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Subject:    Re: [quanta-devel] Help With Getting Source Code (bunzip2,
From:       Randy Kramer <rhkramer () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-09-21 15:40:10
Message-ID: 200509211018.43494.rhkramer () gmail ! com
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Thanks for your prompt responses!

I'm going to spend some time digging into quanta, dcop, and kate and then I'll 
surely have some more questions / responses, but I have two "quick" (off the 
top of my head) questions:

1. I've seen somewhere recently (but probably in some archives--and I don't 
have the reference at the moment--if I find it I'll forward it) that dcop may 
go away in qt/kde4 (maybe that's only for specific applications?), to be 
replaced by something called dbus (iirc).  On the assumption that I'll want 
to migrate to qt/kde4 when it is released/more widely available, am I wasting 
my time with dcop?  

Oops, wait, here it is, a post on kde-devel from yesterday (20050920):

<quote>
Re: Dcop and KDE4
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org>
To: kde-devel@kde.org, dfeustel@mindspring.com
Date: Yesterday 08:41:12 pm (20050920)

Dave Feustel wrote:
>Could someone who knows please describe
>plans for DCOP in KDE4?

The current plans are:

Short version: no DCOP.

Long version: we still haven't decided how to best interoperate the KDE4 
applications, which will most likely speak DBus natively, with the 
DCOP-speaking KDE3 applications. There are several levels of problems 
there, including ioslave creation, the ioslave wire protocol, klauncher, 
kded functions, etc.
</quote>

Re the following: I'm probably very premature with any questions about kate as 
I'm just starting to look at it.

2. I just installed kate (2.2, on my Mandrake 10 system).  Is kate the editor 
used in quanta (I ask partially because kate was not originally installed on 
my system).  If so, are all features of kate available in quanta?  If some 
features of kate are not in quanta, can they be easily added (i.e., by a 
user / user commands)?

regards,
Randy Kramer

Maybe I should clarify my background at least a little--been involved in Linux 
for about 5 years, since early on kde has been my preferred desktop, used to 
do programming in things like algol, fortran, PL/1, (Turbo) Pascal, Visual 
Basic, and a bunch of others including various "embedded" and proprietary 
languages (including several macros in nedit related to earlier iterations of 
this project).  A few times have thought about trying to help with 
development efforts in Linux (nedit, abiWord, and recently kde / khtml / 
quanta), was trying to learn Ruby (to work on this project, looked at the 
QtRuby/Korundum bindings a little (tried the P1 through P9 (iirc) example 
programs) in the tutorials), currently see quanta as the most promising way 
forward.  Despite past attempts at learning C/C++, I never accomplished and 
don't remember much.  

What's my point?  I guess part of it is that although I would not relish 
modifying quanta's C++, it shouldn't be totally out of the question.


On Tuesday 20 September 2005 06:21 pm, Eric Laffoon wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 September 2005 11:46 am, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 01:50 pm, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 19:20, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > > >    * I want to edit a plain text file with TWiki markup, filter that

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