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[Cody Tracy]

Cody Tracy wrote:
>Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>Bernardo Innocenti <bernie <at> codewiz.org> writes:
>>
>>>>Or if you hate packaging, you could just use my packages to develop some
>>>>nice KDE 4 app and have me or somebody else package it for Fedora.
>>>>
>>>Is there a yum repo for these?
>>>
>>
>>As I said, they are in the unstable repository at kde-redhat.
>>
>>
>>>I'm surprised RPMs are already being distributed, because I'm building
>>>KDE4 from sources quite often and it's a very lucky day when the SVN
>>>checkouts build at all.
>>>
>>
>>I took the 3.80.3 developer snapshot, that one is at least known to 
>>compile. I then cherry-picked a few bugfixes from current SVN and 
>>backported these.
>>
>>I'm not going to upgrade wholesale to a new snapshot before Alpha 1.
>>
>>
>>>So far, the result of starting kde4 apps ranged from "crashes 
>>>immediately"
>>>to "opens a window that doesn't respond to input". This includes core
>>>stuff like Konqueror and Kicker.
>>>
>>
>>Konqueror 3.80.3 starts up with one of the patches I backported. (In 
>>unpatched 3.80.3, it would only work if you give it a URL to open, 
>>otherwise it crashed immediately.) It's possible some other changes in 
>>current SVN broke it again, but 3.80.3 with the patch works.
>>
>>Kicker is deprecated and being replaced with Plasma, so it probably 
>>shouldn't be expected to work. I don't recommend running a full KDE 4 
>>session yet anyway, instead run KDE 3 (or even GNOME) and then fire up the 
>>individual KDE 4 apps you want to try out inside that session. My 
>>parallel-installation patches should make that work seamlessly.
>>
>>Now, there's definitely a lot of stuff which is still buggy. The packages 
>>are in "unstable" for a reason. But they're good enough for their intended 
>>purpose, which is to allow developing apps using the KDE 4 libs.
>>
>>         Kevin Kofler
>>
>>
>Well, can anyone point me in the right direction to get started?  Docs,
>desired applications and such?  I'm sure I can find the docs on the KDE
>4 libs but I'm not sure where to find redhat specific documentation.  I
>could most definitely write some front ends for these system apps.  Just
>need the docs.
>
>Thanks
>
>
Keep in mind that I've only been programming for about 2 years in
Windows at my job so if possible I would like someone that has been
working on this project to look over my code and make sure I didn't do
something stupid.  I do have a project at work for linux though and I'm
using Qt4, sane, and libtiff for this.  I really like this project and I
would like to contribute what I can.

Thanks again.