[Rosegarden-devel] Porting thoughts and questions

[Julie S <msj...@ya...>]

Hello Folks,

I spent the day reading C++GUI-Programming with Qt4 manual--It was a free download, though not the latest release--Qt 4.1.1.

Learning lots.

Michael, you mentioned a few things today about making decisions on icons, and hand coding things.

I guess that leads to some design decisions as well.  Have we come to any conclusions about KDE vs/ QT such as kapp and KConfig, etc.

I looked over the dev:notes on porting.  It has good information, but I was hoping to glean some insight into design decisions.

I think my personal favorite is to move away from KDE for everything we can.  But, that is my limited perspective on things.

I think I'd prefer the slog part--taking a piece of code and getting it to run then compiling the script--again from my limited experience.  I just feel like I'd learn more that way and start knocking out some files.

But that would require a lot more information than we have on hand about design decisions.  Like where to pull out KDE and where not too.

Well, I guess I'm just feeling a bit overwhelmed with my limited Perl capabilities, my complete lack of KDE knowledge and thousands of errors.

At least QT4 makes some sense to me and I'm getting pretty comfortable with  the C++ stuff.  

Maybe, I should follow your lead.  Take a file and hand code.  Then see what I can do to automate it--script it.  Even if it isn't scriptable, I've learned something; we have one more file that compiles and hopefully we've set up a coding sample to build upon as we make decisions about implementation.

Well, I'm going back to my reading, then to bed.  No new code from me for RG today.

Sincerely,
Julie S.