Re: [Anima-devel] Current Anima Objectives

[Talin <Ta...@AC...>]

Chris Harris wrote:

> > Note that I would like the loading and saving of
> > files to be via a
> > plugin (I assume there's some sort of standard way
> > of doing plugins in
> > KDE).
> 
> I'm not sure on this. I'll check it out though, as I
> need to write some other plugins for it too.

Of course, in KDE 2.0 it's blindingly obvious how to do this, since the
whole "KParts" system is designed to be able to facilitate the easy
creation of plugins.

The more I look at it, the more stuff I see in KDE2 which we would need
to write ourselves if we wanted this thing to work under KDE1. For
example, KDE 2 has an XML parser, which would make it trivial to parse
the project configuration file.

I've spent the last week experimenting with KDE2 (instead of working on
Anima). I've managed to download, compile, and install it in a way that
allows me to run both KDE1 and KDE2 together at the same time, with only
slight interference between one another. In fact, at the moment I'm
actually running under the KDE2 KWin/Kicker environment, and it seems
pretty stable, although many of the actual applications have great
gaping holes at the moment (for example, the KDE2 version of KDevelop is
useless and buggy, but the KDE1 version works fine.) At the moment, I'm
trying to figure out how to coerce the KDE1 version of Kdevelop into
displaying the KDE2 API documentation; It shows some of it, but not all.

What's your opinion about developing for KDE2 vs. KDE1? If it was just
me and I didn't have to worry about anyone else, I'd go for the upgrade.
It's true that KDE2 will limit my potential market for a while, but I
_think_ it will save some coding time. And it's not like Anima is going
to be ready to ship tomorrow.

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