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Hi, here are some things that might not be immediately clear :
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- There are different source dirs ( kig, objects, misc, filters and
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modes ) ( just in case this wasn't clear.. )
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- for testing code, i don't really know how you're supposed to do this with
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kparts, so i just do a "make install" every time, and then simply run the
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program, you prolly want to do "./configure --enable-debug=full
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--prefix=/usr/local/kde3" (meanwhile, i found out, the solution is in a
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developer faq on developer.kde.org
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(http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/developer-faq.html#q67.1)
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- There is some documentation about the design in the file DESIGN
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- if you want to contribute, your work is more than welcome, no matter where
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you want to help: translation, coding, art, just send us a mail at
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kde-edu-devel@kde.org (preferably before you start, so you won't be
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doing unnecessary work or something like that), if you have cvs access,
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you can of course always commit to cvs
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I started Kig because we were using "Cabri" in school, a proprietary
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windows-only app. When I started looking for free alternatives that ran on
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linux, i found two: KGeo and KSeg. Both had features and limitations, KSeg
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had most features, but was ugly. Furthermore, it was qt-only, which did
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allow it to run on windows too, but made it not fit into kde. KGeo was
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fully KDE, but didn't have all the features that KSeg had.
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I first wanted to merge both together, but the code was rather incompatible,
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so I wanted to simply extend KGeo. Since I was planning to make it a kpart
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app, i started with "kapptemplate --kpart-app", and then started coding. I
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was first planning to use lots of code from both kgeo and kseg, but i ended
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up recoding everything since in many cases it was faster than porting stuff,
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and i wanted to change rather much in the code.
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I did get much inspiration from the source of both programs, and i used some
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source and many pictures from KGeo, I would therefore want to thank both
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developers for their work.
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I also want to thank everyone who contributed something to Kig or to
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free software in general.
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