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GPL'd Quanta Plus 2.0 is Out

Posted by Navindra Umanee on Sunday 09/Dec/2001, @13:16
from the Open-Source-vs-open-source dept.
Eric Laffoon reports that the stories of the demise of GPL'd Quanta have been greatly exaggerated, and to prove it, the Quanta Plus developers have released Quanta Plus 2.0. For those of you who don't know yet, Quanta Plus is a popular and rapid web development tool for KDE. Some of you will also know that Quanta development has split into 2 branches, one of which is the Open Source KDE project known as Quanta Plus, licensed freely under the GPL, and the other is a commercial Qt product known as Quanta Gold supported by theKompany and made available under a commercial license. Thankfully, both projects are well and alive, and have their place in this world. Hey, and both look great, too (Quanta Plus, Quanta Gold).

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Hmm
by not the holy them on Sunday 09/Dec/2001, @17:38

awesome, thanks eric! I've spent a LOT of time writing pages in Quanta Plus over the last year and I'm thankful the free version's not dead.

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ummm i dont get it...
by Ian Reinhart Geiser on Sunday 09/Dec/2001, @20:05

i dont mean to troll, but I am sure some will think it is?

it looks identical to the old version, am i missing something? I dug arround for a meaningful changelog and found none.

at least the other one looks like an updated UI...

i think the KDE cvs version builds under KDE 3.0 now, is that the update?

atleat it is still in KDE cvs and not in KDE nonbeta :)

-ian reinhart geiser

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Re: ummm i dont get it... by Andras Mantia on Sunday 09/Dec/2001, @20:58

Re: ummm i dont get it... by Ian Reinhart Geiser on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @04:26

Re: ummm i dont get it... by Andras Mantia on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @05:10

Re: ummm i dont get it... by ac on Sunday 09/Dec/2001, @22:49

Re: ummm i dont get it... by Ian Reinhart Geiser on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @04:03
Re: ummm i dont get it... by Shawn Gordon on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @08:32

Re: ummm i dont get it... by Eric Laffoon on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @22:20

Re: ummm i dont get it... by Eric Laffoon on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @22:18

Re: ummm i dont get it... by ac on Thursday 13/Dec/2001, @00:37

The CVS version?
by Otter on Sunday 09/Dec/2001, @20:55

The linked project seems to have a CVS archive at Sourceforge. What is up with the Quanta in the KDE CVS tree? Is it being actively maintained?

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Re: The CVS version? by DrDubious DDQ on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @09:57

Re: The CVS version? by Shawn Gordon on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @10:09
Re: The CVS version? by Eric Laffoon on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @22:29

soft wrapping?
by Ryan... on Sunday 09/Dec/2001, @22:23

anybody know if this version supports soft line wrapping? I love pretty much everything else about Quanta, but the lack of soft wrapping drives me nuts.

guess if nothing else I'll just have to grab it and see... :)

-r-

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Re: soft wrapping? by Andras Mantia on Sunday 09/Dec/2001, @23:23

Re: soft wrapping? by hm on Tuesday 11/Dec/2001, @15:31

gpl ?
by blue on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @01:53

hi,

i'am pretty new in linux/kde world but does a company can take an open source project and sell it ?

the gpl is not here for protect this ?

ok they must give the code of the old open source project but they can i guess do inovation in plugin for not give back to the comunoty the new sources.

what do you think ?

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Re: gpl ? by maxwest on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @03:36
Re: gpl ? by J.B. Nicholson-Owens on Thursday 09/Jan/2003, @19:01

Strict HTML?
by Juha Tuomala on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @01:58

Does anyone know, will Quanta's pages pass W3C's validation?

I think that we don't need any more proprietary HTML-variants.

BTW, thank you developers for great work!

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Re: Strict HTML? by Matt Bottrell on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @03:25

Re: Strict HTML? by Juha Tuomala on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @04:24

Re: Strict HTML? by Andras Mantia on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @05:14

Re: Strict HTML? by HolgerSchurig on Tuesday 11/Dec/2001, @11:22

Re: Strict HTML? by Jos on Tuesday 11/Dec/2001, @12:08

Re: Strict HTML? by Eeli Kaikkonen on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @04:10

Re: Strict HTML? by ian reinhart geiser on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @04:54

Re: Strict HTML? by Daniel Naber on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @05:07
Re: Strict HTML? (Don't forget PHP!) by DrDubious DDQ on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @10:06

Pre-compiled binaries..?
by scb on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @07:54

At the Sourceforge download page there was only a tar.bz2 package. Does anyone know if there will be some binaries available, for example RPM's for Red Hat...?

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WYSIWYG editor coming soon.
by porter235 on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @08:19

I am looking forward to this. I make extensive use of dreamweaver on the win platforms, and have been longing for something similar for Linux. Yes, it's very good to be able to get at the code and make changes, but as a designer, it is much faster to be able to resize tables with a click and a drag, and other similar WYSIWYG features.

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Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by Uno Engborg on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @13:59
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by HotPot on Monday 10/Dec/2001, @23:28

Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by Shawn Gordon on Tuesday 11/Dec/2001, @13:04

Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by Kenneth Chau on Tuesday 11/Dec/2001, @13:40

Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by Shawn Gordon on Tuesday 11/Dec/2001, @13:52

Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by Kenneth Chau on Tuesday 11/Dec/2001, @13:59

Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by Jim on Wednesday 12/Dec/2001, @15:14

Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by Kenneth Chau on Saturday 01/Apr/2006, @12:17

Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by Michael Collette on Wednesday 12/Dec/2001, @00:42

Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by gringoloco on Thursday 29/May/2003, @07:44

Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by Stognoster on Thursday 13/Dec/2001, @09:46
Re: WYSIWYG editor coming soon. by Symo on Wednesday 12/Feb/2003, @03:32

Installation fails... Still !
by Alain on Wednesday 12/Dec/2001, @01:14

I am tired of the KDE bz2 install, it always failed !

When you look at the readme file all is easy, you unzip then you do ./configure then make then make install (as root). Yes, easy, but it NEVER works !

Surely - perhaps - it is not the fault of KDE, it is Mandrake (8.1) or my install !...

NEVER on Windows I have failed an install. On Linux/KDE all the bz2 install failed, It is tiring and frustrating... And there is no easy message to help, only :

checking for libz... configure: error: not found. Check your installation and look into config.log

With such things, Linux is still an OS for hackers, not for end users...

Well, I see that the Readme file of Quanta Plus is better than others, it is said :

Should you have trouble during ./configure or the make process, try the
following:
- export KDEDIR=<path to kde installation> and export QTDIR=<path to qt2>
before running ./configure.
- run "make -f Makefile.cvs" before ./configure .

But where is my KDEDIR, how I find it ? And the QTDIR ? Why there is not an automatic search of this path ?

Now for non hackers user, it is impossible to run the non packaged KDE apps. There is something to do...

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Re: Installation fails... Still ! by Andras Mantia on Wednesday 12/Dec/2001, @02:16

Re: Installation fails... Still ! by Alain on Wednesday 12/Dec/2001, @13:13

Plus vs Gold
by somekool on Wednesday 12/Dec/2001, @16:42

Hmm,

i just want to know the difference between thoose two version ?

is there any advantage of buying the Gold version ?

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Re: Plus vs Gold by Shawn Gordon on Monday 17/Dec/2001, @11:16

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