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I can't help but wonder
by Eric Laffoon on Sunday 19/Jan/2003, @13:07
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I see we (Quanta Plus) were reviewed with version 3.0 PR1 because this is what Mandrake chose to ship. This release was a "let's just get something out for KDE 3 users" package that was plagued with many problems and lacking many features. It is interesting that we still review so well, however we have been sitting on a 3.1 release waiting for KDE. In the process it has benefitted from speed increases and backporting of some feature improvements. It is much better for those using PHP.
It is interesting that in the comparison they state that we don't have CVS but we have integrated Cervisia since 3.0 final. Let me repeat... reviewing a pre-release when a final has been our for many months doesn't make sense to me. I'm not surprised when reviewers miss the scoping of project resources, but the FTP feature is a non starter. KDE has it built in so why should we waste effort making a new one. Our upload dialog in 3.0 (note I'm talking a real release) has enough improvements for me to start using it. I had not used the old one because it made no allowance for for the upload list getting mixed up. Now I can reset all.
Evaluating how spell check performed in a pre-release? We have so many features to keep track of I can't remember what was when any more but our releases are the best. As they mentioned word wrap I should note that 3.1 on KDE 3.1 will have soft wrap, one of our most requested features. Also, line numbering can be turned on by default in the final release. Now maybe we need to make it an application default for future reviews.
Our templating is also good for more than pages. It does code snippets and even can be used to link common binary files. It is also scoped gloabal/local/project.
I can't believe the author is asking for an integrated FTP client in Quanta Plus. Excuse me. Can we try some research before writing? *ALL* KDE dialogs inherit kio which gives them FTP, SFTP, Fish, SMB or whatever is on your system. Just enter ftp://user@domain/path in the top dropdown to get a file listing or complete the file in the bottom dropdown for the file. (This is in our 3.0 docs and the welcome docs.) This also works in konqueror so you can drag and drop and manage files transparently like they were on your system. This is why we won't be adding a lame attempt to duplicate what is already done so brilliantly by KDE. In our 3.1 release, due out any day, you will be able to use your home machine to run a project on your work machine and upload it to the server. All of it will look transparent on your system. This was achieved by a total rewrite of much of the original code and a big part of 3.1 was debugging this.
In noting the features available in the commercial editor it should be noted that we have docs available for HTML, PHP, Javascript and PHP. These docs work with context sensitive help.
I am very happy to have been reviewed well, but as an open source project we have a hurdle with servicing our user base. I answer a lot of email explaining things people missed, correcting erroneous presumptions and trying to explain what can actually be done. Open source is truly amazing because you can actually talk to the people that build the project. I want to talk to reviewers because they can help the project by exposing our feature set rather than a cursory, load it up and look around, review. Reviewers can enrich users experience and make project developers lives easier by doing their due dilligence.
Once again I'm reading a review where the author did not contact me... even though my email address is in every about dialog. If he could not figure out how to get line numbers on by default he could have done what a number of users have done... write me. When you consider that by answering his question I could answer it for everyone reading the review it seems almost deriliction to leave me to do it by email or talk back. The same goes for FTP. I'm also sure that they have the latest release from theKompany as they said that anti-aliasing was coming. I would have gladly gotten out the release I'm posting to freshmeat today to the author.
We have been working very hard to provide a tool for the community that is in no way second best and in the best tradition of GPL offers the ultimate freedom. I can only continue to hope and dream that someday GPL'd programs will receive the same traditional courtesy that proprietary apps receive, to be pre contacted and to offer useful input to the author. Looking at the site this article was posted I see a number of posts already revolving around confusion on just the points I made. Fortuantely some users are clearing things up. |
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Re: I can't help but wonder
by ac on Sunday 19/Jan/2003, @16:00
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Relax a bit. :-)
It's free publicity. Sometimes things move very fast in the Open Source world for everyone to keep track.
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Re: I can't help but wonder
by Iuri Fiedoruk on Sunday 19/Jan/2003, @16:57
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I'm with you Eric.
Most features asked in the review are already in quanta 3.1.
Some as line numbers in side of text came from kate/kwrite (I have to say that kate improvements helped quanta a lot too). This is the beauty about quanta being a KDE app, when KDE gets better, quanta gets better too.
I had stopped using Quanta+ for a period, using kate, because it wasn't very good, but I'm back with Quanta+ 3.1. It's fast, efficient, very configurable and helps a lot my PHP coding.
All in all I just want to thank for your (and all Quanta+ team) that are helping out for FREE, to OPEN SOURCE!
I hope from deep on my heart you guys have all health and money you deserves for helping people with your software. :)
(I think this is the 9th time I thanks you, and now that I got into Computer Cience I can at least learn basic C functions and C++ objects, so I can start helping out with some code). PS: I don't get tired of thanking ;)
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Re: I can't help but wonder
by jaysaysay on Sunday 19/Jan/2003, @20:15
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ftp://user@domain/path
what do you do when the "user" name includes an obligatory @ because of some IPS?
Just out of curiosity... I love quanta.
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Re: I can't help but wonder
by AC on Monday 20/Jan/2003, @00:30
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You should be able to URL encode the @ sign... @ is ascii character 64, which is hex 40, so you'd use %40 in place of @. For example:
ftp://user%40somewhere@domain/path
This should work from anything that supports ftp URLs, including KDE, but I haven't tried it. :-)
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Re: I can't help but wonder
by AC on Monday 20/Jan/2003, @00:37
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Replying to myself, ha ha...
You can also just use ftp://domain/path and if that host doesn't have an anonymous FTP account, KDE will pop up a box allowing you to type both the name and the password. That method is a little slower, but probably easier. :-)
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Re: I can't help but wonder
by jaysaysay on Monday 20/Jan/2003, @17:38
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both dont work in my case.
i still continue to use gftp which is good.
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Re: I can't help but wonder
by David Faure on Wednesday 29/Jan/2003, @15:21
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You are correct. The Konqueror FAQ has an entry for this BTW.
http://www.konqueror.org/faq.html
Hmm, why is there only Plain Text in the Encoding combobox, but there is still a line at the bottom saying "Allowed HTML:" ... Let's add a "dot.kde.org" area on http://bugs.kde.org :))
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