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Re: I love Koffice
by Michael Thaler on Sunday 19/Sep/2004, @13:57

If you love KOffice why don't you work on it instead of waiting to hit the jackpot and donate KDE a big check? KOffice definitely has a shortage of developers and contributors. You could for example help with Krita. Krita is a painting and image editing application for KDE and is part of KOffice. Many of the basic things like loading and saving images, basic painting ops like freehand painting, drawing lines etc. are already working. But some of the basic functionallity is still missing and some of these things are not hard to implement. Basically everyone with some basic knowledge of programming can help. I think another application that definitely needs some help is kspread. As far as I know KSpread only has one or two active developers right now and there are some plans to rework KSpread, so they can definitely need someone to help them.

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Re: I love Koffice
by Nicolas Goutte on Sunday 19/Sep/2004, @15:00

Well, unfortunately, not only KSpread has so few developers.

Have a nice day!

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Re: I love Koffice
by Corbin on Sunday 19/Sep/2004, @17:19

Only problem with that is I can't program good enough to contribute code, I'm horrible at writing so I can't do docs, not the best graphics designer either...

I really need to some time just try and stress test the apps a lot and the report any bugs I can find and reproduce, that will help them some.

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Re: I love Koffice
by Nicolas Goutte on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @02:08

Well, a task could be to test the MathML import filter of KFormula with the MathML test suite, see http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice-devel&m=109553329117502&w=2

The only problem is that a very recent KFormula is needed, as a bug made the output of the MathML import filter corrupt (even in KOffice 1.3.3).

Have a nice day!

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Re: I love Koffice
by Nicolas Goutte on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @04:36

Adding Doxygen comments could be a task too for people understanding C++, but not wishing to develop. (Doxygen: http://doxygen.org )

Sometimes the comments already exist, but not in Doxygen format, sometimes there are in the .cpp files but we need them in the .h files and sometimes the existing Doxygen comments could be improved, by a brief description for example or by replacing plain text by the corresponding Doxygen command.

Have a nice day!

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Re: I love Koffice
by piggy on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @03:29

Well, Your prospects in job market aren't very bright indeed ;-)

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Re: I love Koffice
by Boudewijn Rempt on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @01:25

I've noticed that there are some things that can be done for Krita in bite-size pieces, but other things demand at least a week of concentrated hacking. I had taken two days off to work on selections, with the idea of adding Saturday, so I would have three whole days. But then an issue arose at work, and I had to work on some obscure FreeBSD/MySQL/Java problem that day.

I guess what I want to say is, I'd love to get a check that would enable me to buy five holidays from my employers to get something big done :-).

if no checks are forthcoming, Michael is absolutely right: there's this big TODO list which has lots of small, easy tasks that can be done with nothing more than the Qt documentation and a little perseverance...

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Re: I love Koffice
by Gonzalo on Monday 20/Sep/2004, @18:23

Because I already work on other projects. And if your intent is getting people to contribute, then it would help a great deal if you put the accusatory tone down.

People contribute when they can whatever they can give. Stop playing leader and lead with your actions. Stop pretending you know me or how many of my waking hours I already contribute to Free Sotware. Is that clear?

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Re: I love Koffice
by Nicolas Goutte on Tuesday 21/Sep/2004, @08:14

We are not forcing anybody.

Have a nice day!

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