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Just out of interest:
by Martin on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @00:26

Does the VPL stuff in Quanta already do anything useful?
Or is this still in development?
This is no trolling.
I'm using Quanta for quite some time now for normal editing purposes and
it's working mostly OK.

I just tried out VPL for the first time and found it so extremely buggy that I couldnt do anything useful with it.
What I did:
1) I started Quanta
2) I pressed F9 for Split View (VPL+Code)
3) I could not click in the VPL part (Cursor did not blink or focus)
so I clicked in the Code between the body tags
4) Now I called the table assistant and created a 2x2 table
5) All the cells were very small. I could not click or enter text in a
cell in VPL. So I clicked between the TD tags in the code and entered text.
In some cells the text did appear in VPL, in some others not. At least not
at first. When I entered text in further cells, the missing cells suddely
appeared. Now I double-clicked a cell in VPL and the text inside was highlighted. Now I tried to enter a new text inside the cell directly in VPL. The current text disappeared but I couldnt enter new text.
6) I created a second tab to repeat my steps. Now Quanta crashed.

I dont think I did anything special. Arent this just the absolute basics of
a HTML editor? Did I do anything completely wrong? Or is VPL not at a
stage where it's usable yet? Or did I get the purpose of this VPL thing
completely wrong?

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Re: Just out of interest:
by anonymous on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @01:14

Why don't you report this issue at KDE's bugzilla: <a href="http://bugs.kde.org">bugs.kde.org</a>?
It will surely be more useful than complaning here.

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Re: Just out of interest:
by Jan on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @03:32

Typical standard replies are not useful. Did you read my post properly at all?
I did not complain. I was just asking if this should be in a usable state at all.
There are so many bugs that I'm *really* wondering if this is just me or if anyone is using this already successfully. It's not useful at this point to file thousands of bugs IMO.

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Re: Just out of interest:
by Andras Mantia on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @04:40

VPL is pretty much unmaintained in 3.5.x, what I do is just crash fixing. :-( But as I heard it is usable for some, so we did't remove it.

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Re: Just out of interest:
by Jan on Thursday 01/Jun/2006, @09:31

Ah! Thanks for answering. That explains alot. Well, I will try VPL again with Quanta 4. I'm still looking for sth. like Dreamweaver for KDE. Nvu isnt much usable either at this moment unfortunately because of important missing features and bugs. In the mean time I will stay with Dreamweaver under QEMU.

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