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Re: Great idea
by Diederik on Monday 04/Dec/2006, @00:19

> I haven't read any code of KOffice or something, but on KDE
> there is no lack of documentation at all, and Qt has a very
> complete documentation in general.

Well I have experienced the lack of it. The kde-core libs are well documented, but the other libs are not.

Try implementing a KHTMLPart for instance, and updating the HTML page with DOM manipulation methods from C++. I couldn't figure it out with the documentation, and actually had to dive into Kopetes code to find an example of how it works. Turns out you could just assign a DOM node objects to a HTMLElement class. This is not documented at all, making it almost impossible to use a KHTMLPart in your app.

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Re: Great idea
by cl on Monday 04/Dec/2006, @00:40

Well it's open source right. So if you found out how to do, why don't YOU add the documentation to the source code??

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Re: Great idea
by Jisaku Jien on Tuesday 12/Dec/2006, @01:41

That's a problem for us developers developing under open source. We often do not document our software when it is needed and thus, the next developer that uses our works may have to miss out on some nifty but undocumented feature.

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