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| 2 | Kde application framework template quickstart
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| 3 | Author: Thomas Nagy
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| 4 | Date: 2003-06-20
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| 5 | -----------------------------------------------
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| 6 |
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| 7 | This README file explains you how to use this application template.
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| 8 |
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| 10 | * To distribute your program, try "make dist".
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| 11 | This will make a compact tarball archive of your release with the
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| 12 | necessary scripts inside.
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| 13 |
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| 14 | * To clean everything try make distclean
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| 15 |
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| 16 | * To build the configure script try make -f Makefile.cvs
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| 17 |
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| 18 | * For the translations :
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| 19 | 1. Download a patched gettext which can be found at:
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| 20 | http://public.kde.planetmirror.com/pub/kde/devel/gettext-kde/
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| 21 | 2. Install that gettext in ~/bin/
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| 22 | 3. cd ~/yourproject, export PATH=~/bin:$PATH, export
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| 23 | KDEDIR=/where_your_KDE3_is
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| 24 | 4. make -f admin/Makefile.common package-messages
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| 25 | 5. make package-messages
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| 26 | 6. Translate the po files (not the pot!!) with kbabel or xemacs
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| 27 |
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| 28 |
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| 29 | * Build the menus of your application easily
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| 30 | kde applications now use an xml file (*ui.rc file) to build the menus.
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| 31 | This allow a great customization of the application. However, when
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| 32 | programming the menu is shown only after a "make install"
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| 33 |
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| 34 | For more details, consult :
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| 35 | http://devel-home.kde.org/~larrosa/tutorial/p9.html
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| 36 | http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/xmlui/preface.html
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| 37 |
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| 38 |
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| 39 | * Modifying the auto-tools scripts
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| 40 | for automake scripts there is an excellent tutorial there :
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| 41 | http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/makefile_am_howto.html
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| 42 |
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| 43 | * Simplify your life : install the project in your home directory for
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| 44 | testing purposes.
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| 45 | ./configure --prefix=/home/user/dummyfolder/
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| 46 | In the end when you finished the development you can
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| 47 | rm -rf /home/user/dummyfolder/
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| 48 | without fear.
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