On Wednesday 19 July 2006 03:01, Vince Negri wrote: > A.J.Mechelynck wrote: > > My distribution of SuSE 9.3 came with a program named kvim which is > > a version of gvim 6.2.14, modified for kde (and, IIUC, Qt) (but > > --version says "compiled by [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and no modified-by line). > > (The console Vim that came with it was a 6.3.58.). Good luck to you > > if you want to merge kvim into mainstream Vim with a proper set of > > #ifdef's. > > I recall that the merging of kvim patches into the Vim tree went > further than that - the KDE gui is mentioned in the help files. I > even seem to remember that at one point the gui_kde files appeared in > CVS, only to be removed again once they became unmaintained. So if a > maintainer were to step forward, I would expect that Bram (or > someone) would have at least the last 6.3 sources as a starting > point. > > Since KVim is primarily a GUI port, I don't think much has changed > between Vim 6.3 and Vim 7 that would cause big problems. I didn't > have to change anything in the Win16 GUI code, for example, when I > did the Win16 version of Vim 7. > > Another possible approach would be to do a "pure QT" port > rather than a KDE port (much of the old KDE code could be reused) as > then the resulting GUI Vim would be cross-platform (now that QT4 is > dual-licensed for Windows as well as Un*x) > > Vince If it's built against KDE4, you'll get the GUI to be cross platform in the first place with minimal (or no) need for the GTK+ version. Pure Qt programs can integrate well with KDE provided you follow the KDE UI guidelines <http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/basics/index.html>. You won't get the fun tools like KNotify, the toolbars, etc., but that would be the tradeoff for using just Qt (thus it would be somewhat annoying considering writing a KDE GUI for Vim should be straightforward as compared to a Qt GUI). You could technically use kdelibs4 as that is KDE's top priority in stabilisation, so a KDE4 version of Vim wouldn't be too difficult to maintain.
Now I haven't really programmed using kdelibs and such, but if I could learn how, I might be able to help out with a KVim port. -- Matt Sicker
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