Hi, My name is Yichao Yu (yuyichao). I started to use KDE as my main DE about one and two years ago and started contributing to some KDE projects soon after including konsole, kdelibs, dolphin etc..
I have recently (about half a year ago) adopted QtCurve[1], a highly configurable theme engine for Qt3, Qt4, Qt5, KWin4 and Gtk2. For those who don't know QtCurve yet, it is the theme engine used by more than half of the widget themes on kde-look. The project was started by Craig Drummond in (or before) 2006 and is now included in most distributions. I would like to move QtCurve to the KDE infrastructure for several reasons. Besides the most obvious ones like making use of the repo, wiki, bug trackers etc. : - As a KDE friendly cross toolkit style engine, this will help me and future QtCurve developer to keep up-to-date with API changes in KDE (e.g. the shadow handling change in 4.8 and the appmenu support in 4.10). - It will also make it easier for KWin developers to make sure their API changes "are sane", especially for the KF5 port. Personally, I have always been hoping to join the KDE community and get involved in the development more. I was not very sure whether QtCurve can fit into the KDE community since kdelibs is just a minor optional dependency and I'm still working on making it to work better outside KDE. However, Martin (the KWin one...) convinced me that KDE is not just a collection of softwares that links to kdelibs or can only run in KDE (the desktop environment) and that's the reason I'm sending this email. Looking forward to hear from you soon. Yichao Yu [1] https://github.com/QtCurve/qtcurve [2] http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=40492 _______________________________________________ kde-community mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-community
