> > Concerning the laptop keyboard -- if you have multimedia keys, ... >
Thanks Chris - no - it is more that on the native keyboard, the keys have German and European keycaps - which makes it a little confusing when your touch skills are at best about 80%. No problems there - I just got a new separate keyboard - it works great. An example is the "1" key has above the one a "+" and below it a pipe symbol. An exclamation mark is .... there it is - over on the shifted close-bracket key. When Shift-1 is actually used, I DO get a bang, but on the intermediate times I don't recall exactly where something is, it is confusing. Just the keycaps - nothing else. > > I would like to start thinking about doing some programming work (in a > > language or languages as yet undefined) on the system and initially > > installed KDevelop. Have a few problems there and if anyone would care to > > share some experience regarding initial setup of that system, it would be > > well received. > > I tried KDevelop and found it confusing and "heavy", and ended up using > either Kate, or the Nano command-line editor after copying /etc/nanorc to > ~/.nanorc and uncommenting the desired colorization regex sets near the end > of the config file. > KDevelop itself doesn't look too bad (considering I have been a pretty strictly vi/command-line nut for about 10 years now) and I may continue to fight with it, but I will also look at your suggestions. I tend to prefer the simple things, but have reasons to look at IDE platforms as well. It has just been an awful long time. Right now, I am having a miserable time with the canned "hello world" sample giving Qt errors that I just can't work out. Sigh. It isn't even "my code"! But yes, I agree that at a very first look, it looks pretty massive. Maybe it will be worth it - I am not yet sure. I will find out just how tenacious I wish to be. JC > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys > Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) > Aug 6 - Zenos > Sep 3 - TBD > > -- Eschew obfuscation and pompous prolixity. Light a man a fire, he is warm for the night. Light a man afire, he is warm for the rest of his life. _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jun 4 - Sqeak! and eToys Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative) Aug 6 - Zenos Sep 3 - TBD
