On Sunday 20 July 2008, Jack Chastain wrote: > > 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%.
Oh, okay -- I had understood what you had said, but not why. Now I get it. Early on I had learned to type with six fingers, and probably just as fast as I can now with touch typing, but I needed to see the keys, so I understand. I still need to learn the Dvorak layout. ;-) > > > 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. That happens. > 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"! Be mindful of which Qt development tree you have installed; you might be trying to compile Qt 3 programs with the Qt 4 development tree... or vice-versa. I found it easier to use Qt's 'qmake' to create the Makefile and which got rid of a lot of the compile difficulty I was running into. Also, since you're running Ubutnu, you need to install several -dev libraries in order to compile programs, such as libqt4-dev [or libqt3-mt-dev], along with qt4-dev-tools, etc. The development libraries are separated from the rest of the binaries to save space, because most people don't need them -- but you do. And you can install both Qt3 development as well as Qt4 development at the same time, BTW. > 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. I figure I can go back to KDevelop once I have a large enough project that needs a big IDE. Kate can deal with several files at once as well as an overall project, and it's a much lighter interface. However, somehow I found myself longing for working in a text console with colorized code. I tried 'jed' for a bit, which was pretty good but I didn't like the way it wanted to format code it showed, so I ended up back with Nano. I just want something that keeps me working and productive. -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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