From ec9ca95486aba689e59a86d13d36ec970870a712 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vedran Ljubovic Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:59:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Commit README.alpha --- README.alpha | 81 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 81 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.alpha diff --git a/README.alpha b/README.alpha new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3081fd0 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.alpha @@ -0,0 +1,81 @@ +README for EDE 2.0 pre-alpha +============================ + +($Id$) + +Please read this document before using or contributing to EDE 2.0 source code +before or during 2.0alpha release. + + +BUILD REQUIREMENTS + +EDE 2.0 is using fltk2 toolkit which is not officially released yet. Lately +fltk2 has been pretty stable, so you should be able to use any reasonably +fresh SVN snapshot from www.fltk.org. Nevertheless, we keep our own "fork" +called fltk-copy which is basically the last SVN snapshot that EDE is known +to work with. If there are any patches required for proper EDE functioning, +you should find them in fltk-copy tree. Further instructions are in +fltk-copy/README.ede + + +COMPILING + +At the moment, certain modules in EDE do not compile! In order to build and install +EDE do the following + + autoconf + ./configure [OPTIONS] (we suggest using --enable-debug) + cd edelib2; make; cd .. + +Then go into directories of individual modules and compile them. Type + + cd $MODULE; make; make install; cd .. + + +STUFF THAT DOESN'T COMPILE + +- edewm +- eiconman +- eworkpanel +We are in the process of rewriting these modules from scratch. Please use edewm, +eiconman and eworkpanel from EDE 1.x (it should work without major problems). + +- efinder +It will be ported to fltk2 as soon as we finish efiler (see below) cause we +would like to use same widgets for displaying file list. + +- emenueditor +It will either be completely rewritten or removed, because EDE 2 will use XDG menus +(FreeDesktop.org). + + +NEW MODULES IN EDE 2.0 + +- edialog +Command line utility for displaying dialogs (useful for scripting). It is very +UNFINISHED. + +- efiler +Small file manager. Currently you can only view files but not copy/rename/delete +etc. + +- eimage +Small image viewer. It should be fully usable but still some bugs present. + + +CONTRIBUTORS WANTED + +We would very appreciate help from contributors willing to take any of following +tasks: + + - Complete edialog and become its maintainer + - Port efinder to fltk2/edelib2 and become its maintainer + - Write new enotepad using editor from fltk/test (I believe this is easier than +porting old enotepad to fltk2/edelib2) and become its maintainer + - Propose new designs for econtrol and eworkpanel (that are realistic to implement +with fltk, ofcourse :) + - Find any old ede application, port to fltk2/edelib2 and become its maintainer + - Find useful fltk2 apps on www.fltk.org and see if they can be ede-ified + +Also, EDE code is sparkled with comments starting with TODO and FIXME - please see +what of that you can do. EDE coding standards and EDE HIG documents are being prepared. \ No newline at end of file