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Kde application framework template quickstart
Author: Thomas Nagy
Date: 2003-06-20
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This README file explains you how to use this application template.


* To distribute your program, try "make dist".
This will make a compact tarball archive of your release with the
necessary scripts inside.

* To clean everything try make distclean

* To build the configure script try make -f Makefile.cvs

* For the translations :
1. Download a patched gettext which can be found at:
 http://public.kde.planetmirror.com/pub/kde/devel/gettext-kde/
2. Install that gettext in ~/bin/
3. cd ~/yourproject, export PATH=~/bin:$PATH, export
KDEDIR=/where_your_KDE3_is
4. make -f admin/Makefile.common package-messages
5. make package-messages
6. Translate the po files (not the pot!!) with kbabel or xemacs


* Build the menus of your application easily
kde applications now use an xml file (*ui.rc file) to build the menus.
This allow a great customization of the application. However, when
programming the menu is shown only after a "make install"

For more details, consult :
http://devel-home.kde.org/~larrosa/tutorial/p9.html
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/xmlui/preface.html


* Modifying the auto-tools scripts
for automake scripts there is an excellent tutorial there :
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/other/makefile_am_howto.html

* Simplify your life : install the project in your home directory for
testing purposes.
./configure --prefix=/home/user/dummyfolder/
In the end when you finished the development you can
rm -rf /home/user/dummyfolder/
without fear.
