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I first used [[Projects/KDE_on_Windows]] but now run Kubuntu as my main operating system.
I first used [[Projects/KDE_on_Windows]] but now run Fedora KDE spin <s>Kubuntu</s> as my main operating system.
I wrote an occasional journal of my adventures in getting Kubuntu working at [http://userbase.kde.org/User:Skierpage userbase.kde.org user page]


I mostly do documentation and support for Semantic MediaWiki, an extension to MediaWiki.
KDE web sites are confused whether I am spage or skierpage.


== Techbase problems and what I'm going to do about them ==
== New cleanup ==
2011-11-14: I'm frustrated as hell trying to figure out a problem with KDE (Strigi not indexing my stuff), and TechBase is ''not'' helping.
I managed to get set up for KDE development in 2020 or so and made a few fixes to Skrooge and Baloo/kfilemetadata. Returning to development in 2022, I found the same confusing mess of links to techbase, userbase, community, develop, etc. pages. So I've started to clean up techbase.


=== Service page problems ===
* https://techbase.kde.org/KDE_Frameworks - is this obsolete now we have
The Nepomuk blog's [http://nepomuk.kde.org/node/2 Documentation] page has a Strigi Service link that goes to [[Development/Tutorials/Metadata/Nepomuk/StrigiService]]
https://develop.kde.org/docs/use/kxmlgui/ (latter URL looks wrong but it's all about KDE Frameworks).
unfortunately this suffers from the same problems as the blog's Documentation page


* BUG: doesn't say where the source is
=== KDEDevelopers group rights needed ===
* BUG: doesn't say where the API is
I can't clean up these pages until I'm added to the [[Special:ListUsers|KDEDevelopers]] group:
* BUG: doesn't say what the service looks like. Is it a process I can look at?  What's the process name
* [[Development/Tools]] - replace bad cgit link with invent.kde.org and lxr.kde.org
* [[Getting Started]] - lots of fixes or delete/archive it
* [[Projects]] - replace bad English Breakfast Network link with CI.


* TODO: techbase needs to have {{tl:source}}, {{tl:api}}, {{tl:processname}} templates for creating links to these, and should have a series of form template that presents this sort of information about a project in an infobox:
== development ==
  <nowiki>{{</nowiki>service| source= | api= | processname= | bugtracker= | kdemodule= | blog= }}
Compare krita-devbox with https://github.com/MarceloHMariano/kde-dev-container


TODO: the split between userbase and techbase is dubious. I'm a user, but I want to go beyond the user documentation. You're just going to duplicate information like the processname, the blog, the bug tracker and the kdemodule in two wikis.
== Old pages ==
 
* [[/old user page]] from 2011 (!!)
BUG: WTF happened to [[Getting Started]]? It used to have "Getting the source", now that's gone!
 
=== Techbase minor bugs ===
BUG: [[Template:Info]] is undocumented!  Use <nowiki><noinclude> </noinclude></nowiki> to document what templates do!
 
BUG: [[Help:Contents]] says to use
  <nowiki><span class="bsBugLink bsError bsError-NoConnection">{{bug|123456}}</span></nowiki>
surely this HTML formatting junk should be part of a template, i.e. {{formatted_bug|xxx}}
 
BUG: Template:Template has a silly confusing warning
"If this page is not already in the "Template" namespace, it should probably be migrated to that location."
 
Instead, someone should just periodically look at [[WhatLinksHere/Template:Template]] and see if pages outside Category:Template are using it.
 
BUG: pull in [[Template:Tl]] from Wikipedia, so that instead of fiddling with <nowiki>{{</nowiki> you can use e.g. {{tl|bug}} to generate a nicely-formatted <nowiki>{{</nowiki>[[Template:bug|bug]]}} which is also a link to a template.
 
BUG: need a template or namespace for linking to Wikipedia. A template could be smart about language.
 
BUG: have a namespace for linking to userbase
 
 
==== Layout bugs ====
BUG: In three-column listings like [[Category:Template]] , the techbase wiki skin makes the listing overlap the right-hand "Share your Knowledge" column.
 
BUG: In revision history the
:Revision as of 21:55, 20 May 2009 by JRT (Talk | contribs)<br />(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
crashes into the light header with [View the content page] [Discussion about the content page] icons.
 
BUG: justified text looks bad in a narrow window.  Allow ragged right column
 
MAYBE: pre text just goes on and on off the right side. Consider using the wrap attribute of pre so that stuff wraps.
 
 
== TechBase problems done ==
* fixed [[Template:Template]] to explain what it does
*

Latest revision as of 09:29, 9 September 2022

I first used Projects/KDE_on_Windows but now run Fedora KDE spin Kubuntu as my main operating system.

KDE web sites are confused whether I am spage or skierpage.

New cleanup

I managed to get set up for KDE development in 2020 or so and made a few fixes to Skrooge and Baloo/kfilemetadata. Returning to development in 2022, I found the same confusing mess of links to techbase, userbase, community, develop, etc. pages. So I've started to clean up techbase.

https://develop.kde.org/docs/use/kxmlgui/ (latter URL looks wrong but it's all about KDE Frameworks).

KDEDevelopers group rights needed

I can't clean up these pages until I'm added to the KDEDevelopers group:

development

Compare krita-devbox with https://github.com/MarceloHMariano/kde-dev-container

Old pages