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Guidelines and HOWTOs

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Development

For development
Guides and HOW TOs for compiling the sources, creating new programs, sending patches,...
For debugging
Guides and HOW TOs to debug applications.
Other
Other guides: Relicensing, Versioning scheme

Internationalization (i18n) Tools

To internationalize
Guides and HOWTOs concerning the internationalization
Quality
Guides and HOWTOs concerning the quality

Helper Tools

Get information about KDE's installation - kde-config
The tool kde-config helps to find out more about a KDE installation.
Driving Konqueror From Scripts - kfmclient
kfmclient is a small tool to communicate with Konqueror.
Updating User Configuration Files - kconf_update
kconf_update is a tool designed to update config files.
svnmerge.py
This tool helps keeping track of merges between different SVN branches
English Breakfast Network - Static Analysis
Krazy - Code Analysis, Usage Tutorial
APIDOX - API Documentation Statistics
Sanitizer - DocBook Checker
Usability Checks

To move here

Applications/Versioning

Further resources