The new website for kde developement information was deployed during the Akademy and contains many information about building awesome stuff using KDE tools and large collection of Qt based libraries.

The long term goal of this new website is to increase the first and third parties use of the KDE Frameworks and development tools. To achieve this goal, this website will provide high quality and complete documentation about the usage of the KDE Frameworks and other libraries (a quite ambitious goal I know), but also provide marketting content for the libraries to offer them a bigger visibility in the internet.

The more short term and more realistic goal is to import the existing tutorials available from various places (techbase, the framework book, the plasma mobile docs and other more hidden places. And more importantly while importing the content, also update and improve it and allow other in the community to review the content for correctness. Another big task is to better organize the content in logical sections.

Behind the scene

The website is powered by the Hugo static site generator and by a fork of the docsy theme. The modifications to the theme are the support of gitlab web editor, the integration of KDE branding and support of linking to api.kde.org class and function with macros. In term of design, I’m not entirely satisfied yet but for a first it’s good enough and because I know developers like dark themes, the website also supports a dark via prefers-color-scheme: dark.

All these changes allow us to provide a custom website tailored to our needs (git based code review, web interface to edit the page if needed, custom design, api.kde.org integration and good separation between the content and the layout of the page).

Future planned improvements to the infrastructure are:

• Add a .gitlab-ci.yml to test most of the code examples, to make sure the code examples still compiles and there is no regressions.

Get Involved

You can find many tasks in Invent, porting old tutorials and improving them can be a good way to learn them or better understand them.

You can also review open merge requests and look if the information are correct.

Thanks to (in no particular order) Paul Brow, Suraj Kumar Mahto, Tobias Fella, David Barchiesi, Han Young, Jonah Brüchert, Nicolas Fella, Nate Graham, Cyril Rossi, Ahmad Samir and Kevin Ottens for their help contributing new content or/and reviewing open merge requests.