On Saturday 22 Nov 2003 11:42 pm, Varol Okan wrote: > Jason, > > thank you for your reply. > > Info : > SuSE puts kde under /opt/kde3/ (for now). I have set the KDEDIR and > used the --prefix option. Unfortunately I still have the same issue that > the menu items do not show up.
Make sure that there is no kdenliveui.rc file in ~/.kde/share/apps/kdenlive. I believe that changing the keyboard shortcuts and similar things can cause this file to appear. Other than that, I cannot think of anything that can cause it other than the installation files being installed in the wrong directory. > Development : > I saw the targets on the program versions to come. Is there anything > like a time line attached to those deliveries ? Also is there a doc > (somewhere between developer and user guide) that explains the > connections between piave and kdenlive ? Piave seems to be the kernel > and maybe people would like to make some add ons in functionality (like > splitting sound and video and using both independantly) I tried to put dates on the targets in the past, but it does very much depend on how much spare time Rolf and I have. Every time I have tried to estimate in the past, I have always got it completely wrong :-) So I prefer to simply say "when it is ready" these days. The roadmap is still sort-of correct, although I need to update it to reflect the new priorities that we have put on different features now : for instance, it is likely that the ability to manipulate video and audio separately will appear before the effects framework is finished. There is a brief description of the roles of Piave and Kdenlive at the beginning of the cutting list specification document here : http://www.uchian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kdenlive_documentation.html But I can summarise for you here. Piave is the video renderer/player. It performs all of the tasks that require manipulation of video data - so it plays video files, it can accept a "cutting list" with details on how to render several video files together, it handles effects, it figures out how long a video file is and what format it is in, etc. Kdenlive is a video editing user interface. It handles the graphical representation of the project you ware working on, for instance the timeline that piave renders. It handles saving and loading, and any project management that is required, and provides (or rather, will provide) the dialogs through which you define the effects that piave will use. Kdenlive does no video processing itself, it offloads everything onto piave. Kdenlive and Piave then communicate to each other through a reasonably simple XML interface.
