dot.KDE: The People Behind Quanta Plus Apr 23, 2003, 07 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5142 reads)
"2. How was Quanta born? How did you get involved in the project?
"Eric:
"It was early 2000 when I saw an announcement for Quanta on Freshmeat. I had been looking for something more advanced that the EPM editor I was using on OS/2. I looked at Coffee Cup shareware, Visual Slick edit and a bunch of free software. I had quickly come to prefer KDE to GNOME and was looking for a good KDE app. The only half decent one was Webmaker and it lacked a lot. Quanta was version 0.97 or so when I first saw it and it was basically a stripped KDevelop with a KHTML preview. It had no tag dialogs and few useful features but it was cute. I wrote Dima and Alex out of frustration that this program looked so good but didn't satisfy my needs as a web developer. To my surprise they asked me for input and I specified a number of things to make it better. In fact my focus was strictly on what would get the job done the fastest. They had some good ideas too like programmable actions but much of the interface and efficiency was my specification.
"Early in the development they mentioned they would not have access to school computers soon and they lived in a youth hotel in Kiev. I helped them to get into a house with a phone line and later to get them a second computer. I don't think a lot of people realize that despite what we imagine with OSS had I not stepped up at the time Quanta might well have died an early death..."
