The K Desktop Environment

1.3. History

Torben Weis wrote a perl script that proved how simple it was to parse the KDE Library headers to generate documentation that looked like the Qt documentation.

Sirtaj Singh Kang took it upon himself to extend this program to turn it into a full-fledged application. He found out the hard way that while it takes 10% effort to parse 75% of source, the next 10% takes another 100%.

KDOC 1.0 still used some of Torben's source, but never really worked properly but was useful enough for a year or so.

KDOC 2.0 is a complete rewrite of KDOC, and is much more extensible and robust, even though it has scores of new features that were impossible to put into 1.0.