# Help &krusader;

Here is your opportunity to &contribute-url; to the &krusader; project. There are things that need to be done, but can't be done by us. If you feel you can help, do not hesitate to contact us; every OpenSource can use some help. Please also check the &contribute-url; page on our website for more recent information. Thanks!

Documentation

Help is needed (we are looking for documentation writers) for keeping the &krusader; documentation up to date. The draft explanation of new features is done by the developers on the krusader-devel mailing list, but we need editors to add this information in the handbook. By playing with the new features these editors can give valuable information to the developers for making the new features even better!

&krusader; Extensions

Please upload your favourite extensions at &kde-files-url;, so that they become available for the &krusader; community. Maybe they will be shipped by default with &krusader; at the next release :-)) It features Keymaps, Colormaps, User Actions, JavaScript Extensions.

User Actions can be discussed in our &useractionsforum-url;, please join!

Spread the Word &krusader;

If you like &krusader;, let people know! Write articles and reviews for internet or print publications. Encourage your friends to give &krusader; a try. Participate in forums to help others in the community.

GUI Translations

&krusader; is available in many languages, but usually several translations do need an update and translations to new languages are always welcome, please read the &i18n-page-url; . Even when there is already a translator for your native language, it is always helpful to have a second or third translator ⪚ for proofreading. Sometimes the regular translator is not available when a translation update is needed (studies, holiday...). Please contact the translator/s for your native language; your help will be appreciated. Any translation (even partial translations) are accepted by the &krusader;-Krew at any time (feature freeze or not).

Documentation Translations

This documentation is translatable, if you are interested in translating this documentation please contact Frank.

OpenUsability

Using a program, understanding its interface and getting information out of it, is something that should always be clear in every application - no matter how advanced your understanding of operating systems is or how deep your computer literacy is. For that reason &krusader; asked to be included in the &openusability-url; project.

This project joins the software developers and usability experts in an attempt to check all parts of a user interface for the inappropriate entries. Its main goal is making user interfaces and dialogs understandable and friendly to every user. We need our users comments, your comments, to make things better. In case you find a part of the program's interface to be too complicated, please do help us correct it and make it better.

Donations

Actually, we hadn't considered donations, until users asked us for a way to &donate-url; to the project. &krusader; is, and always will be free, in all the terms of the GNU Public License.

Packagers

We are always in need of packagers for different distro rpm's, deb's, etc. All help is welcome.

Users' feedback for the &krusader; &MacOS; X port

There is a &macosx-port-url; with the help of &fink-url; , the port is maintained by Catalin Hritcu, all feedback is welcome.

Porting &krusader; to &Windows;

&krusader; is written using &TQt; as well as &tde;libs. As long as &tde;libs does not run on &Windows;, porting &krusader; is not an option. However, we do believe that once &Qt;4-GPL is released, efforts will be made to port &kde;libs to &Windows;, and if that happens, we're in business and then we need a maintainer for porting &krusader; to &Windows;.

FAQ

If you have a question that is missing in the &faq-lnk;, we would like to hear it.

Others

Feedback, Bug reports, patches, &etc; are always welcome! An open source project's greatest strength is derived from getting user feedback.

On some websites like &freshmeat-url; or &kde-apps-url; you can give a rate, if you like &krusader; go to one of these sites and rate &krusader;, thanks.