On Tuesday 02 December 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hi... > > i'd like to have a tasks widget hacking day.
usually cet evenings i'm around i just touched some parts, so i'm not really familiar with the whole thing, but we can try > the reason for this i that the code is something of a mess internally and > imho it's unmaintainable in its current state. i say this because changing > little things in one place often create rather unexpected results; there's > a good amount of unreachable code; there's what looks to be some pretty > obvious memory leaks (e.g. Tasks::m_groupTaskItems never seems to have > items removed from it!); Tasks does bookkeeping, but for only some things, > and this bookkeeping is controlled from Tasks, LayoutWidget *and* > TaskGroupItem! > > there are bugs that sometimes results in "holes" showing up in the layout, > grouping not working reliably on start up and more. > > if we ship with it like this, we will hate ourselves later. > > unfortunately, i'm not particularly sure what all the reasons and rationals > are for some of the code decisions. > > so if you have been working on the tasks widget in the last month or two, > please respond in this thread with when would be a good time and day for > you so we can get together on irc and sort this thing out. =) _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
