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Ship it! ah, beautiful. i -hated- that code in the calendartable, but there wasn't much choice that i could find elsewhere. this is a very nice improvement indeed. - Aaron On 2010-05-20 20:20:08, John Layt wrote: > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: > http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4079/ > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > (Updated 2010-05-20 20:20:08) > > > Review request for Plasma. > > > Summary > ------- > > In SC 4.5 KHolidays has a number of new API calls to provide more metadata on > each Holiday Region, such as Name, Country (including subdivisions such as > States and Provinces) and Language, to test validity of a given Holiday > Region code, and to return all holidays in a date range. > > This patch adapts the plasma calendar data engine and calendar plasmoid to > use this new API to improve efficiency and usability. However, because of > the data engine abstraction layer what is a small and simple change in other > KHolidays clients required major changes in the data engine to basically > recreate and wrap the new KHolidays API calls. As such it could be argued > that this is a new feature rather than just an efficiency and usability fix, > and so has missed the feature freeze boat. I'll leave that call to others, > but if deemed too big I'll try a smaller efficiency fix within the bounds of > the existing data engine API. > > * Efficiency is improved by fetching all the holidays to display in a single > call, rather than 3 calls by the plasmoid and 90 calls by the data engine > (and thus saving reading the holiday file 90 times), and by using the > isValid(regionCode) API instead of fetching all the regions and scanning for > a match. > > * Usability is improved by displaying the real name of the Holiday Region > (e.g. if it's actually a state or province) and the language each Holiday > Region is available in, and by including the language as a criteria in the > default Holiday Region selection so the user is more likely to get a useful > Holiday Region (e.g. in bilingual countries). > > I've also included a few bug fixes and validity checking of the contents of > the data queries. > > > Diffs > ----- > > trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/libs/plasmaclock/calendartable.cpp 1128950 > > trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/dataengines/calendar/calendarengine.h > 1128950 > > trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/dataengines/calendar/calendarengine.cpp > 1128950 > > Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4079/diff > > > Testing > ------- > > Extensive testing using plasmoidviewer, especially of the new default region > algorithm with various combinations of country and language. > > > Thanks, > > John > > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
