On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, January 10, 2013 04:49:15 Aleix Pol wrote: > > Good stuff, I'd say it's really important, I'm really sad for not having > > found the time to push it further. > > that's why there are many of us, of course. :) > > no one person can do more than one person can do. but together we somehow > manage to usually do more than we could have individually ;) > > > Looking forward to your progress, maybe it would be interesting to see > what > > you exactly have in mind there? > > sure... i'm taking this in steps: > > 1: refactor internals (and don't care about breaking the UI in the process) > * the runner manager is held by the QML UI not the krunner C++ code > * API for the C++ to communicate with the QML (class: InterfaceApi) > * KRunnerDialog becomes a Plasma::Dialog > * load QML from Plasma::Packages > > in this first step the following regressions have been incurred: > > * configuration UI is gone > * user switching no longer implemented > * global shortcuts for single runners not registered > * dbus call to list available single runners removed (not sure if this will > come back or not) > * positioning and resizing is a bit funky > > 2. build a minimal ugly UI in QML for purely testing purposes > > 3. address problems shown by these changes > * RunnerModel needs changes for use here > * able to pre-load the runners, so we don't get a delay on > UI show > * able to control the session setup / teardown (right now > it is per > search; for krunner, it should be per window show/hide) > * ?? > * Plasma::Dialog's performance > * moving is no longer smooth > * resizing is a bit broken (doesn't center properly) > > 4. implement a new UI for user switching > * dedicated UI for user switching > * perhaps grey out screen with kwin effect, ala shutdown/logout > dialog > * show all running sessions + button to start a new one > * perhaps a full screen wide strip with this UI centered in it (see > attached horrible drawing. done in krita! :) > > 5. implement an improved config UI > * use QML rather than the KPlugin QWidget list > * integrate per-runner help with this list > * provide a way to switch between different QML UI packages if > more than > one is installed > > 6. create a usable QML UI with an emphasis on elegance. hopefully this > will be > a visual and functional upgrade over the existing UI. it needs to: > * allow queries > * provide UI to access the task manager and configuration > * a gorgeous delegate > * supports keyboard nav, including between per-match > actions > * sorting perference? (e.g. by rank (default), or by > runner?) > * uses same components / presentation as used in similar > lists > elsewhere in Plasma Desktop > * perhaps show favourite / recent searches on show? > > 7. improve the search speed enablers > * better favourite matches algorithm > * better autocompletion suggestion method > > that's where i'm at right now :) some of the steps can easily be done in > parallel, too. e.g. #4, the switch user UI doesn't rely on any other step > and > could be done by anyone feeling like it at any time :) > > -- > Aaron J. Seigo > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > Hmm.. why do you think user switching belongs to KRunner? Did I miss anything? If anything, I'd say it can be a runner, but do we need specific UI for this? >From my perspective the main KRunner UI should be little more than the text input and the list of results... Aleix
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