Re: Incubation Request: Kiview

2024-04-29 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 28.04.24 12:22, Méven wrote: Here is an email for incubating a new KDE project: Kiview. Kiview is a simple file previewer written in C++/Qml, from its README: looking through the code there are unfortunately a lot of things one trips over. First and foremost, as others have mentioned

Re: Should we stop distributing source tarballs?

2024-04-06 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 06.04.24 13:07, Marc Deop i Argemí wrote: If you automate things, everything can be reviewed/validated by more than one entity and thus increasing security. The CI can be reviewed and audited but your personal laptop and your workflow cannot. This is basically a discussion about whethe

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-08 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, I think all 3 of us envision very similar things, we just have different things we think/talk about, and different understandings of Nate's suggestion. I for example understood that Nate suggests to make bugs matching the named criteria the *trigger* for making (or discussing) a new relea

Re: New releases for bugfixes

2022-09-07 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 9/7/22 17:28, Harald Sitter wrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2022 at 5:20 PM wrote: In most projects the maintainers who'd make a release decision are the same people who triage bugs You quite clearly have no idea how this community works. I'll thank you not to misdirect discussions. in kate i

Re: Approval request for feature idea

2022-06-01 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 6/1/22 20:41, samuel ammonius wrote: However, I still don't see the point of avoiding QSS because it seems to be able to do everything CSS can (besides transformations, which are the only difference that I've been able to find so far). Sorry but then you're not looking very hard. Look

Re: Fwd: Approval request for feature idea

2022-05-30 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 5/30/22 20:37, samuel ammonius wrote: I've worked with regular CSS and I'm sure that stylesheets offer just as many customization options as things like QtCurve or QStylePlugins. The reason that it may not seem this way is because Qt didn't document regular CSS syntax in the documentati

Re: Fwd: Approval request for feature idea

2022-05-30 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 5/30/22 19:52, samuel ammonius wrote: Adding this feature won't make the C++ styles disappear. It will only make it possible for users who don't know how to make a style plugin in C++ to make their own styles the problem is that the Qt stylesheets are pretty bad at that. The customiza

Re: Genderidentity

2022-01-06 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 1/6/22 18:56, Nicolás Alvarez wrote: There is a time and place to teach kids about the complexity of gender and I don't think an exercise about arithmetic/counting is the right place. Additionally, there is also a time and place to discuss gender identity topics, but the kde-devel mail

Re: KDE Incubator Project Application

2021-11-29 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi Frank, On 11/29/21 10:58, Frank Pereny wrote: > I am interested in bringing my project to the KDE family. I am > requesting a sponsor, please allow me to introduce the project below. thanks for your submission! From a quick glance, here are a few things I spotted: - The application doesn'

Re: Semantic analysis KDevelop

2018-06-14 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, Note: our mailing list is kdeve...@kde.org for user questions, or kdevelop-de...@kde.org for development; kde-devel@kde.org is a more general KDE development list and not for KDevelop specifically. Please direct KDevelop-specific questions to one of these lists. On 06/14/2018 12:40 AM, M

Re: GSoC2018 - Panel Improvement Proposal Idea

2018-03-25 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 03/25/18 14:11, Furkan Tokaç wrote: > For GSoC2018, as a long-term KDE user/lover, I want to make 2 important > improvements on KDE / Plasma-Workspace / Panel that will increase user > experience. Both things sound like worthwhile fixes, but are not suitable as-is for a GSoC propsal. The

Re: Q_ASSERT(!FalseSecurity)

2018-03-10 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 03/10/2018 09:53 AM, Michael Heidelbach wrote: > Am I getting something wrong? Or is > >    "Q_ASSERT(m_writeTrans); > >    m_writeTrans->commit();" > > providing false security? a lot of KDE code is written this way. It will end up crashing in both debug and release, but in debug the m

Re: releaseme new requirement: non-conflicting files on case-insensitive FS/OS

2017-11-21 Thread Sven Brauch
On 21/11/17 03:53, Felix Miata wrote: > Case sensitive filesystems are one of the most annoying things about FOSS. I'd count that as a win. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Do not enforce copy and paste restrictions in Okular

2017-11-12 Thread Sven Brauch
On 12/11/17 11:37, dennis knorr wrote: > This should be at least configurable with a for-user non-changeable > configuration. It's perfectly okay for homeowners to disable > drm-behaviour, but there might be requirements in an enterprise context > where that behaviour is needed. Well, there's a ch

Re: How to start contributing?

2017-09-29 Thread Sven Brauch
On 29/09/17 20:38, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: >> And since when is Scintilla a KDE project? > > Never, as far as I know, but it is open source. It's a bit weird to recommend contributing to this on kde-devel@kde.org, given that KDE has its own text editor component ... signature.asc Description

Re: Continue to develop Simon

2016-12-12 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 12/12/16 05:35, Hui Chen wrote: > I'm a programmer from China. I'm interested in continuing to develop Simon > (maybe as an unofficial version). But I need more > information(speech-recognition basics, outline Simon’s codebase etc.). Can > you help me? Mario said on the forums he'd come ba

Re: How to have apps preserve color/decoration when opened in another WM, like fluxbox or i3?

2016-12-06 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 07/12/16 04:44, David C. Rankin wrote: > and is > there a way to set a default style, (or at least a default color) that is used > by the apps opened outside kde? Application style is controlled by the active Qt platform theme plugin; on plasma, the "kde" plugin is used, and outside plasma

Re: Howto disable kate/kwrite autoindent following if, loop, or open-brace

2016-11-21 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 21/11/16 06:02, David C. Rankin wrote: > How do you disable the automatic indention of the next line after an 'if', > 'for', 'while' or open-brace, etc.. Set the indenter to "normal" instead of cstyle for the kind of document you edit. That one does nothing except keeping the current inde

Re: Dropping kdelibs4-based applications in KDE Applications 17.12

2016-11-16 Thread Sven Brauch
On 11/11/16 16:45, Dominik Haumann wrote: > What do you think about having a Randa meeting (or similar) with focus > on finishing ports to KF5? Would that make sense? +1 actually. There are a few applications on that list which would, in my eyes, be a real loss if they were not maintained any more;

Re: Applications (e.g. kwrite/kate) unstyled when launched outside KDE

2016-11-13 Thread Sven Brauch
On 13/11/16 16:31, David C. Rankin wrote: > Is the lack of window decoration and menu style when applications are > launched via ssh (or from within an alternate desktop, e.g. fluxbox, > XFCE) a limitation of the current theme (Breeze) or is it a limitation > of plasma/kde? Window decoration soun

Re: Howto activate floating search/replace on kate/kwrite, howto execute with keyboard?

2016-11-10 Thread Sven Brauch
Hi, On 11/10/2016 07:59 PM, David C. Rankin wrote: > Now I can't get the replace to work at all without taking my hands off > the keyboard, grabbing the mouse and physically clicking on enter. why not use the Alt+letter accelerators? For me that's Alt+A for replace all. Greetings, Sven sign

Re: [kde-community] Please participate in our survey for input on KDE's Mission

2016-06-29 Thread Sven Brauch
On 28/06/16 23:16, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > It looks like especially WikiToLearn, but also Applications are a bit > underrepresented compared to how many people are contributing to them overall. > > I'm now also sending this to the wikitolearn mailing list (yes, I should have > done that before)