Re: dict plasma applet

2008-11-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday 09 November 2008, Zack Rusin wrote: > On Sunday 09 November 2008 19:26:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Sunday 09 November 2008, Thomas Georgiou wrote: > > > dictionary engine that is independent of the underlying source (now > > > that i look at it, star dict looks very nice) that applets

Re: dict plasma applet

2008-11-09 Thread Zack Rusin
On Sunday 09 November 2008 19:26:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday 09 November 2008, Thomas Georgiou wrote: > > dictionary engine that is independent of the underlying source (now > > that i look at it, star dict looks very nice) that applets can just > > use. > > right. > > > Shouldn't dictiona

Re: dict plasma applet

2008-11-09 Thread Nick Shaforostoff
> the question you need to answer is: "Am I creating a web dictionary engine, > a stardict engine, etc. or am I creating an engine that returns > the meaning of words?" thanks, you've convinced me. What I will do now is just turn dict dataengine into wrapper around qstardict plugins: in addition t

Re: dict plasma applet

2008-11-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday 09 November 2008, Thomas Georgiou wrote: > dictionary engine that is independent of the underlying source (now > that i look at it, star dict looks very nice) that applets can just > use. right. > Shouldn't dictionary services be integrated into Sonnet though? sonnet is about spell che

Re: dict plasma applet

2008-11-09 Thread Thomas Georgiou
I haven't had time to work on dict for a while, but i should have some time later this week to review the design. The design right now is as a dict protocol engine (RFC ). Ideally, there should be a dictionary engine that is independent of the underlying source (now that i look at it, star di

Re: dict plasma applet

2008-11-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday 09 November 2008, Nick Shaforostoff wrote: > > don't design from the "dataengine implementation details" POV, > > but from the applet writer's POV. > > and what's the application of this rule in our case? > what's your design suggestion? > i can see no other ways of advanced interaction w

Re: Amarok 2 containment positioning problems

2008-11-09 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 09 November 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday 09 November 2008, Mark Kretschmann wrote: > > since bumping libplasma in Amarok recently we have been experiencing > > problems with our containment layout. The problem becomes visible if > > you zoom out of the containment: Instead of a

Re: dict plasma applet

2008-11-09 Thread Nick Shaforostoff
> don't design from the "dataengine implementation details" POV, > but from the applet writer's POV. and what's the application of this rule in our case? what's your design suggestion? i can see no other ways of advanced interaction with dataengine aside from Plasma::Service > i can see it making

Re: dict plasma applet

2008-11-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday 09 November 2008, Nick Shaforostoff wrote: > > would make most sense, obviously, if they were all in the same > > dataengine. > > Why? Plasma-related code is only 100 lines. so that plasmoids could deal with one engine only. engines are about agregation as well as uniform API. > On the

Re: Review Request: discard cache on theme update

2008-11-09 Thread Aaron Seigo
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/265/#review259 --- Ship it! this is good imo. we can even force updates this way by

Re: Amarok 2 containment positioning problems

2008-11-09 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday 09 November 2008, Mark Kretschmann wrote: > since bumping libplasma in Amarok recently we have been experiencing > problems with our containment layout. The problem becomes visible if > you zoom out of the containment: Instead of a grid of 2x2, Amarok now > shows all containments in one r

A toolbox is a toolbox

2008-11-09 Thread Michael Rudolph
Hello everyone, I just stumbled across this on gizmodo and wanted to share it with you: http://gizmodo.com/5080163/what-photoshop-would-look-like-in-real-life The idea is really amazing. I think occasionally reflecting upon the relation of real world tools and the metaphors we use in user interfa

Re: dict plasma applet

2008-11-09 Thread Nick Shaforostoff
> would make most sense, obviously, if they were all in the same dataengine. Why? Plasma-related code is only 100 lines. On the other hand, multitran dataengine requires linking to external libraries (their size is several megs) Of course, this could be solved by having plugins loaded on demand, an

Amarok 2 containment positioning problems

2008-11-09 Thread Mark Kretschmann
Hey Plasmoids, since bumping libplasma in Amarok recently we have been experiencing problems with our containment layout. The problem becomes visible if you zoom out of the containment: Instead of a grid of 2x2, Amarok now shows all containments in one row, which hides some of the containments due

Review Request: discard cache on theme update

2008-11-09 Thread Marco Martin
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/265/ --- Review request for Plasma. Summary --- This micro patch make expire th