Re: SoK - Plasma mentoring needed

2009-04-22 Thread J. Janz
Hi, Chani, Sorry for that. I assumed that by now proposals were freely viewed (thank God I checked my mail again before bed =) ) ... So, here's an instant carbon copy I just made of it: http://juniorjanz.net/appsholder/gsoc.html (and http://juniorjanz.net/appsholder/ is still up). Thank you, a lo

Re: SoK - Plasma mentoring needed

2009-04-22 Thread Chani
On April 22, 2009 18:33:31 J. Janz wrote: > Hello, people, > > Unfortunately, my proposal [1] couldn't make it to GSoC 2009. However, I what *is* your proposal? only official gsoc mentors can see the ones on the gsoc site. :( -- This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. ww

SoK - Plasma mentoring needed

2009-04-22 Thread J. Janz
Hello, people, Unfortunately, my proposal [1] couldn't make it to GSoC 2009. However, I saw about SoK and had a few words with Lydia and Aaron about it yesterday but I'm healing from a major flu and I'm badly checking my mail right now (like once a day for the past 3 days). Nevertheless, accordin

bug squad hits plasma this weekend

2009-04-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
details on: http://www.confuego.org/archives/19-Bugsquad-Plasma-triage.html i'll be in the channel to help them out when they have questions. feel free to join in. :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer

Re: [Season of KDE/Plasma] Looking for mentor/guidance

2009-04-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Fábio Firmo wrote: > I'm supposed to write a dock for plasma. Altough I think that is possible > to do the work all by myself, some mentoring is certainly welcome. The > amount of time I can spare may be a little shorter (cause I actually have > to try earning some money

[Season of KDE/Plasma] Looking for mentor/guidance

2009-04-22 Thread Fábio Firmo
Hi folks, I couldn't get into GSoC this year, but I still want to do something. I'm supposed to write a dock for plasma. Altough I think that is possible to do the work all by myself, some mentoring is certainly welcome. The amount of time I can spare may be a little shorter (cause I actually hav

Re: Creating Plasma::Containments or Plasma::PopupApplets via the scripting api

2009-04-22 Thread Richard Dale
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Richard Dale wrote: >> then a Plasma::Containment is created for the scripting applet. > > yes; not a well documented feature. > >> We were actually discussing Plasma::PopupApplet, and I wondered if a >> similar a

Re: pardus plasma problems (PPP :P)

2009-04-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > - In 4.2, there's no way to set the wallpaper from outside Plasma. That's > of course more involved, since the wallpaper plugin also needs to be > switched to the image plugin. not necessarily; there's no reason it couldn't be made possible to

Social Computing Reading List

2009-04-22 Thread Celeste Lyn Paul
Hi Everyone, Attached is a Social Computing reading list that was provided by one of the prof's at my Uni. I thought it would be useful for people who are interested in social media. ~ Celeste -- Celeste Lyn Paul KDE Usability Project usability.kde.org 728_Readlinglist_810.pdf Description

Re: Creating Plasma::Containments or Plasma::PopupApplets via the scripting api

2009-04-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 22 April 2009, Richard Dale wrote: > then a Plasma::Containment is created for the scripting applet. yes; not a well documented feature. > We were actually discussing Plasma::PopupApplet, and I wondered if a > similar addition to the Applet::load() code, along with a > 'Plasma/PopupA

Re: pardus plasma problems (PPP :P)

2009-04-22 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Wednesday 22 April 2009 15:21:09 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > - When symlinking /usr/ (for example to /oldusr/), the wallpapers in the > preview drop dropdown show up twice. Any idea what's going on here? This one is likely not plasma specific. It's probably some interaction between KStandardDirs

pardus plasma problems (PPP :P)

2009-04-22 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi Plasmoids, I'm at the office of Pardus Linux right now, and we're going through some issues for the next Pardus release this summer, which is based on KDE 4.2. Some of the issues have already been addressed, others are new. Some advice on where to look and how to address them: Note, this is

Creating Plasma::Containments or Plasma::PopupApplets via the scripting api

2009-04-22 Thread Richard Dale
We've just been discussing scripting applets on #plasma irc channel, and I said that I didn't think it was possible to create types of applets other than Plasma::Applet. Then I went and had a look at the code in plasma/applet.cpp to confirm, and found this: if (!offer->property("X-Plasma-API")