Declarative UI integration v0.2

2009-09-30 Thread Alan Alpert
Hi Plasma Devs, The feedback on this list was of great help in rethinking the design of the Qt Declarative plasma integration. I thought I might spend more time thinking about the design and soliciting feedback before I rush off and implement something this time :). The way we get a QML file l

Re: Forecast-only weather ion

2009-09-30 Thread Shawn Starr
On September 30, 2009 03:14:01 pm Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote: > On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:20:55 Shawn Starr wrote: > > > Unfortunately, wetter.com only provides forecast data through its free > > > web service API, so the Ion actually has no access to current > > > observation data to pro

Re: Applet::init()

2009-09-30 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:36:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On September 30, 2009, David Baron wrote: > > Do ALL of it in background threads. > > Just start, set busy if need be, and exit init(). > > When threads needed for applet functionality are done, reset busy and let > > it play. > > th

Different activities for each desktop KCM

2009-09-30 Thread Marco Martin
Hi all, i noticed in the kwin multiple desktops config there is a checkbox for enabling the different activities for each desktop thing in plasma, but it was a but uuh, fake. this patch enables it, using a new plasma dbus call done for that. Cheers, Marco Martin Index: main.ui =

Re: Extenders

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 30/9-2009 23:24 Hans Chen wrote: > Hi, > > The Plasma notifications are extenders. They're stacked, and if you widgets > are unlocked you can drag them to desktop[1] or stack them with other > extenders[2]. (As you can see in the second screencast, the calender is > also an extender). > > Wi

Re: Extenders

2009-09-30 Thread Hans Chen
Hi, The Plasma notifications are extenders. They're stacked, and if you widgets are unlocked you can drag them to desktop[1] or stack them with other extenders[2]. (As you can see in the second screencast, the calender is also an extender). With best regards, Hans Chen [1] http://userbase.kde.or

Fwd: Re: [kde-promo] Communication of the upcoming Kubuntu Netbook Edition release

2009-09-30 Thread Chani
it seems people like plasma-netbook already :) -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [kde-promo] Communication of the upcoming Kubuntu Netbook Edition release Date: September 29, 2009, 18:30:17 From: Carl Symons To: kde-pr...@kde.org > Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:18:05 -0400 > F

Re: No signals from Plasma.ComboBox?

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 30/9-2009 19:42 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > On September 30, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > > > QObject.connect(self.currency_from,SIGNAL("activated(PyQt_PyObject)"),sel > >f > > have you tried SIGNAL("activated(QString)")? (says the guy who doesn't know > anything about pyqt ;) > I'll try you

Re: Forecast-only weather ion

2009-09-30 Thread Thilo-Alexander Ginkel
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 19:20:55 Shawn Starr wrote: > > Unfortunately, wetter.com only provides forecast data through its free > > web service API, so the Ion actually has no access to current observation > > data to provide to the Weather Plasmoid. AFAICS this results in some ugly > > rende

Re: Extenders

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 30/9-2009 19:20 Marco Martin wrote: > On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > Having read > > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/UsingExtenders I'm > > still a bit baffled as to what Extenders are. > > Am I right to believe that they are what you use when you e

Re: No signals from Plasma.ComboBox?

2009-09-30 Thread Luca Beltrame
In data mercoledì 30 settembre 2009 14:09:52, Thomas Olsen ha scritto: > QObject.connect(self.currency_from,SIGNAL("activated(PyQt_PyObject)"),self > .do_convert_from) In addition to what Aaron said (the signature in quote is not correct), you could also use the new PyQt signal API, which is mo

Re: No signals from Plasma.ComboBox?

2009-09-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 30, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > QObject.connect(self.currency_from,SIGNAL("activated(PyQt_PyObject)"),self have you tried SIGNAL("activated(QString)")? (says the guy who doesn't know anything about pyqt ;) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C

Re: Applet::init()

2009-09-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 30, 2009, David Baron wrote: > Do ALL of it in background threads. > Just start, set busy if need be, and exit init(). > When threads needed for applet functionality are done, reset busy and let > it play. threaded is one possibility; another is to use async methods which many of our

Review Request: support for latex colours in kolorpicker.

2009-09-30 Thread Tomaz Canabrava
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1747/ --- Review request for Plasma and Pino Toscano. Summary --- adds support for la

Re: Qalculate plasmoid in kdeplasma-addons

2009-09-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 30, 2009, Matteo Agostinelli wrote: > Also, I would like to add that this is not meant to be a replacement of the > existing calculator but an optional "enhanced" calculator, since it > requires an additional external dependency (libqalculate). So IMO the > current choice of branding

Re: Forecast-only weather ion

2009-09-30 Thread Shawn Starr
On September 29, 2009 09:14:42 pm Thilo-Alexander Ginkel wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am currently developing a Weather Ion for the German wetter.com weather > data provider to improve the station coverage for Germany, Austria and > Switzerland. > > Unfortunately, wetter.com only provides for

Re: Extenders

2009-09-30 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > Having read > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/UsingExtenders I'm > still a bit baffled as to what Extenders are. > Am I right to believe that they are what you use when you eg. want to have > an icon in the panel that pops u

Extenders

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Olsen
Having read http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/UsingExtenders I'm still a bit baffled as to what Extenders are. Am I right to believe that they are what you use when you eg. want to have an icon in the panel that pops up the plasmoid when clicked upon? -- Best Regards / Med ve

Re: Ayatana notifications for Plasma

2009-09-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 30, 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On September 29, 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > Keep in mind that the > binary is started on demand, so it does not take any memory if you are > not using it (assuming it would automatically stop itself after a

Re: Review Request: adding default colors format for kolourpicker and support for latex colors.

2009-09-30 Thread Pino Toscano
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/1669/#review2508 --- As said also on IRC (after being asked), I'm NOT ok with the all patch

Re: Remote widgets, the next steps

2009-09-30 Thread Fabrizio Montesi
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM, Rob Scheepmaker < r.scheepma...@student.utwente.nl> wrote: > Cool, I'll append some more information to the remote widgets design doc > when > I've got the time. > Great, thanks. > > > Also, publishing > > > > > a Plasma::Service using a different technology (li

Re: No signals from Plasma.ComboBox?

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 30/9-2009 14:43 Marco Martin wrote: > On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > def do_convert_from(currency_from): > > print "Convert from:" + currency_from > > BTW: I forgot a basic Python rule and add "self" as an argument to class methods :-/ It should naturally

Re: Remote widgets, the next steps

2009-09-30 Thread Rob Scheepmaker
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 18:04:07 Fabrizio Montesi wrote: > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Rob Scheepmaker < > > r.scheepma...@student.utwente.nl> wrote: > > I never really considered the case of implementing a native > > Plasma::Services > > in jolie script since that could get a bit compli

Re: No signals from Plasma.ComboBox?

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 30/9-2009 14:43 Marco Martin wrote: > On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > I'm trying to connect the activated or textChanged from a Plasma.ComboBox > > signal to a Python function but nothing seems to happen. This is what > > I've tried inside my init() function (most is sn

Re: No signals from Plasma.ComboBox?

2009-09-30 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > Hi > > Firstly, it has been *AGES* since I've coded Qt/KDE and this is my first > endeavor into Plasma so I'll probably be sending a lot of newbie questions, > but I'll promise that I'll do my best to google for the answers first. > > I'm trying

No signals from Plasma.ComboBox?

2009-09-30 Thread Thomas Olsen
Hi Firstly, it has been *AGES* since I've coded Qt/KDE and this is my first endeavor into Plasma so I'll probably be sending a lot of newbie questions, but I'll promise that I'll do my best to google for the answers first. I'm trying to connect the activated or textChanged from a Plasma.ComboB

Re: Qalculate plasmoid in kdeplasma-addons

2009-09-30 Thread Matteo Agostinelli
On Friday 25 September 2009 11:09:44 Matteo Agostinelli wrote: > On Friday 25 September 2009 11:04:25 John Tapsell wrote: > > 2009/9/25 Matteo Agostinelli : > > > Hi all, > > > > > > the qalculate plasmoid (advanced calculator that uses libqalculate) has > > > spent quite some time on kdereview and

Re: Review Request: taskmanager library: Manual Sorting Fix

2009-09-30 Thread Christian Mollekopf
On Wednesday 30 September 2009 01:35:41 j...@progsoc.org wrote: > > On 2009-09-04 20:16:52, Aaron Seigo wrote: > > > this results in a "leak" in that every window ever created will have an > > > item that stays forever, no? shouldn't it only keep track of winIds > > > that still exist, and do so in

Re: Ayatana notifications for Plasma

2009-09-30 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On September 29, 2009, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: Keep in mind that the binary is started on demand, so it does not take any memory if you are not using it (assuming it would automatically stop itself after a while). >>> Same goes for applets, dataengines...

Applet::init()

2009-09-30 Thread David Baron
Apparently, plasma will wait until all of these are done before displaying anything (correct me if I am wrong). So any applet that checks unmounted/unmountable media, unconnected network connections, loads large data sets, etc., will make plasma wait and wait unless ... Do ALL of it in backgrou