Re: Plasma Media Center and state machines

2010-04-01 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
(My ideas, be free to kick ;) Hi Christophe, now I'm able to understand most of what you've proposed. Somehow, I don't like having just one state machine for the whole MC, the main reason being that we're going to support extensibility through custom plugins, so the MC can no longer assume that it

Re: global menu bar for gsoc

2010-04-01 Thread Ryan Rix
On Thu 1 April 2010 3:04:18 pm Marco Martin wrote: > gnome has a dbus spec for > that iirc http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/wiki/GlobalMenuSpecification ? afaict, that's the "official" globalmenu applet for GNOME. See also, a fairly old blog post explaining all of the global menu what

Re: Containment view

2010-04-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: > >> >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> >

Review Request: Plasma::DialogManager

2010-04-01 Thread Marco Martin
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3474/ --- Review request for Plasma. Summary --- this is the DialogManager class, as

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Björn Ruberg
> I have to check the difference between "Monitor", "Screen", "Display" and > "Head" or are those actually the same thing ? "Monitor", "Display" and "Head" are probably the same - in Kephal they are named as "Output". "Screen" ist actually something different. A screen can have several outputs

Re: Containment view

2010-04-01 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: >> >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> >> > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: >> >> >>

Re: Review Request: [Quicklaunch] Refactoring, layout fixes and a drag & drop marker.

2010-04-01 Thread Ingomar Wesp
> On 2010-04-01 21:18:42, Lukas Appelhans wrote: > > All in all it looks good to me... I haven't tested it, but I found a pair > > of issues... > > > > Thanks, > > > > Lukas Thanks for having a look :) > On 2010-04-01 21:18:42, Lukas Appelhans wrote: > > /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/

Re: global menu bar for gsoc

2010-04-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 01 April 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On April 1, 2010, Ivan Ruchkin wrote: > > > > > > > > of the menubar directly inside it, and it would arrange other > > > > > plasmoids around it. this means that the menubar itself wouldn't be > > > > > so much a separate plasmoid > > > > > as it

Re: Containment view

2010-04-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: > >> >> the best way to go about getting help on this matter. Should

Re: global menu bar for gsoc

2010-04-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On April 1, 2010, Ivan Ruchkin wrote: > 2010/3/31 Aaron J. Seigo > > > On March 30, 2010, Ivan Ruchkin wrote: > > > 2010/3/29 Aaron J. Seigo > > > > > > > On March 28, 2010, you wrote: > > > > > My name is Ivan, I'd like to improve global Mac-OS style menu bar > > > > > as > > > > my > > > >

Re: Review Request: Prefetching in Comic Strip plasmoid

2010-04-01 Thread Matthias Fuchs
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/2636/#review4848 --- Ship it! Ok, I tried it now and it works great! Fantastic addition, r

Re: Review Request: [Quicklaunch] Refactoring, layout fixes and a drag & drop marker.

2010-04-01 Thread Lukas Appelhans
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3358/#review4843 --- All in all it looks good to me... I haven't tested it, but I found a p

Re: global menu bar for gsoc

2010-04-01 Thread Ivan Ruchkin
2010/3/31 Aaron J. Seigo > On March 30, 2010, Ivan Ruchkin wrote: > > 2010/3/29 Aaron J. Seigo > > > > > On March 28, 2010, you wrote: > > > > My name is Ivan, I'd like to improve global Mac-OS style menu bar as > my > > > > GSoC project. > > > > Can you please point me to the development code o

Re: Plasma Media Center and state machines

2010-04-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On April 1, 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > >> sliderMusicModeSeek; > >> iconSlideshow; > >> iconRotateCW; > >> iconRotateCCW; > > > > would these rotation ones belong to the image browser, and be provided as > > "custom" elements rather than named elements in the main enum? > >

Re: Containment view

2010-04-01 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: >> >> the best way to go about getting help on this matter.  Should I attach >> >> the crash report to an email

Re: Containment view

2010-04-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: > >> the best way to go about getting help on this matter. Should I attach > >> the crash report to an email? > > > > yes > > Here it is. it's a bug and crash in Qt.

Re: Plasma Media Center and state machines

2010-04-01 Thread Christophe Olinger
Replies inline, Adapted workflow at the end of this message. (I think its almost time to start coding this) On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Christophe Olinger wrote: > From Aaron: > >> //This class knows about things that are important for every toplevel >> thing needed in the MediaCenter like

Re: Review Request: [Quicklaunch] Refactoring, layout fixes and a drag & drop marker.

2010-04-01 Thread Ingomar Wesp
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3358/ --- (Updated 2010-04-01 20:01:41.294461) Review request for Plasma. Changes --

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Detlev Casanova
On Thursday 01 April 2010 20:15:40 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On April 1, 2010, Will Stephenson wrote: > > Aaron, do you think there's another GSoC project in completing Kephal? > > yes, particularly on the storing / restoring of configurations and > integrating it with the existing UI elements (devi

Re: Containment view

2010-04-01 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: >> the best way to go about getting help on this matter.  Should I attach >> the crash report to an email? > > yes Here it is. -Todd containmentviewer-20100401-153632.kcrash Des

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Detlev Casanova
On Thursday 01 April 2010 18:40:12 Björn Ruberg wrote: > Hello, > > I fully agree with Detlev's points. The multiscreen management is very bad > in KDE currently, although in KDE 4.4 it is a little better than in KDE > 4.3. Every time I want to plug a beamer to my laptop in university I have > to

Re: Containment view

2010-04-01 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Guillaume DE BURE wrote: > Le jeudi 01 avril 2010 20:19:30, todd rme a écrit : >> As discussed earlier, I am working on the containment viewer >> application, which will allow people to test-run containments in a >> similar manner to the plasmoid viewer. > > I am ve

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Detlev Casanova
On Thursday 01 April 2010 18:13:09 Will Stephenson wrote: > On Thursday 01 April 2010 16:35:59 Detlev Casanova wrote: > > I'd like to work with you this summer (and even longer after that :-) ). > > So, there's something in KDE that I find not really nice, It's the > > multiscreen management. > > F

Re: Containment view

2010-04-01 Thread Guillaume DE BURE
Le jeudi 01 avril 2010 20:19:30, todd rme a écrit : > As discussed earlier, I am working on the containment viewer > application, which will allow people to test-run containments in a > similar manner to the plasmoid viewer. I am very interested by this, it might prove very useful for Skrooge (See

Re: Containment view

2010-04-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On April 1, 2010, todd rme wrote: > the best way to go about getting help on this matter. Should I attach > the crash report to an email? yes > Just attach the whole source code to an email? no; that's what svn is for :) > Put some particular snipets in the body of an email? Meet at > some

Containment view

2010-04-01 Thread todd rme
As discussed earlier, I am working on the containment viewer application, which will allow people to test-run containments in a similar manner to the plasmoid viewer. It already supports changing the size of the containment, both with a hard-coded list of common screen resolutions and the ability

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On April 1, 2010, Asraniel wrote: > Hei, i would just like to add my support for that idea, because as of kde > 4.4, my second screen has no more wallpaper (plasma) and if i set dual head? or is the second screen just not being seen at all? can you provide some debug output from plasma-desktop re

Re: Plasma Media Center and state machines

2010-04-01 Thread Christophe Olinger
>From Aaron: > //This class knows about things that are important for every toplevel > thing needed in the MediaCenter like > MediaType for example > > enum State { > BrowseVideos; > PlayVideos; > PlayMusic; > MusicVisualizations; > BrowsePictures; > SinglePictures; >

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On April 1, 2010, Will Stephenson wrote: > Aaron, do you think there's another GSoC project in completing Kephal? yes, particularly on the storing / restoring of configurations and integrating it with the existing UI elements (device notifier and providing a more user- friendly alternative to the

Re: Calculator

2010-04-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On April 1, 2010, you wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently working on improving the calculator runner, by adding an > optional dependency on libqalculate. If the library is found, the > calculator runner will be built against libqalculate and it will support > "advanced" operations (such as currency co

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Chani
On April 1, 2010 09:40:12 Björn Ruberg wrote: > Hello, > > I fully agree with Detlev's points. The multiscreen management is very bad > in KDE currently, although in KDE 4.4 it is a little better than in KDE > 4.3. Every time I want to plug a beamer to my laptop in university I have > to fight up

Plasma Media Center and state machines

2010-04-01 Thread Christophe Olinger
Hallo everybody, Since I am still realy new to Qt, plasma and KDE, I made a small draft of how I would imagine handling implemeting state machines in the PMC code. Please feel very free on adding and commenting ideas, and pointing out stupid things. Marco and Aaron were already so nice to give me

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Björn Ruberg
Hello, I fully agree with Detlev's points. The multiscreen management is very bad in KDE currently, although in KDE 4.4 it is a little better than in KDE 4.3. Every time I want to plug a beamer to my laptop in university I have to fight up to one minute getting every thing correct - and the oth

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Asraniel
Hei, i would just like to add my support for that idea, because as of kde 4.4, my second screen has no more wallpaper (plasma) and if i set dragonplayer to fullscreen on it, it goes to the first screen (kwin?). this is sadly with the nvidia driver. It would be great to have a more robust multis

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Will Stephenson
On Thursday 01 April 2010 16:35:59 Detlev Casanova wrote: > I'd like to work with you this summer (and even longer after that :-) ). > So, there's something in KDE that I find not really nice, It's the > multiscreen management. > For instance, I have an extra monitor for my laptop which I use every

Re: GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread todd rme
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Detlev Casanova wrote: > So, my point is : there are problems. > So far, what's the link with plasma you might ask. Well, I'd like the device > notifier to react when a monitor is plugged in, showing the screen. 2 actions > should be possible : Auto configure and m

GSoC : Multiscreen management

2010-04-01 Thread Detlev Casanova
Hello folks ! I'd like to work with you this summer (and even longer after that :-) ). So, there's something in KDE that I find not really nice, It's the multiscreen management. For instance, I have an extra monitor for my laptop which I use every day but I also unplug it every day. The problem

Calculator

2010-04-01 Thread Matteo Agostinelli
Hi, I am currently working on improving the calculator runner, by adding an optional dependency on libqalculate. If the library is found, the calculator runner will be built against libqalculate and it will support "advanced" operations (such as currency conversion, unit conversion, equation so