Re: Review Request 124954: Add support for modifier only shortcuts on Wayland

2015-09-04 Thread Hans Chen
utilize kglobalaccel (collision check mechanism) > - leave the entire thing unconfigurable (where the user cannot control > which runner he gets for the shortcut) > > => are multiple bindings really an expectable problem? > And if they are, doesn't that im

Re: Review Request 124954: Add support for modifier only shortcuts on Wayland

2015-08-31 Thread Hans Chen
utilize kglobalaccel (collision check mechanism) > - leave the entire thing unconfigurable (where the user cannot control > which runner he gets for the shortcut) > > => are multiple bindings really an expectable problem? > And if they are, doesn't that im

Re: Review Request 124954: Add support for modifier only shortcuts on Wayland

2015-08-30 Thread Hans Chen
This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124954/#review84486 --- On Aug. 27, 2015, 4:04 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > -

Re: Runners KCM

2014-07-04 Thread Hans Chen
t sounds like a really good solution to me! > On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Thursday 03 July 2014, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > >> On Monday 30 June 2014 11:25:09 Hans Chen wrote: > >> > Ah yes, just included it to have a complete l

Re: Runners KCM

2014-07-03 Thread Hans Chen
As far as I know the "Task Oriented" option got removed (unmaintained). Not sure about free floating. On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Monday 30 June 2014 11:25:09 Hans Chen wrote: > > Ah yes, just included it to have a complete list of widgets in

Re: Runners KCM

2014-06-30 Thread Hans Chen
On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > No, it's a separate KCM. The current idea is to name the Baloo KCM "Search > Backend" and the KRunner KCM "Plasma Search". > That is good news, thanks for clarifying that! On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > We

Re: Runners KCM

2014-06-30 Thread Hans Chen
Was it decided that KRunner will be used as the default search interface in Plasma 5? I personally still think that it's misleading to use the term "search" when referring to KRunner. Sure, it does search for some things, but to me it's defined by the actions it can perform, and those are not rest

Re: RFC - Removing System Bell KCM

2014-05-14 Thread Hans Chen
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 12 May 2014, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > I don't think it's something relevant anymore, and I'm not entirely > > > convinced this code even works. > > > > I thought it's still used by the accessibility code. If that's not the > > ca

Re: Just a screenshot of Plasma Next so far

2014-05-11 Thread Hans Chen
On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Mark Gaiser wrote: > Would it be possible to make that a bit more subtje? Right now easily > notice the blue border while it serves no real function. Sure, it > tells me that the white rectangle has focus, but that is only valuable > information if you can have mu

Re: Review Request 117450: Add Milou to the default panel layout

2014-04-13 Thread Hans Chen
I personally don't think that the overlap is too big. The way I see it: a) Kickoff: The application launcher, so its primary purpose is to launch applications. The search bar should be used to filter the "contents" of Kickoff, i.e., find items that you would normally find in Kickoff. (I know that

Re: Confused on Activities' behaviour in concert with browsers

2012-12-06 Thread Hans Chen
Hi Antonis, This sounds like a question about Rekonq rather than Plasma, in particular its implementation of activities. You will probably receive a better answer if you post a topic at http://forum.kde.org or ask the Rekonq developers directly. Here are some ways to contact them: http://userbase.

Re: Hiding the cashew

2012-06-30 Thread Hans Chen
Hi, You can use this plasmoid to make the cashew completely transparent on all containments: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Stealth+Cashew?content=108460 FWIW, I always hide the cashew for aesthetic reasons. With best regards, Hans On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Sebastian Kügler wrote

New location of Plasma Active forum

2012-03-14 Thread Hans Chen
Hi, Just a heads up - we've made some minor modifications to the forum structure at forum.kde.org and the Plasma Active forum has been moved to the Workspace subforum . Note that the forum URL stays the same, so there shouldn't be any broken links. Please

Re: Recently Used engine?

2012-02-20 Thread Hans Chen
Hi, This sounds like the type of thing Zeitgeist was created for, and a Zeitgeist dataengine would be nice I think. However, I have no idea about the current status of integrating with KDE workspaces, I guess Ivan knows more. With best regards, Hans On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:47, Martin Gräßlin

Re: can buttons know what happens to programs they launch?

2012-02-07 Thread Hans Chen
You may want to take a look at KProcess: http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdecore/html/classKProcess.html For example, here's a Python plasmoid that uses it: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Redshift+plasmoid?content=148737 With best regards, Hans Chen On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at

Re: py-weather

2012-02-02 Thread Hans Chen
If the license permits and you care about the widget, you could always fork it. With best regrets, Hans On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 14:54, deb-account wrote: > On 02/02/12 11:53, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > >> >> I really can't do anything useful with this file. Look on kde-look.orgfor its >> author,

Re: Re: Re: [RFC] Remove Xinerama related options

2012-01-20 Thread Hans Chen
While we're talking about confusing options in System Settings, I've always wondered why there are two Xinerama options in Window Behavior (Focus tab) - "Separate screen focus" and "Active screen follows mouse". In particular, how does the latter work together with "Show unmanaged windows on"? Tho

Re: Breadcrumbs in Kickoff

2011-12-21 Thread Hans Chen
Xavier, while I also want the back button back, it seems to me that you miss several important points: As for the notion that most prominent KDE apps don't possess back buttons, > there are actually quite a few examples, such as Konqueror/Rekonq, the > "System Settings" application, and Dolphin. >

Re: Extenders in libplasma2 (or.. not)

2011-11-16 Thread Hans Chen
>From a user's POV, I second what Ivan wrote. I still think it was a neat idea but there were several reasons why I didn't use extenders: 1. Crash-prone. Plasma would often crash when playing around with them (the Extender section in Plasma HowTo was, hands down, the hardest section to record due

Re: Small improvement regarding activity icons, suggestions needed

2011-11-10 Thread Hans Chen
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 19:05, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > akonadi is not where to look for these kinds of things. in the > notifications > we try (though people keep sneaking "nepomuk" back in) to just refer to it > as > "desktop search" > OK, that's what I'll use then. I can see why people want to

Re: Small improvement regarding activity icons, suggestions needed

2011-11-09 Thread Hans Chen
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 16:39, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > fine idea, except please don't use "Nepomuk Semantic Desktop" in the text. > perhaps ... "The Desktop Search framework must be enabled ..." > I used "Nepomuk Semantic Desktop" because that's what it says in System Settings; I don't like the t

Small improvement regarding activity icons, suggestions needed

2011-11-09 Thread Hans Chen
think of this, and if there are any more elegant solutions. Suggestions for the text in the tooltip are also much appreciated. So, string freeze is tomorrow? Oops. With best regards, Hans Chen ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: Review Request: KMenuEdit: Decrease icon size in the General tab to make the icon button look like a button

2011-11-05 Thread Hans Chen
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103051/#review7968 --- On Nov. 5, 2011, 12:06 a.m., Hans Chen wrote: > > --- > T

Re: Review Request: KMenuEdit: Decrease icon size in the General tab to make the icon button look like a button

2011-11-05 Thread Hans Chen
ally generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103051/#review7965 ------- On Nov. 5, 2011, 12:06 a.m., Hans Chen wrote: > > --- > This is an au

Re: Review Request: KMenuEdit: Decrease icon size in the General tab to make the icon button look like a button

2011-11-05 Thread Hans Chen
ygen style. Screenshots --- Difference: Before vs After http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103051/s/323/ Thanks, Hans Chen ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: Review Request: KMenuEdit: Decrease icon size in the General tab to make the icon button look like a button

2011-11-05 Thread Hans Chen
don't have a commit account so I would appreciate if someone could help me to commit it if it's approved. - Hans Chen On Nov. 5, 2011, 12:03 a.m., Hans Chen wrote: > > --- > This is an automatically generated e-mail. To r

Re: Review Request: KMenuEdit: Decrease icon size in the General tab to make the icon button look like a button

2011-11-05 Thread Hans Chen
ygen style. Screenshots --- Difference: Before vs After http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103051/s/323/ Thanks, Hans Chen ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Review Request: KMenuEdit: Decrease icon size in the General tab to make the icon button look like a button

2011-11-05 Thread Hans Chen
Before vs After http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103051/s/323/ Thanks, Hans Chen ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: The future of virtual desktops

2011-02-25 Thread Hans Chen
what. These are just some of my thoughts on the subject. In order to improve the whole workspace experience, I think it's important that we discuss how different things should work together and that we think about the bigger picture. With best regards, Hans Chen _

The future of virtual desktops

2011-02-24 Thread Hans Chen
räßlin reads this list. With best regards, Hans Chen -- [1] http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea93689_page1 [2] http://hanschen.org/2011/02/04/activities-a-change-in-workflow/#comment-1316 ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kd

Re: Help me use "plasma activities". Or at least understand.

2010-03-02 Thread Hans Chen
ntinue to ask in the forums, and if you aren't happy with the answers, ask follow-up questions. With best regards, Hans Chen On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 20:11, Luiz Felipe Talvik wrote: > "a power user such as" myself is feeling a little bit of hostility, > maybe it's just my i

Re: Plasma and newcomers

2010-02-15 Thread Hans Chen
so find me on freenode, nick Mogger). With best regards, Hans Chen On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 22:43, Sean wrote: > > Just an update. I've updated the images on http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/ > > I've used my points I suggested and the images are up to date and > co

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread Hans Chen
ent from the others (what would happen if you tried to add a widget from it - create a "copy" of a specific widget?). I don't know how this Activity bar is supposed to work, but maybe such a "widget manager" could fit there? With best regards, Hans Chen - [1] http://kde-lo

Re: Weather plasmoids ...

2010-01-01 Thread Hans Chen
Also, due to a change in the BBC feeds (as far as I know), the search in some weather widgets are broken. This is fixed in 4.4, but since yawp etc. have their own release cycle they're likely already fixed. With best regards, Hans Chen On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 19:04, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

Re: mouse plugins config

2009-11-24 Thread Hans Chen
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 19:17, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > honestly, while i understand why it was done like that in dolphin search (to > line up with the '+'), i think putting the remove on the left is incorrect in > these cases. 'remove' is neither the useful bit of information on the line nor > is

Re: mouse plugins config

2009-11-23 Thread Hans Chen
.png for remove button 3. Move remove buttons to the left-most 4. Not sure about this; make "Add Trigger" button fill two cells of the layout, below a remove button and trigger button ("Right-Button" in your screenshoot) With best regards, Hans Chen On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 06:47, H

Re: New idea for plasmoid locking and floating plasmoids.

2009-11-20 Thread Hans Chen
if your widgets are locked, in my opinion. For normal widgets, I think this "floating" state is important, or something similar - I often want to reposition the widget after adding it. With best regards, Hans Chen On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 19:13, Trever Fischer wrote: > On Friday 20

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]

Re: applet drag&drop between panel and desktop

2009-09-04 Thread Hans Chen
o-widget-panel-todesktop.gif> ;) With best regards, Hans Chen On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 10:25, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > On Thursday 03 September 2009, 23:12 you wrote: > > BTW, what should I do if I want to drag applets from desktop to panel > > directly ? > > Just

Re: 4.4 call for runners (ideas)

2009-07-23 Thread Hans Chen
be convenient if I could just open KRunner, type \Theta and press return. - Basket Notes - Quickly add a note to the current basket. I had this idea in KDE3; unfortunately the kde4 version of Basket hasn't received much love (as far as I know). With best regards, Hans

Re: Desktop containment question

2009-02-05 Thread Hans Chen
I like this idea! Would it be possible to do this with popup applets[1] too, such as Kickoff? Currently there are some pixels between between the left screen edge and back button (by default) due to the border, which makes it much harder to click (Fitt's law etc.) Hans [1] I'm not sure I used th

Re: Questions about Plasma Activities

2009-01-13 Thread Hans Chen
Just realized that I went quite off topic there, I apologize for that. Except for configuration, are there other problems with custom backgrounds when zoomed out? Since the space is "unlimited" (there's no stop to the right), I can't see how a bitmap wallpaper would work (unless it's repeated). W

Re: Questions about Plasma Activities

2009-01-13 Thread Hans Chen
2009/1/12 Aaron J. Seigo > i don't think putting this in the Appearances Settings dialog is good: it > isn't the right context (putting the Plasma theme there is already pushing it > too far imho) and that dialog is already overly complex. +1 I don't like to have Plasma themes there either, as it

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-18 Thread Hans Chen
You want to hear about another bug I found today? *How to reproduce: * 1. Open a window (let's say Dolphin) 2. Add a panel (gets added to the top) on left screen 3. Now you can't drag the window's title bar to the top edge of the screen. That's pretty obvious: the panel is in the way.

Re: Starting plasma from clean configuration - Issues

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Chen
2008/12/17 Aaron J. Seigo > On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Hans Chen wrote: > > Issue #1 (spinner): can still reproduce. > > should be fixed with r898248 > Confirmed! =) ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://ma

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Chen
2008/12/17 Aaron J. Seigo > > can you comment out the line > c->d->toolBox->setViewTransform(v->transform()); > in kdelibs/plasma/applet.cpp, rebuild in kdelibs/plasma and try again? > > (i'm trying to narrow it down to see if it's the switching between toolbar > and > cashew that's doing it, or

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Chen
2008/12/17 Aaron J. Seigo : > when this happens and you zoom out again, do all the containments have the > toolbar strip at the bottom? or does the one that lost its cashew not have a > toolbar strip at all? It isn't as if a specific containment has lost the cashew. All containments have the toolb

Re: Starting plasma from clean configuration - Issues

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Chen
uncomment the two debug lines in Corona::popupPosition(const > QGraphicsItem *item, const QSize &s) in kdelibs/plasma/corona.cpp and post the > output? Guess this isn't needed anymore since the issue is fixed. =) On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > On Wednesday 17

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Chen
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > > should be fixed also the last one The zoom in issue seems to be fixed. I thought the cashew was OK too, but then it suddenly disappeared again. I still haven't found a general way to reproduce this, but I noted the following thing: when th

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Chen
wrote: > On Wednesday 17 December 2008, Hans Chen wrote: > > 2008/12/17 Aaron J. Seigo > > > > > awesome. i think i found the problem. update kdelibs/plasma/ and let me > > > know =) > > > > Nope, I can still reproduce it. However, the X errors are go

Starting plasma from clean configuration - Issues

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Chen
zed correctly 3. The "Devices recently plugged in" popup appears on the right screen (not shown in the screenshot) Running kquitapp plasma and plasma fixes all issues above. Running trunk from today. Cheers, Hans Chen plasma_startup.

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-17 Thread Hans Chen
2008/12/17 Aaron J. Seigo > > awesome. i think i found the problem. update kdelibs/plasma/ and let me know > =) Nope, I can still reproduce it. However, the X errors are gone now. :) plasma3.log Description: Binary data ___ Plasma-devel mailing list P

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Chen
And here it is. The containments are fine after restarting Plasma. On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 8:15 PM, Hans Chen wrote: > Hey, > > Hopefully we'll get the answers soon. I compiled trunk today but Plasma > wouldn't start, so I cleared my build dir. kdelibs is recompiling at th

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-16 Thread Hans Chen
Hey, Hopefully we'll get the answers soon. I compiled trunk today but Plasma wouldn't start, so I cleared my build dir. kdelibs is recompiling at the moment. Thanks Aaron for the answers and crystal clear instructions! =) Marco: I don't know what 'precary' means, but I'm not sure my Twinview set

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-10 Thread Hans Chen
sma output beyond this point too? 2008/12/10 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Hans Chen wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > It's perfectly OK me. > > > > -- > > > > *Aaron*: I've played around a bit and found that

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-09 Thread Hans Chen
een through the ZUI). Do you want some plasma outputs? Should I describe exactly what I do, or is a log sufficient? On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Michael Rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 2008/12/9 Hans Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You suggest this aft

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-09 Thread Hans Chen
ong on techbase? ... Seeing your *grin*, maybe you're just pulling my leg. Heh. 2008/12/9 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Tuesday 09 December 2008, Hans Chen wrote: > > I have my suspicions but would like to hear your reasoning. > > > make you deal. i'll e

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-09 Thread Hans Chen
rt later today. 2008/12/9 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Monday 08 December 2008, Hans Chen wrote: > > I just tried to zoom in/out again and noticed the following thing: > > - Zooming in on the right (main) screen worked fine. > > > yay =) > > &

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-08 Thread Hans Chen
I just tried to zoom in/out again and noticed the following thing: - Zooming in on the right (main) screen worked fine. - I couldn't change activity on the left screen. If I zoom in from the left screen I just get the same containments again on both screens. If I use the right screen in the ZUI onl

Re: multi-screen fixathon

2008-12-08 Thread Hans Chen
Hi, Twinview here. I have some problems with moving widgets across the screens: - If I drag the handle, the widget gets dropped when it's over the containment on the other monitor (without me releasing the mouse button) - If I drag by clicking on the widget, it "disappears" when dragged to the n

Re: Questions about Plasma Activities

2008-11-23 Thread Hans Chen
2008/11/23 Aaron J. Seigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i'm open to suggestions =) The desktop theme seems to be global (same for all containments), so how about making the background themable? Let the theme decide what to draw as a background. And maybe add shadows to the activities to make them stand o

Panel and activity removal - confirmation versus undo

2008-10-25 Thread Hans Chen
I believe. The box will disappear if you click [OK], but I don't know if it's a good idea to hide them after a set time. In the case of Activities, maybe the boxes can disappear once you zoom in again. Your thoughts? With best regard, Hans Chen __

Re: Kickoff favorites - Suggestion (with mockup!)

2008-09-21 Thread Hans Chen
Glad you liked it. =) > like the idea, the delegate used here to paint the stuff has kind a support > for these types of icons already with a second column (like unmount icon in > removable devices notifier that now doesn't works but that's the idea) not > sure if here would be really appropriate,

Kickoff favorites - Suggestion (with mockup!)

2008-09-19 Thread Hans Chen
th the bars for removable storage (old picture<http://eliasprobst.eu/%7Eelias/stuff/screenshots/kde4-issues/kick-off-storage-devices.png>; I was too lazy to take a screenshot). What do you think? With best regards, Hans Chen ___ Plasma-d

Re: Review Request: [MOCKUP] Clock: remove "Use local time zone"

2008-09-11 Thread Hans Chen
2008/9/11 Sebastian Kügler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wednesday 10 September 2008 23:12:30 Celeste Lyn Paul wrote: > > Checkboxes are much easier and intuitive for making multiple selections > > than the current selection method. As it is, theres no way to know you > can > > make multiple selection