Re: Help us finding the new name for Laptop window decoration

2012-03-16 Thread J Janz
I guess simple suffers from the same problem of Lightweight, sending the wrong message about oxygen: oxygen is complex, dificult? It isn't said where the simplicity is, which is only about its graphics. Simple Graphics, maybe? IMHO, Thin says it better. -- J (|´:¬{)» --

Re: activity aware plasmoids

2012-03-07 Thread J Janz
Anything like the found at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/social-media-mashup/screenshots/ ? [image: Imagem inline 2] This is an idea I have, too, and found that wordpress plugin some months ago and it's as good as an example. But, in my head these may be also mashed up with your e-mail (I kn

Re: Review Request: Option to set no title for the folderview applet

2011-03-04 Thread J Janz
> On March 4, 2011, 4:02 p.m., Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > nice idea :) > > > > there is a string translation (localization) issue on lines 615-617 and a > > handful of whitespace issues. once those are addressed, please commit. > > J Janz wrote:

Re: Review Request: Option to set no title for the folderview applet

2011-03-04 Thread J Janz
> On March 4, 2011, 4:02 p.m., Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > nice idea :) > > > > there is a string translation (localization) issue on lines 615-617 and a > > handful of whitespace issues. once those are addressed, please commit. * On strings, some thoughts: - For the options, "No title" or,

Re: Review Request: Option to set no title for the folderview applet

2011-03-03 Thread J Janz
> On Feb. 28, 2011, 3:45 p.m., Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > There's no need to add a UI option for this, the user should just be able > > to set an empty title and the header would then get hidden / collapsed. > > > > Right now, this doesn't happen since when the label is empty, the default > >

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread J Janz
Boy, what a huge thread! I'm sorry I couldn't read it entirely yet (and even less find out about this around the web) and I'm sorry if you guys might have talked about it before but, as don't see it and you've been discussing activities, I want to offer at least something to polish the edges. I mi

Re: Window thumbnail and Javascript

2011-01-03 Thread J Janz
2011/1/2 Aaron J. Seigo > On Sunday, January 2, 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > Let me rephrase: why would we need a rotated area with thumbnails? I just > > if someone wishes to use the thumbnail is an item on the QGraphicsScene > canvas, that means it can be transformed. Well, I got so worrie

Re: Window thumbnail and Javascript

2010-12-31 Thread J Janz
2010/12/30 Aaron J. Seigo > as for general > thumbnails, that sounds like something much more suited for a DataEngine or > a > Service. the biggest problem with that is it requires a top level window id > (e.g.a Plasma::View or even a regular QWidget) and a region inside of it. > i'm > not keen o

Window thumbnail and Javascript

2010-12-30 Thread J Janz
Hello, there, I asked about this a good while ago and back then JS bindings were still getting stablelized. As I don't see documentation for this specific issue, I come to ask again: is there a way for a JavaScript plasmoid to make use of window thumbnail like, for example, those on taskbar items'

Re: JS API questions

2010-03-09 Thread J Janz
2010/3/9 Aaron J. Seigo > however, there are a number of QScript/C++ > issues that block this from actually happening. i have a couple of ideas on > how to address this, and will investigate and do one of them tomorrow. > If I got that right, will it then be possible to have a dataUpdated for wi

Re: notifications, again :D

2010-02-01 Thread J Janz
2010/2/1 Marco Martin > > could be done as an additional thing, but i think not noticeable enough to > not trigger bug reports like > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217826 > > It might. If you start a copy of files and no popup comes out but, instead, only the "i" icon changes to a pie-cha

Re: notifications, again :D

2010-02-01 Thread J Janz
2010/2/1 Sebastian Kügler > > We should try to show the progress in the systray icon itself, IMO. I've > played > around with it (connection progress in the networkmanager plasmoid), and it > works > nicely for smaller sizes. This way we could show the overall progress as a > pie or > ring that

Re: Idea: Window management for 4.5

2010-01-31 Thread J Janz
2010/1/31 Aaron J. Seigo > > system tray icons replicate actions already in the taskbar (window > activation, > for instance) and the rest of what they provide (status indication, context > menu, etc) can be perfectly integrated into the existing task entries. > > Oh, good! Could they be made ava

Re: Idea: Window management for 4.5

2010-01-31 Thread J Janz
2010/1/30 Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer > > it or access its systray-menu, because you have seen the notification. That > is > why local notifications would be easier to use. Seriously, the onliest pro > for > Dude, really, I agree that local notifications are better but there's no room fo

Re: Idea: Window management for 4.5

2010-01-29 Thread J Janz
2010/1/29 Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer > Hi Plasma-Devs! > > Well, I'm not one but ... still, I guess I bring some issues that, thought deeper, could either help turning this ideas into something or sinking 'em down. ;) Comments? Suggestions? Ideas? > I like the idea of getting rid of

Re: notifications, again :D

2010-01-26 Thread J Janz
2010/1/26 Marco Martin > > > What if kopete says someone is talking to you and you were about to hit > the > > action for chatting with that person and suddenly battery (or anything > > urgent else) comes along and you then actually hit the wrong deal for it? > > if the mouse is already somewher

Re: notifications, again :D

2010-01-26 Thread J Janz
2010/1/25 Aaron J. Seigo > so if a power management notification happens, kopete notifications are > silently queued up _behind_ that notification until it the critical > notification is dealt with. > Guys, Having notifications queued (by showing just 1 at a time) seems like a good idea to cle

Re: notifications, again :D

2010-01-25 Thread J Janz
2010/1/25 Marco Martin > > well, x would have to dismiss only one in this case (no idea how to do a > dismiss all button that is not dangerous) > I don't see much of a problem with that. If the messages are still valid, so the user should really see them and dismiss the ones he wants to (otherwi

Re: notifications, again :D

2010-01-25 Thread J Janz
I like it too and also prefer vertical but I wonder if showing only one notification at a time wouldn't make user to lose important notifications, like if (s)he just quickly glances at the first one, with no enough time for the scroll, and clicks the "X" and dismisses them all. No suggestion yet f

Re: plasma.include() and member visibility

2010-01-16 Thread J Janz
2010/1/15 Aaron J. Seigo > > it is a scoping problem. declaring "var name" means that the 'name' > variable > is local to that context (the file in this case). Well, it's true. That's actually how JS works, so, not using var would be the way to go. I, however, don't see how it would work for fu

Re: plasma.include() and member visibility

2010-01-15 Thread J Janz
> > Hmm, maybe the feature > (exposing the included variables and functions) is just not available. > But IMHO it should be, shouldn't it? Otherwise, there's no much point in including a file (its use gets veeery limited). Open a bug report, then? -- J (|´:¬{)» ---

Re: plasma.include() and member visibility

2010-01-14 Thread J Janz
2010/1/14 Amos Kariuki > J Janz wrote: > > > Right ... I meant, wouldn't this be because you're using plasmoid.include > > instead of just include, like in the API link? (i think *that* should > give > > you an error but ... anyway) > > -- > &

Re: plasma.include() and member visibility

2010-01-14 Thread J Janz
Right ... I meant, wouldn't this be because you're using plasmoid.include instead of just include, like in the API link? (i think *that* should give you an error but ... anyway) -- J (|´:¬{)» - "Eu sou a ressurreição e a vida. Quem crê em mim, ainda que m

Re: plasma.include() and member visibility

2010-01-14 Thread J Janz
I haven't tested that (I was about to by these days) but I guess it's just include [1] instead of plasmoid.include ... [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/JavaScript/API#Access_To_Packaged_Files Sorry if I'm saying silliness ... Cheers, -- J (|´:¬{)»

Re: Widget Explorer usability problems

2010-01-12 Thread J Janz
2010/1/12 Aaron J. Seigo > > the click-hold-to-scroll the applet list will be on my agenda for tomorrow > and > should be backportable. > > What about a scrollbar on the bottom (btw, like in Sean's mockup)? It's the faster way to get to the end of the list and still provide left and right arrow b

Re: planning for 4.4

2009-06-26 Thread J Janz
I'd like to keep with javascript plasmoid tutorials (specially if we manage to have both full and simple API) but, meeting this sat, I can't make it. Sunday would be better, and even better would be any time before 15:00 UTC or at least 1 hour after it ;) But, anyway, despite of the time or day (o

Re: default plasma theme and fallback

2009-06-25 Thread J Janz
I think c) is the most interesting, as it would let people to rely on any theme they want to (and who'd make a third party theme relying on another third party theme would have conscience it's not KDE's and, as so, could be unstable and s/he'd have to be sure the theme is ok time to time), but b) i

Re: Review Request: Place the user avatar next to the user/computer info in Kickoff

2009-06-22 Thread J Janz
> On 2009-06-22 14:34:05, Aaron Seigo wrote: > > > > at one point i spent a lot of time lining up _all_ the items in kickoff so > > that there were as few vertical alignment points as possible and so that > > things always aligned properly. > > > > apparently in current svn the search icon is

Re: Plasma + QT Kinetic Preliminary Design Decisions

2009-06-04 Thread J. Janz
2009/6/4 Akmanalp, Mehmet A > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 4:46 PM, J. Janz wrote: > > 2009/6/4 Akmanalp, Mehmet A > > I don't know much about kinetic (yeah, I'm out of time for my homework > > research ;) ) but, since it has what's needed to "Grow / Shrink

Re: Current Animations Poll for QT Kinetic + Plasma

2009-06-04 Thread J. Janz
2009/6/3 Casper Clemence > 2009/6/2 Akmanalp, Mehmet A : > ... > > So, apparently, people don't use a large variety of animations at all, > > and don't chain them parallelly. > ... > > Something that is crying out for parallel animations is the plasma > tooltips trasitions. Hover over an item to

Re: Plasma + QT Kinetic Preliminary Design Decisions

2009-06-04 Thread J. Janz
2009/6/4 Akmanalp, Mehmet A > Hello, Hi, there, First of all, thank you for your work (and I mean all of you involved with that). > > > * A list of effects to be definitely implemented (since they were > already being used / wanted by someone): >- Flip >- Slide In / Out >- Fade I

Re: Inter plasmoids communication

2009-05-14 Thread J. Janz
Hello, 2009/5/14 Aaron J. Seigo > On Thursday 14 May 2009, David Marques wrote: > > or something similar (maybe i missed it ??). It would add a great value > to > > the plasma API if plasmoid instances could communicate with each other. I > > what are the use cases? It's not the original intent

Re: changelog (and my poor laptop)

2009-05-08 Thread J. Janz
2009/5/8 Marco Martin > On Friday 08 May 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > hi all ... > > > > i was offline for much of the day today as my laptop has decided to start > > overheating randoly; it seems nepomuk+strigi indexing my disk is too much > > for it. not sure what to make of that, but there

Re: SoK - Plasma mentoring needed

2009-04-22 Thread J. Janz
-- 2009/4/22 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 t

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

Re: Review Request: Prevent Plasma popups from showing over screensaver

2009-04-14 Thread J. Janz
> On 2009-04-14 08:58:10, Aaron Seigo wrote: > > unfortunately, this breaks "passive" mode: if you click on a notification > > and then click off it, it goes away. ok, minor annoyance, right? open the > > clock ... the calendar pops up and then goes away as soon as you click back > > onto the

GSoC students x ideas

2009-03-30 Thread J. Janz
Guys, I don't know much about GSoC (actually, quite nothing - I'm learning everything I can from this year's program) and I don't understand very well the student/idea selection. Could you guys give me a hand? My doubts, right now, are: 1) Students have to apply strictly for ideas listed on idea

Re: Another Summer of Code proposal (desktop dock)

2009-03-25 Thread J. Janz
Hello, Aaron, I had, wy long ago, an idea for something that has a dock behaviour but was not intented to be a dock (I'm thinking about submiting it to GSoC or not - it'd depend on time for writing it down in a formal way). Anyway, exactly because I, too, don't see a diference between a widge