[Differential] [Commented On] D2983: Support solid colour and image backgrounds with a configurable background colour in the SDDM theme

2016-10-08 Thread markuss (Markus Slopianka)
markuss added a comment. This patch modifies an existing file. Removing the original copyright is illégal. REPOSITORY rPLASMAWORKSPACE Plasma Workspace REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D2983 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.kde.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To:

Re: [kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

2014-01-27 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Mittwoch, 22. Januar 2014, 18:24:08 schrieb Martin Klapetek: > Let me give a different example from the same area - do you remember > Windows Longhorn? Everyone was talking about "Longhorn" always and how > revolutionary and new it will be...and then, Windows Vista came out. From > the very sam

Re: [kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

2014-01-27 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2014, 11:36:12 schrieb Martin Klapetek: > Given that we're dropping the name KDE from the working desktop almost > completely and changing it for "Plasma" (so you'll no longer run "KDE" on > your PC but you'll run "Plasma") I hope this will prevent that. Nothing will be

Re: [kde-promo] Plasma Next Naming

2014-01-22 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Freitag, 17. Januar 2014, 18:37:27 schrieb Ivan Čukić: > It seems we mostly agree on the Plasma Year Month, and Plasma by KDE* > naming, at least in principle. Which is awesome. Considering that we already released official announcements de facto using Plasma (Workspaces) 2 as branding for alm

Re: Kickoff-QML and classic launcher

2011-12-22 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Donnerstag 22 Dezember 2011 12:54:37 Nowardev-Team wrote: > > sure i have not problem but how :D right now i have done kde3 panel :P Please don't call it that way. It should be referred to as Classic panel or something like that to be in line with current wording. ___

Re: Media Query: KDE's Support For Android Tablets

2011-11-22 Thread Markus Slopianka
As far as I'm aware, existing MTP access methods (DigiKam, Amarok) were seen as good enough, so nobody so far found the need to write a MTP KIO Slave to mount MTP devices in Dolphin. (Well, not exactly true: In 2007 a 3rd party wrote it but it died in alpha stage: http://kde-apps.org/content/s

Re: ScreenSaver and KDE Plasma 4.8?

2011-10-01 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Samstag 01 Oktober 2011 14:10:39 Marco Martin wrote: > for saving from damage, there is a thing called "power saving" :p Doesn't help the people who want a huge clock as screensaver without damaging their displays. It has to move. A Plasma containment whose widgets can float and bounce from

Re: ScreenSaver and KDE Plasma 4.8?

2011-10-01 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Samstag 01 Oktober 2011 12:36:12 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > we should also stress that if things like OpenGL screensavers are important > enough to people, that support for "things to draw moving things on screen > when locked" can be created anew. We already have KWin effects – even gimmicky one

Re: ScreenSaver and KDE Plasma 4.8?

2011-10-01 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Samstag 01 Oktober 2011 10:52:04 Marco Martin wrote: > that's what the support of plamoids on screensaver is for ;) I already understood that but as a screensaver (you know: to actually save screens from damage, incl. LCDs) a few additional features are required. At the very least, plasmoids

Re: ScreenSaver and KDE Plasma 4.8?

2011-09-30 Thread Markus Slopianka
Is anybody aware of empiric studies for what (if at all) people use screensavers these days? Personally I'd expect clock, news headlines, and photo slideshows to be the top answers. QML replacements should be available for the top uses once the xscreensaver code is dropped. (IMHO at least.) O

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-30 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Donnerstag 29 September 2011 18:11:12 Kevin Kofler wrote: > Wait and see the chaos that will come up when users open their Help/About > in Konqueror and it tells them that they're using "Konqueror 4.8.0 under > KDE 4.7.6". (And yes, it still says only "KDE" in 4.6.5, I haven't checked > 4.7 or

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Donnerstag 29 September 2011 14:01:50 Kevin Kofler wrote: > 2. It will be confusing to our users, and even to some packagers, to have a > KDE SC 4.8 on kdelibs 4.7. Since almost exactly 2 years we (esp. the promo team) are communicating that Platform/Frameworks, Applications and Workspaces ar

Re: Menubar in Workspace 4.8

2011-09-26 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Montag 26 September 2011 14:27:19 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > qt-copy is dead and because of that no option. Quite frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if we'll see a LibreOffice-like fork of Qt in the future because of Nokia's CLA for Qt contributions... > Btw what is "KR"? Short version of the

Re: Menubar in Workspace 4.8

2011-09-26 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Sonntag 25 September 2011 17:58:18 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > * license of required Canonical library is incompatible with license used by > decoration > API (GPLv3-only + Copyright Assignment (personal notice: I rather reinvent > the wheel > in chinese wall style than contributing to a GPLv3 on

Re: Menubar in Workspace 4.8

2011-09-26 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Sonntag 25 September 2011 18:24:40 Marco Martin wrote: > i'm quite against the panel, it promotes the menubar to an importance it > lost since ages, while i'm really in favor of burying it into a menu under > the windeco, since this decreases its importance ;) There are no window decorations i

Re: RFC: Remove Opacity from Alt+F3 menu

2011-08-18 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Donnerstag 18 August 2011 19:20:08 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Hi all, > > just an idea I had today: do we really need the opacity menu in the Alt+F3 > menu? Don't know if you need it, I use it regularly. Wouldn't mind moving it into the Advanced sub-menu, though. __

Re: Setting a plasmoid on desktop border

2011-07-02 Thread Markus Slopianka
I don't get the problem. If you want a contact list integrated into Plasma Desktop, add a panel and drop the list onto it, like it's already possible since ages with Lancelot's contacts IM plasmoid. With a panel you can set size, visibility, etc. That has also the advantage that you can set how

Re: (Mockup) Re: [RFC] Enforcing Compositing

2011-02-21 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Montag 21 Februar 2011, 14:24:42 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > I agree with Martin that the KWin KCMs could use a major redesign, > shuffling options around is not enough and leads to confusion among users > short-term, without tackling the real problem long term. My side note was not the main p

(Mockup) Re: [RFC] Enforcing Compositing

2011-02-21 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Montag 21 Februar 2011, 07:24:33 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > I don't want to remove the workaround, I only do not longer want to expose > it in the UI. That's a big difference. And I really like Markus' idea with > the None compositing backend. I took a few minutes of time to squeeze out a mocku

Re: [RFC] Enforcing Compositing

2011-02-20 Thread Markus Slopianka
> Since 4.2 we have enabled OpenGL based compositing by default and I was > wondering if in 4.7 we should go the next step: disabling the possibility > to turn compositing off if supported. > > With Mesa 7.10 it seems that the driver problems (Mesa 7.8) which hit us in > 4.5 are finally gone > (..

Re: Featurlets for 4.7

2011-02-13 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Sonntag 13 Februar 2011, 20:21:56 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > > 2. Have a "custom" wallpaper position option. This would let you set > > the position and scaling in both horizontal and vertical dimensions, > > either to presets like align top or bottom, or to custom values in > > pixels. This i

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Dienstag 01 Februar 2011, 13:17:51 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > Actually, Aaron expressed my thoughts about your comments exactly. If that's the case, you guys really should work on your self esteem. Just because someone tells his opinion he certainly does not necessarily demand his opinion t

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-31 Thread Markus Slopianka
Sunday, January 30, 2011, Markus Slopianka wrote: > > > let's try something big and new. let's make that Big Move and step away > > > from ~/Desktop. > > > > Frankly, I like my dumping ground. > > and you can retain it. nobody is taking it away from you

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-01-30 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Montag 31 Januar 2011, 02:22:41 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > hi... > > back when we started the path towards plasma i said that we needed to > slowly evolve the desktop beyond the desktop folder with icons littered on > the desktop. > > now we have activities, kick-ass containments like search an

Re: The state of KWin

2010-12-26 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Sunday 26 December 2010 14:19:37 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > I > just cannot understand that problems like slowness of Present Windows with > NVIDIA is reported by users in the beta phase several month after the code > hit trunk! I would be cool if there was a separate "kwin-test" (or so) package t

Re: Fancy Panel and pre-existing users

2010-12-23 Thread Markus Slopianka
Users who have the "Fancy Tasks" plasmoid installed have the Fancy Panel option. Users who don't have the plasmoid don't have it. On Thursday 23 December 2010 23:13:53 Ben Cooksley wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been made aware [1] that the options in terms of new panels > available to users can d

Re: trunk open for 4.7, remember to backport :)

2010-12-23 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Donnerstag 23 Dezember 2010, 10:30:28 schrieb Ben Cooksley: > The git transition, due to concerns about the ability to release 4.6 > from Git, has been delayed until 4.6 is released. So trunk could be on git right now? ___ Plasma-devel mailing list P

Re: Plasma themes set in kdeartwork

2010-12-13 Thread Markus Slopianka
Stupid question: Why do we need Plasma themes in kdeartwork at all? They are not like KWin decorations and have to be compiled. Isn't GHNS enough? Markus ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-deve

Re: Review Request: Plasma: Folder View: Icon displays 'pressed' on non-activating clicks

2010-11-10 Thread Markus Slopianka
> On 2010-11-09 18:37:25, Aaron Seigo wrote: > > > > Lindsay Roberts wrote: > If there are no objections could I request that someone check this in? Does it change the behavior described in https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256465 (always using the large 256x256 icon for the scaling ef

Re: notification text

2010-10-25 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Montag 25 Oktober 2010, 15:53:39 schrieb Marco Martin: > here you go, in trunk text is selectable and links clickable In case I never told you: You are my personal hero. :-) Does it also work with Kopete which AFAIK sends HTML-formatted notifications for URLs? _

Re: notification text

2010-10-25 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Montag 25 Oktober 2010, 13:11:21 schrieb Chani: > ...after googling the part I could read, I got my account unlocked (phew!) > but my point still stands :) I'd rather see clickable URLs than copyable ones... > also, if anyone can recommend a reliable imap server, I would be willing to > pay

Re: digiclock looks

2010-10-22 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Samstag 23 Oktober 2010, 01:40:52 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > On Friday, October 22, 2010 23:43:52 Markus Slopianka wrote: > > The clock is also very big. Maybe the date could be displayed by default. > > That leads to too much visual clutter. The date is available in the t

Re: digiclock looks

2010-10-22 Thread Markus Slopianka
The new clock in Air looks good, in Oxygen it looks weird. I thing Todd's suggestion about a sunken look could would improve it. The clock is also very big. Maybe the date could be displayed by default. Markus ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel

Re: Why rotate widgets?

2010-09-08 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 15:04:40 Giulio Camuffo wrote: > I really can't understand what's the problem here. If you don't want to > rotate your plasmoids, fine. But i really don't find why a tiny icon is > that a problem. Does it get in the way when you want to do something? no. > Is it brok

Re: Why rotate widgets?

2010-09-08 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Wednesday 08 September 2010 12:54:50 Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote: > what forum please? 'once again'? This time http://www.osnews.com/thread?439532 but I've read this several times already in addition to my own feeling that this most useless feature of all time should better go away. _

Re: Why rotate widgets?

2010-09-08 Thread Markus Slopianka
> on a screen laying flat or which can be tilted: to make for a more > appropriate viewing angle. Isn't that the responsibility of RandR? Personally I'd rather have a global tool (KRandR or some other "rotate Activity" tool) that to rotate Plasmoids individually. > from a development POV it all

Re: Why rotate widgets?

2010-09-07 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Tuesday 07 September 2010 12:11:52 nuno pinheiro wrote: > let me ask its the other way arround, why not? "Because we can" is the worst possible reason for anything. > does it create visual cluter? no.. Sure it does. Every additional button adds clutter, even if only by a small amount. Why

Why rotate widgets?

2010-09-07 Thread Markus Slopianka
Hi. I wonder why Plasma widgets in Plasma Desktop can be rotated. Why would anyone need individual widgets to be upside down? Isn't this one of those micro-options we once stated to get rid of? Markus ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.or

Plasma version numbers

2010-09-07 Thread Markus Slopianka
Hi there. Out of curiosity I happened to enter those commands into Konsole: # plasma-desktop --version Plasma Workspace: 0.3 # plasma-netbook --version Plasma Netbook: 0.1 See the printed version numbers. I guess those numbers are leftovers from a time both were still in pre-release. IMO both sh

Re: BoF session at the MeeGo conference

2010-08-26 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Thursday 26 August 2010 15:22:03 Bart Cerneels wrote: > Has anyone on this list already send a BoF session proposal? > > I was thinking of the following: > > We (KDE) and others (Qt) developers have written a lot of Qt code > already. It makes perfect sense to try and reuse this code on the >

Re: Review Request: Add "Show Icon only" option to the tasks applet

2010-08-23 Thread Markus Slopianka
> On 2010-08-23 09:00:48, Marco Martin wrote: > > this very patch appeared here for several times already. > > and as usual, the question is: what real value gives over auto hiding the > > text when there is not enough space? If this patch works with the other one that implements launcher suppo

Re: KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/devicenotifier

2010-07-15 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Thursday 15 July 2010 17:57:11 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > i really dislike text-on-graphics from a design > perspective. text is fine detail, and a progress bar is visually fairly > complex. maybe it's time to think outside the box. e.g. maybe colourize > the device icon showing what % of it is f

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Markus Slopianka
Oh, and btw: It's impossible to click on URLs in those Plasma tooltips, while it's perfectly possible in all other "About" windows. ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Thursday 15 July 2010 00:04:45 Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > Yep, it's way more elegant than having an icon with an "i" that when > clicked shows all the "useful" information. In the old window as well as Aurelien's mockup the applet description is visible right away, without the need to cli

Re: KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/devicenotifier

2010-07-14 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 23:46:41 Jacopo De Simoi wrote: > > No longer displays amount of free space --> regression. > > Avoidable tooltips -> Usability problem. > > I agree, suggestions? How about extending Plasma::Meter to show text/numbers in the progress bar? Maybe it could look like the p

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 22:35:50 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > sorry, but it's not coming back. Oh, then offloading all useful info into tooltips is good? Is this how you definition of elegance? ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.k

Re: KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/applets/devicenotifier

2010-07-14 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Wednesday 14 July 2010 20:10:42 Jacopo De Simoi wrote: > SVN commit 1149977 by jacopods: > > First attempt to get rid of the capacity bar in the device notifier: use a > Plasma::Meter with tooltips. Screenshot: > http://imagebin.ca/view/ccJ3dD.html No longer displays amount of free space --> r

Re: Review Request: Launcher support for libtaskmanager

2010-07-13 Thread Markus Slopianka
> On 2010-07-10 19:13:13, Markus Slopianka wrote: > > GPL for library files? Sounds strange to me. I'd expect at least LGPL... > > Marco Martin wrote: > this library is a big mess it already contains pieces in gpl, lgpl and bsd > this really should be fixe

Re: Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

2010-07-13 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 07:34:35 Chani wrote: > how would you suggest that be done? Ask Celeste to come up with something great :-) ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

2010-07-12 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Monday 12 July 2010 23:40:42 Chani wrote: > if you want details, go read my blog posts on activities :) > http://chani.wordpress.com/?s=activities Yeah, I could do that, but while I'm not afraid of reading blogs, typical users won't do that. It'd be really great if by SC 4.6 it was easily di

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Monday 12 July 2010 15:33:24 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > It looked like this: > > http://agateau.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/add-widget-e1278885892283.png > > It was rejected because it had the same problems as the KDE 4.3 dialog: > taking too much screen space. The people who rejected it obvio

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Monday 12 July 2010 13:53:10 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > I agree. I made a proposal for an alternative version which would > requires no hovering to get the widget descriptions but it was rejected. Huh? Why? Was it like the one in 4.3? I had absolutely no problems with the 4.3 one. > Therefore

Re: Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

2010-07-12 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Monday 12 July 2010 12:58:23 Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > Well, I don't completely see the point of avoiding any type of > configuration to the user. IMO, when creating a new activity, the user > might be prompted to choose among a set of default activities. Those > activities might already hav

Re: Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

2010-07-12 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Monday 12 July 2010 11:55:50 Marco Martin wrote: > unfortunately, i see that having something already done is often enough to > make people not wanting to use those Maybe it should be easily discoverable what Activities actually are. Maybe I'm uninformed, but I see them as virtual desktops wit

Re: Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

2010-07-12 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Monday 12 July 2010 11:47:51 Marco Martin wrote: > or do you have a better idea to -magically- find an image that represent > that activity without user intervention? Why would Activities be created without user intervention? ___ Plasma-devel mailing

Re: Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

2010-07-12 Thread Markus Slopianka
Aren't icons supposed to be meaningful? How do those random patterns represent activities in an iconic way? ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-11 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Monday 12 July 2010 00:18:03 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > What do you think? I think that the scrollbars are an improvement, but I like the window from 4.3 better: The current one requires to hover over an icon to see the description. I have yet to see any improvement of the "Add widget" bar over

Re: Review Request: Launcher support for libtaskmanager

2010-07-11 Thread Markus Slopianka
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4585/#review6469 --- Um, I think that was done by accident: /kdebase/workspace/libs/taskman

Re: Review Request: Launcher support for libtaskmanager

2010-07-10 Thread Markus Slopianka
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4585/#review6471 --- GPL for library files? Sounds strange to me. I'd expect at least LGPL.

Elegance: Whitespace

2010-07-09 Thread Markus Slopianka
Hi. I stumbled about this post (by a non-Linux guy) via Planet GNOME: http://www.usabilitypost.com/2010/06/04/dont-forget-the-whitespace/ Maybe that's something to adapt for Plasma's task bar and possibly also tray. Just a thought... Markus ___ Plasma

Re: Review Request: Plasma Mediacenter: Inroduce displaying and modifying of nepomuk tags

2010-06-08 Thread Markus Slopianka
> On 2010-06-07 22:45:45, Markus Slopianka wrote: > > Correct me if I missed anything, but as I skimmed through the diff, it > > looked to me that this is only about Nepomuk tags. Correct? > > I may be splitting hairs here, but when I hear "tag editing" in the c

Re: Review Request: Plasma Mediacenter: Inroduce displaying and modifying tags

2010-06-07 Thread Markus Slopianka
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/4252/#review6028 --- Correct me if I missed anything, but as I skimmed through the diff, it