Re: Currencies and Countries. Was: Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-24 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 24/10-2009 16:13 John Layt wrote: > On Monday 19 October 2009 02:23:18 Thomas Olsen wrote: > > On 19/10-2009 02:02 John Layt wrote: > > > On Sunday 18 October 2009 23:16:29 Thomas Olsen wrote: > > > > Guess I'll better drop they eye-candy. Just thought it would look > > > > cool > > > > > > >

Re: Currencies and Countries. Was: Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-24 Thread John Layt
On Monday 19 October 2009 02:23:18 Thomas Olsen wrote: > On 19/10-2009 02:02 John Layt wrote: > > On Sunday 18 October 2009 23:16:29 Thomas Olsen wrote: > > > Guess I'll better drop they eye-candy. Just thought it would look cool > > > > > > :-) > > > > Well, for currency I don't think it's such a

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-20 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 20/10-2009 22:03 Chani wrote: > > Thanks Chani. I think I wasn't being clear in what I wrote. What I meant > > was that reading through documentation, tutorials etc. about creating > > *Plasmoids* the terms seems to be used rather randomly. > > they're on the techbase wiki, right? you could

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-20 Thread Chani
> > Thanks Chani. I think I wasn't being clear in what I wrote. What I meant > was that reading through documentation, tutorials etc. about creating > *Plasmoids* the terms seems to be used rather randomly. > they're on the techbase wiki, right? you could fix them :) -- This message brought

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-20 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 20/10-2009 20:16 Chani wrote: > > About the name confusion: are there any reasons for Plasmoids also being > > referred to as Applets and Widgets? Widgets is a specially confusing term > > as at least I think of Qt Widgets when used. > > Widget = any sort of little doodad you can add to your

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-20 Thread Chani
> About the name confusion: are there any reasons for Plasmoids also being > referred to as Applets and Widgets? Widgets is a specially confusing term > as at least I think of Qt Widgets when used. > Widget = any sort of little doodad you can add to your desktop. plasmoids, google gadgets, osx

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 20/10-2009 03:23 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > On October 19, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > On 20/10-2009 01:37 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > > > On October 19, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > > > "You also understand and agree that the Yahoo! Services *may* (my > > > > emphasis) include advertisements

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On October 19, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > On 20/10-2009 01:37 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > > On October 19, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > > "You also understand and agree that the Yahoo! Services *may* (my > > > emphasis) include advertisements and that these advertisements are > > > necessary for Y

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 20/10-2009 01:37 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > On October 19, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > "You also understand and agree that the Yahoo! Services *may* (my > > emphasis) include advertisements and that these advertisements are > > necessary for Yahoo! to provide the Yahoo! Services". Well this se

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On October 19, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > On 19/10-2009 21:06 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > > On October 17, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > > On 17/10-2009 12:07 Thomas Olsen wrote: > > > > On 17/10-2009 06:18 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > > > > > (do you know if the the Yahoo! legal terms for the servi

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-19 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 19/10-2009 21:06 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > On October 17, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > On 17/10-2009 12:07 Thomas Olsen wrote: > > > On 17/10-2009 06:18 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > > > > (do you know if the the Yahoo! legal terms for the service allow > > > > redistribution of software that us

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-19 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On October 17, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > On 17/10-2009 12:07 Thomas Olsen wrote: > > On 17/10-2009 06:18 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > > > (do you know if the the Yahoo! legal terms for the service allow > > > redistribution of software that uses it? always on the look out for > > > more services w

Re: Currencies and Countries. Was: Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-18 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 19/10-2009 02:02 John Layt wrote: > On Sunday 18 October 2009 23:16:29 Thomas Olsen wrote: > > Hmm. I get your point. didn't think of that. And unfortunately the > > problem will also be in Currency Converter because a currency can be used > > in several countries: > > Yep, it's something I pl

Re: Currencies and Countries. Was: Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-18 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 18 October 2009 23:16:29 Thomas Olsen wrote: > Hmm. I get your point. didn't think of that. And unfortunately the problem > will also be in Currency Converter because a currency can be used in > several countries: Yep, it's something I plan to cater for in the currency stuff. > And the

Re: Currencies and Countries. Was: Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-18 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 18/10-2009 23:46 John Layt wrote: > On Sunday 18 October 2009 21:21:15 you wrote: > > Well, anyways. I wanted to use the flags for my Google Translator > > Plasmoid and couldn't figure out why only some of the flags showed up in > > the ComboBox. It turned out that Google are using slightly dif

Re: Currencies and Countries. Was: Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-18 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 18 October 2009 21:21:15 you wrote: > Well, anyways. I wanted to use the flags for my Google Translator Plasmoid > and couldn't figure out why only some of the flags showed up in the > ComboBox. It turned out that Google are using slightly different country > codes than KDE uses in l10

Currencies and Countries. Was: Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-18 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 17/10-2009 18:42 John Layt wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 11:00:16 Thomas Olsen wrote: > > From the top of my head it would be nice to have a national flag as well. > > Is that in KLocale already? > > That's another issue we've been kicking around for a while, we do have the > full set

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-18 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 18 October 2009 00:51:04 Chani wrote: > um, what about currencies with >1 subunit? :) china's got kuai/yuan, > mao/jiao and fen/(I forget). (yes, they have two names for each unit, > too!) 1 kuai = 10 mao, 1 mao = 10 fen. > then again, dealing with fen was so rare IME that maybe it can

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-17 Thread Chani
> Thanks for the other info, it will help with my design. Basically there > will be a .desktop file for each currency code, holding at least the > following fields: > > CurrencyCode=NZD > CurrencyName=New Zealand dollar > CurrencyUnitSymbol=$ > CurrencyUnitSymbolDisambig=NZ$ > Curren

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-17 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 17 October 2009 11:00:16 Thomas Olsen wrote: > From the top of my head it would be nice to have a national flag as well. > Is that in KLocale already? That's another issue we've been kicking around for a while, we do have the full set of flags in kdebase/runtime/l10n under each count

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-17 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 17/10-2009 12:07 Thomas Olsen wrote: > On 17/10-2009 06:18 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > > (do you know if the the Yahoo! legal terms for the service allow > > redistribution of software that uses it? always on the look out for more > > services we can use and widgets we can ship that use them ;)

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-17 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 17/10-2009 12:00 Thomas Olsen wrote: > On 17/10-2009 11:18 John Layt wrote: > > On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:42:33 Thomas Olsen wrote: > > > And BTW: > > > http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Currency+Converter?content=113 > > >86 6 > > > > > > Next one tomorrow :-) > > The weekend (re

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-17 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 17/10-2009 11:18 John Layt wrote: > Nice. That reminds me I have a draft proposal to add full ISO Currency > Code support into KLocale, that could save you (and several others) a lot > of work around codes, localisation, translations, formats and rounding > rules. Must get that done before

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-17 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 17/10-2009 06:18 "Aaron J. Seigo" wrote: > On October 16, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > > Today I finally took the time to tweak my xorg.conf and the Desktop > > effects in System Settings. I thought that my 5 yrs old lunch-box Dell PC > > with an on- board graphics chip and lousy Intel drivers j

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-17 Thread Thomas Olsen
On 17/10-2009 11:18 John Layt wrote: > On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:42:33 Thomas Olsen wrote: > > And BTW: > > http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Currency+Converter?content=11386 > >6 > > > > Next one tomorrow :-) The weekend (red wine) hit me so I might wait 'till Monday ;-) > Nice. Th

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-17 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 17 October 2009 01:42:33 Thomas Olsen wrote: > And BTW: > http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Currency+Converter?content=113866 > > Next one tomorrow :-) Nice. That reminds me I have a draft proposal to add full ISO Currency Code support into KLocale, that could save you (and s

Re: OT: Thanks!

2009-10-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On October 16, 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote: > Today I finally took the time to tweak my xorg.conf and the Desktop effects > in System Settings. I thought that my 5 yrs old lunch-box Dell PC with an > on- board graphics chip and lousy Intel drivers just weren't up to it, but > now I can actually enj

OT: Thanks!

2009-10-16 Thread Thomas Olsen
Today I finally took the time to tweak my xorg.conf and the Desktop effects in System Settings. I thought that my 5 yrs old lunch-box Dell PC with an on- board graphics chip and lousy Intel drivers just weren't up to it, but now I can actually enjoy the things people are talking about. No Wobbly