Re: akademy 2022 BOF notes

2022-10-04 Thread Jonathan Riddell
So with Plasma 5.27 as an LTS that means 5.24 will be dropped as an LTS. Kubuntu and Opensuse people (and anyone else using the LTS): should we have one more release of Plasma 5.24 in say January? Jonathan

akademy 2022 BOF notes

2022-10-04 Thread Marco Martin
Those are the raw unedited notes for the plasma bof at akademy. probably not super clear to who wasn't there, but ask and discuss anything not clear Plasma BoF Akademy 2022 Things we want in 5.27 Noah: New spectacle Noah: has something to finish for the Breeze effort to see if the

Akademy Plasma BOF notes

2021-06-23 Thread Marco Martin
* Incompatible changes in Plasma Framework 6 (Marco Martin) * Marco has several branches * https://invent.kde.org/mart/plasma-frameworkhttps://invent.kde.org/mart/plasma-framework(https://invent.kde.org/mart/plasma-framework) work/mart/pf6 * agreement on the AppletRepresentation as bas

Re: Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-21 Thread David Edmundson
I have booked all Friday morning for a super fun activity. Group bug triage! It'll be more fun than it sounds. Albeit that is quite a low bar to beat :) David

Re: Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-14 Thread Marco Martin
editable link, *should* be: https://share.kde.org/apps/files/?dir=/Plasma%20scratchpad&openfile=2007437 On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 10:59 AM Marco Martin wrote: > > trying again, with a link which hopefully works: > https://share.kde.org/s/ixNaQxyybz2NHpE > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 10:48 AM Marco Ma

Re: Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-10 Thread Marco Martin
trying again, with a link which hopefully works: https://share.kde.org/s/ixNaQxyybz2NHpE On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 10:48 AM Marco Martin wrote: > > I started a very sparsely populated notepad here: > https://share.kde.org/apps/files/?dir=/Plasma%20scratchpad&openfile=2007437 > > On Thu, Jun 10, 202

Re: Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-10 Thread Marco Martin
I started a very sparsely populated notepad here: https://share.kde.org/apps/files/?dir=/Plasma%20scratchpad&openfile=2007437 On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 10:26 AM Marco Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:13 PM Nicolas Fella wrote: > >> in terms of topics I'd like to discuss how some recent e

Re: Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-10 Thread Marco Martin
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 9:13 PM Nicolas Fella wrote: >> in terms of topics I'd like to discuss how some recent efforts integrate > and depend on each other. In particular the long-proposed rewrite of > present windows ties into the ongoing work on the scene and effects API > redesign and QtQuick in

Re: Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-09 Thread Nicolas Fella
On 07/06/2021 10:42, Marco Martin wrote: Hi all, Do we want a plasma bof at akademy? often we do a full day one, which may or may not be useful, depending on what topic we do have. Personally i would like to make one about plasma 6 Any day/time preference? other topics? Hi, in terms of topics

Re: Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-08 Thread Marco Martin
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 11:27 AM Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > > Hi, > > Was already asking :) I'd prefer Mon or Tue. An almost-all-day on tuesday? (on mon there is also the agm that may conflict?) -- Marco Martin

Re: Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-08 Thread Jonathan Riddell
As discussed at the meeting yesterday one obvious topic is 5.23 kickoff to schedule the next release Jonathan

Re: Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-07 Thread Aleix Pol
On Mon, Jun 7, 2021 at 10:43 AM Marco Martin wrote: > > Hi all, > Do we want a plasma bof at akademy? > often we do a full day one, which may or may not be useful, > depending on what topic we do have. > Personally i would like to make one about plasma 6 > Any day/time pre

Re: Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-07 Thread Kai Uwe Broulik
Hi, Was already asking :) I'd prefer Mon or Tue. Cheers Kai Uwe

Akademy Plasma Bof

2021-06-07 Thread Marco Martin
Hi all, Do we want a plasma bof at akademy? often we do a full day one, which may or may not be useful, depending on what topic we do have. Personally i would like to make one about plasma 6 Any day/time preference? other topics? -- Marco Martin

Re: Plasma related BoFs at Akademy 2020

2020-08-04 Thread Aleix Pol
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 8:48 AM David Redondo wrote: > > Hi Aleix, > > Am Montag, 3. August 2020, 16:40:21 CEST schrieb Aleix Pol: > > We do have several Plasma BoF. I see at least Plasma Discover and > > Plasma Mobile. ;) > Seems like I should have used ctrl+f instead of scrolling over the page an

Re: Plasma related BoFs at Akademy 2020

2020-08-03 Thread David Redondo
Hi Aleix, Am Montag, 3. August 2020, 16:40:21 CEST schrieb Aleix Pol: > We do have several Plasma BoF. I see at least Plasma Discover and > Plasma Mobile. ;) Seems like I should have used ctrl+f instead of scrolling over the page and looking manually. ;) > Hardware collaborations should also be r

Re: Plasma related BoFs at Akademy 2020

2020-08-03 Thread Aleix Pol
2 PM David Redondo wrote: > > Hi, > > currently I see no Plasma related BoFs at https://community.kde.org/Akademy/ > 2020/AllBoF . Do you think we should have some specific BoFs and/or a general > Plasma one? Or maybe you already have a subject that you feel warrants a BoF? > Then

Plasma related BoFs at Akademy 2020

2020-08-03 Thread David Redondo
Hi, currently I see no Plasma related BoFs at https://community.kde.org/Akademy/ 2020/AllBoF . Do you think we should have some specific BoFs and/or a general Plasma one? Or maybe you already have a subject that you feel warrants a BoF? Then feel free to tell us and add it to the wiki. Regards

Plasma BoF at Akademy

2019-08-27 Thread Marco Martin
Hi all, for everybody that plans being present at the plasma Bof at Akademy, I made an etherpad https://notes.kde.org/p/Akademy2019PlasmaBof if (and only if) you plan to be there, please add topics you would like being discussed (with your name near the point) -- Marco Martin

Re: plasma* akademy bofs

2019-08-19 Thread David Edmundson
I put in a placeholder, but we do need to discuss what topics we need and assign them into 1 hour discussions. David

Re: plasma* akademy bofs

2019-08-19 Thread Harald Sitter
David was kind enough to get us set up for Tuesday https://community.kde.org/Akademy/2019/Tuesday On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 5:29 PM Harald Sitter wrote: > > halo > > when shall we do plasma bofs? > last year we had 4 slots on Monday. do we want more? or less? a > different day

plasma* akademy bofs

2019-08-13 Thread Harald Sitter
halo when shall we do plasma bofs? last year we had 4 slots on Monday. do we want more? or less? a different day perhaps? 9:30, 10:30, 11:30, 15:30 are the times we had last year, for reference HS

Re: Akademy BOF Topics

2018-08-03 Thread David Edmundson
Sure. I'll select an hour for generic Plasma + wayland topics, then we'll do this and whatever Marco has ad-hoc within that.

Re: Akademy BOF Topics

2018-08-03 Thread Jan Grulich
On středa 1. srpna 2018 17:01:28 CEST David Edmundson wrote: > We currently have a bunch of slots booked as general "Plasma". > We should split them up into relevant topics people actually want to > discuss so people know when to turn up to what. > > Either post here or update the wiki directly.

Re: Akademy BOF Topics

2018-08-02 Thread David Edmundson
** there will be a lot more wayland things from other people Semi-releated: I have a session on Wednesday to set up wayland with app developers and do any wayland specific bug fixes with them.

Re: Akademy BOF Topics

2018-08-02 Thread Marco Martin
t here or update the wiki directly. > > David let's start to do some list here, then move afterwards to the wiki. on my part, two things that would need vdg people therefore is great for a bof at akademy: * another go at the transformable tablets thing * kai is working on the new shiny notific

Re: Akademy BOF Topics

2018-08-01 Thread Martin Flöser
Am 2018-08-01 17:01, schrieb David Edmundson: We currently have a bunch of slots booked as general "Plasma". We should split them up into relevant topics people actually want to discuss so people know when to turn up to what. In case there is something you want me to remote participate: I can

Akademy BOF Topics

2018-08-01 Thread David Edmundson
We currently have a bunch of slots booked as general "Plasma". We should split them up into relevant topics people actually want to discuss so people know when to turn up to what. Either post here or update the wiki directly. David

Fwd: Your Akademy talk proposal

2018-04-19 Thread Jonathan Riddell
Rejected! - Forwarded message from akademy-t...@kde.org - Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 05:40:26 + From: akademy-t...@kde.org To: j...@jriddell.org Subject: Your Akademy talk proposal Reply-To: akademy-t...@kde.org Dear Jonathan. Thank you for your talk proposal we've received for

Plasma and kai uwe win akademy award

2017-07-23 Thread Jonathan Riddell
Plasma has won the akademy award for best application and especially for kai uwe as one of the hardest working and the best looking developer on the team

Re: Topics for Plasma BoF at Akademy 2017

2017-07-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 12 July 2017 07:13:20 Martin Flöser wrote: > > https://community.kde.org/Akademy/2017/Monday#Room_2.3_-_24th_July > > If you want me to remote participate: the earliest I can be at home is > 16:00. But I need to know in before, my normal arriving time is 17:30. woul

Re: Topics for Plasma BoF at Akademy 2017

2017-07-12 Thread Sebastian Kügler
n is available and I've booked a room 2.3 on Monday > for Plasma BoF. > > https://community.kde.org/Akademy/2017/Monday#Room_2.3_-_24th_July Thanks, Bhushan! -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org

Re: Topics for Plasma BoF at Akademy 2017

2017-07-11 Thread Martin Flöser
on Monday for Plasma BoF. https://community.kde.org/Akademy/2017/Monday#Room_2.3_-_24th_July If you want me to remote participate: the earliest I can be at home is 16:00. But I need to know in before, my normal arriving time is 17:30. Cheers Martin

Re: Topics for Plasma BoF at Akademy 2017

2017-07-11 Thread Bhushan Shah
ommunity.kde.org/Akademy/2017/Monday#Room_2.3_-_24th_July -- Bhushan Shah http://blog.bshah.in IRC Nick : bshah on Freenode GPG key fingerprint : 0AAC 775B B643 7A8D 9AF7 A3AC FE07 8411 7FBC E11D

Topics for Plasma BoF at Akademy 2017

2017-07-10 Thread Bhushan Shah
Hello plasmoids! Akademy is coming up and I thought it's good idea to start the etherpad where we can collect the ideas and topics we want to discuss at Plasma BoF at akademy. Currently room information is not available so we can't book slot but at least we can collect ideas

Akademy 2017 Call for Papers deadline is this Monday!

2017-04-08 Thread Albert Astals Cid
I'm sure you're working on some amazing things you want to let the community know about, so head to https://akademy.kde.org/2017/cfp And submit your proposal! Cheers, Albert

Plasma BoF topics at Akademy

2016-08-22 Thread Bhushan Shah
Hello people, Since Akademy is almost week away, I've started a etherpad [1] So please fill-in topics you want to discuss here.. Thanks -- [1] https://notes.kde.org/p/akademy-2k16-plasma-bof-topics Bhushan Shah http://blog.bshah.in IRC Nick : bshah on Freenode

AppStream and Muon BoF at Akademy 2015

2015-07-28 Thread Jonathan Riddell
Here's the notes I have for the BoF session today Harald to make a chunky server for Matthias and an S3 bucket for it to make ubuntu database of appstream with dep11-generator Package the output of dep11-generator PackageKit needs updated in ubuntu Muon backends: ApplicationBackend currrently u

Re: High DPI support - Akademy Notes

2014-09-25 Thread David Edmundson
As per my part of the tasks I investigated what Gnome/GTK does - GTK is also based on 1x, 2x, 4x scaling. - gnome have a setting in gsettings https://github.com/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/blob/master/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.interface.gschema.xml.in.in A settings of 0 means determine aut

Re: High DPI support - Akademy Notes

2014-09-15 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 14 September 2014, David Edmundson wrote: > Qt's API does this on a per-screen basis. > Qt's XCB backend is global reading from an environment variable. > QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO=2. > Qt does not take guess it from the monitor size because monitor EDID can't > be trusted. we should perhaps

High DPI support - Akademy Notes

2014-09-14 Thread David Edmundson
High DPI Recap: A change is coming in Qt 5.4 which brings in high DPI support at a Qt level. In short; there's a separation from real pixels and "device pixels". All progammers write as though the screen is 96dpi, then sizes are multiplied as appropriate. The clever part is that when loading pixm

Akademy Discussions

2014-09-01 Thread David Edmundson
I started a wiki of things I want to talk about in Brno. https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Akademy2k14 Please add to it, we can use it as an agenda for our BOF. David ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listin

submit proposals for Akademy talks

2013-02-23 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Heya folks :) Akademy is getting closer and it is time to submit proposals for talks. This is your chance to present your work and ideas to the KDE community in person. The call for papers is here: http://akademy2013.kde.org/cfp It has all the details. I'm sure there's something inter

Re: SLC BoF at Akademy ?

2012-06-25 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Le samedi 23 juin 2012 18:22:09 Alex Fiestas a écrit : > So as you can see there are many concerns and ramblings about this topic so > what better to consolidate ideas than a BoF ? +1, will attend this BoF. Aurélien ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma

SLC BoF at Akademy ?

2012-06-23 Thread Alex Fiestas
Hi there ! At the sprint many people raised ideas or concerns of how to integrate SLC on the desktop, these are some ramblings I remember right now: - Systray doesn't work on the desktop when using big resolutions or 2 screens - Some people wanted it on Window Decoration, some people didn't like

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

2010-07-19 Thread Chani
On July 19, 2010 11:19:31 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > speaking of which... *coughs* we still don't have a Welcome Plasmoid, do > > we? > > Yep :) Well, this would be nice to have in the welcome plasmoid, but > it would be a *huge* thing to implement. gotta start somewhere... ___

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

2010-07-19 Thread Ivan Čukić
> speaking of which... *coughs* we still don't have a Welcome Plasmoid, do we? Yep :) Well, this would be nice to have in the welcome plasmoid, but it would be a *huge* thing to implement. -- While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words Dying to believe in what you heard I was stari

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

2010-07-19 Thread Chani
On July 19, 2010 01:55:22 Ivan Čukić wrote: > >> This is just an idea that came to me looking at some mobile GUIs (or was > >> it websites?), but I think that could really work in order to have the > >> common user find out our best features. > >> > >> What do you think? > > > > problems with tho

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

2010-07-19 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 19 July 2010, Ivan Čukić wrote: > > maye there could still be a little bit of shading more. > > like a ight gradient in the bottom part of the marble too and have a 1 > > pixel light border inside the dark border? > > The theme can be easily changed. I'll probably leave it up to Nuno :)

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

2010-07-19 Thread Ivan Čukić
>> This is just an idea that came to me looking at some mobile GUIs (or was it >> websites?), but I think that could really work in order to have the common >> user find out our best features. >> >> What do you think? > > problems with those things is that users tend to find this kind of things > a

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

2010-07-19 Thread Ivan Čukić
> maye there could still be a little bit of shading more. > like a ight gradient in the bottom part of the marble too and have a 1 pixel > light border inside the dark border? The theme can be easily changed. I'll probably leave it up to Nuno :) Cheerio -- While you were hanging yourself on som

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

2010-07-19 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 17 July 2010, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 10:11:46 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > To repeat Chani's question - do you have any idea how to make the more > > prominent? > > Tooltips appearing and suggesting to the user the new features? (with the > button don't show this

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

2010-07-19 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 17 July 2010, Ivan Čukić wrote: > And here is the attachment pretty good. maye there could still be a little bit of shading more. like a ight gradient in the bottom part of the marble too and have a 1 pixel light border inside the dark border? just toughts > > ... i hate gmail's web

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

2010-07-17 Thread Ivan Čukić
A small update: - KIdenticonGenerator can now create QIcons as well as QPixmaps - More states - all QIcon::Modes supported - Test applet - Rather pretty :) (maybe kdegames would like pretty marbles like this :) ) - in plasma's playground under libs (Chani will kill me for this) Todo: - needs

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

2010-07-17 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 10:11:46 Ivan Čukić wrote: > To repeat Chani's question - do you have any idea how to make the more > prominent? Tooltips appearing and suggesting to the user the new features? (with the button don't show this again) I was thinking of a simple, black-ish, transparent tool

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

2010-07-17 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Monday 12 July 2010 13:21:52 Marco Martin wrote: > i basically agree on all points, as probably i already said, the way i > would like more is: +1, and then a little bit more! :) -Riccardo -- Pace Peace Paix Paz Frieden Pax Pokój Friður Fred Béke 和平 Hasiti Lapé Hetep Malu Mир Wolakota Santip

Post akademy meeting

2010-07-15 Thread Marco Martin
Hi all, the logs of the meeting are published here: http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/20100715 Cheers, Marco Martin ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-15 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 15 July 2010, Ivan Čukić wrote: > I'm not gonna be here before 7 (5pm utc) > ok, so let's try from 5pm utc onwards Cheers, Marco Martin ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-15 Thread Ivan Čukić
I'm not gonna be here before 7 (5pm utc) On 15 July 2010 10:23, Marco Martin wrote: > On Thursday 15 July 2010, Chani wrote: >> On July 14, 2010 21:15:23 Ryan Rix wrote: >> > On Wed 14 July 2010 8:41:57 am Marco Martin wrote: >> > > just a reminder for everybody >> > > meeting at 9:00 am UTC >> >

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-15 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 15 July 2010, Chani wrote: > On July 14, 2010 21:15:23 Ryan Rix wrote: > > On Wed 14 July 2010 8:41:57 am Marco Martin wrote: > > > just a reminder for everybody > > > meeting at 9:00 am UTC > > > tomorrow 15th > > > > So.. > > > > I'm a ... how can I put this nicely? A dork. I'm a do

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-14 Thread Chani
On July 14, 2010 21:15:23 Ryan Rix wrote: > On Wed 14 July 2010 8:41:57 am Marco Martin wrote: > > just a reminder for everybody > > meeting at 9:00 am UTC > > tomorrow 15th > > So.. > > I'm a ... how can I put this nicely? A dork. I'm a dork. Right before > sending my "hey, yeah 9UTC WORKSFORME"

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-14 Thread Ryan Rix
On Wed 14 July 2010 8:41:57 am Marco Martin wrote: > just a reminder for everybody > meeting at 9:00 am UTC > tomorrow 15th > So.. I'm a ... how can I put this nicely? A dork. I'm a dork. Right before sending my "hey, yeah 9UTC WORKSFORME" I sent a mail to another list who also had a meeting a

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-14 Thread Marco Martin
just a reminder for everybody meeting at 9:00 am UTC tomorrow 15th Cheers, Marco Martin ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

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

2010-07-13 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)

2010-07-13 Thread Ivan Čukić
> 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 I completely agree. For 4.5 it was not the case since we only scratched the surface. > discoverable for common users (and advanced users alike) what a

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

2010-07-12 Thread Chani
On July 12, 2010 16:27:40 Markus Slopianka wrote: > 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

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

2010-07-12 Thread Ivan Čukić
> separate UI? wuh? 1 - menu of icons and a 'more...' option 2 - standard icon chooser when 'more...' is clicked > I'm starting to wonder if maybe it's not so bad to leave it to the user. After > all, we don't try to auto-name the activity for them, new activities currently > start at "unnamed"...

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

2010-07-12 Thread Chani
On Monday, July 12, 2010 04:48:39 am Ivan Čukić wrote: > > -in the activity configuration, there would be something that looks like > > a combobox to chose icons, that shows just the set of "20 good ones" or > > an "other..." option > > Yeah, we'll need to discuss this one a bit more - whether it

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

2010-07-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, Chani wrote: > On Monday, July 12, 2010 03:04:42 am Markus Slopianka wrote: > > 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 s

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

2010-07-12 Thread Chani
On Monday, July 12, 2010 04:09:44 am Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > > Il 12/07/2010 12:54, Marco Martin ha scritto: > > > On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > > >> On Monday 12 July 2010 11:47:51 Marco Martin wrote: > > >>> or do you have a

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

2010-07-12 Thread Chani
On Monday, July 12, 2010 03:04:42 am Markus Slopianka wrote: > 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 actu

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-12 Thread Ivan Čukić
WORKSFORME as well On 11 July 2010 16:21, Ryan Rix wrote: > On Sun 11 July 2010 7:32:14 am Chani wrote: >> On Saturday, July 10, 2010 03:41:47 am Marco Martin wrote: >> > On Saturday 10 July 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> > > On July 9, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: >> > > > oh, fsck, scrap that: i r

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 Ivan Čukić
> -in the activity configuration, there would be something that looks like a > combobox to chose icons, that shows just the set of "20 good ones" or an > "other..." option Yeah, we'll need to discuss this one a bit more - whether it is good (usability-wise) to make a separate UI for icon choosing.

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

2010-07-12 Thread Alessandro Diaferia
Il 12/07/2010 13:09, Ivan Čukić ha scritto: > 0. Not going to discuss about the reasoning behind identicons again. > > 1. Activities are no more only /desktop-setups-group-of-widgets/ so > making thumbnails can be counter-productive - you can keep the desktop > empty in all activities and still w

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

2010-07-12 Thread nuno pinheiro
On Monday 12 July 2010 12:16:04 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > me realy does not care much as long as we have something that looks > > pretty and is easy to recognize by the user, i proposed to do those > > icons because wen I saw how our Chani chose random icons to represent > > them, i had my typical "you

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

2010-07-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, Ivan Čukić wrote: > 0. Not going to discuss about the reasoning behind identicons again. > > 1. Activities are no more only /desktop-setups-group-of-widgets/ so > making thumbnails can be counter-productive - you can keep the desktop > empty in all activities and still want

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

2010-07-12 Thread Ivan Čukić
> me realy does not care much as long as we have something that looks pretty and > is easy to recognize by the user, i proposed to do those icons because wen I > saw how our Chani chose random icons to represent them, i had my typical "your > icons look soo ugly used like that" feeling...  so I pro

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

2010-07-12 Thread Ivan Čukić
0. Not going to discuss about the reasoning behind identicons again. 1. Activities are no more only /desktop-setups-group-of-widgets/ so making thumbnails can be counter-productive - you can keep the desktop empty in all activities and still want to use other activity-related features. Or if you l

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

2010-07-12 Thread nuno pinheiro
On Monday 12 July 2010 11:53:20 Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > > 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

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

2010-07-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote: > Il 12/07/2010 12:54, Marco Martin ha scritto: > > On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > >> 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

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

2010-07-12 Thread Alessandro Diaferia
Il 12/07/2010 12:54, Marco Martin ha scritto: > On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: >> 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

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

2010-07-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > 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? not creati

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

2010-07-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > 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. >

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 Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, nuno pinheiro wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010 10:35:44 Markus Slopianka wrote: > > Aren't icons supposed to be meaningful? How do those random patterns > > represent activities in an iconic way? > > ___ > > Plasma-devel mailing lis

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

2010-07-12 Thread nuno pinheiro
On Monday 12 July 2010 10:35:44 Markus Slopianka wrote: > 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

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

2010-07-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > 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/listinf

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

2010-07-12 Thread Ivan Čukić
> now, what if $plasmoid wants to use the icon (eg, activity bar)? what if > $application wants to use the icon (eg. when associating something with an > activity)? it'd be nice if I could see the icons when assigning windows to > activities, but I dunno if that'd be possible with autogenerated one

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

2010-07-11 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Ivan Čukić wrote: > 2. We need a list of common activities for Nuno to make icons for. > Ideas? We should get at least 20 :) At the very least the same categories found in the Application Launcher could be used, with the added advantage that they don't need separa

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

2010-07-11 Thread Chani
On Sunday, July 11, 2010 03:20:39 pm Ivan Čukić wrote: > Hi all, > > At aKademy, Nuno proposed a bit different design for identicons used > for plasma activities. > > 1. The identicons should be showed inside a bubble with background and > an overlay. they look pretty :) n

Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

2010-07-11 Thread Ivan Čukić
Hi all, At aKademy, Nuno proposed a bit different design for identicons used for plasma activities. 1. The identicons should be showed inside a bubble with background and an overlay. 2. He will make some default icons for users that want to choose specific ones instead of the automatically

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-11 Thread Ryan Rix
On Sun 11 July 2010 7:32:14 am Chani wrote: > On Saturday, July 10, 2010 03:41:47 am Marco Martin wrote: > > On Saturday 10 July 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > On July 9, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > > > > oh, fsck, scrap that: i remembered that 90% i'll be away 16-17-18 :/ > > > > > > 15th? gi

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-10 Thread Chani
On Saturday, July 10, 2010 03:41:47 am Marco Martin wrote: > On Saturday 10 July 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On July 9, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > > > oh, fsck, scrap that: i remembered that 90% i'll be away 16-17-18 :/ > > > > 15th? gives ryan a day to recuperate and a day before you leave?

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-10 Thread Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
Hello everybody! I hope all of you had a safe trip back home! And no lost passports ;P On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 7:41 AM, Marco Martin wrote: > if it's ok for other people would be perfect :) Just to be sure about the time: it's 9:00 UTC or 21:00 UTC ? Cheers, ___

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-10 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 10 July 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On July 9, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > > oh, fsck, scrap that: i remembered that 90% i'll be away 16-17-18 :/ > > 15th? gives ryan a day to recuperate and a day before you leave? if it's ok for other people would be perfect :) Cheers, Marco Mart

Re: IRC meeting: point of what was done at akademy

2010-07-10 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On July 9, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > oh, fsck, scrap that: i remembered that 90% i'll be away 16-17-18 :/ 15th? gives ryan a day to recuperate and a day before you leave? -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core dev

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