On martedì 22 agosto 2017 00:18:19 CEST, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
Hi,
KMarkdownWebView today entered KDE Review. This repo contains a kpart for
rendered display of Markdown files, using web technologies (webpage with
JavaScript library which creates HTML from the plaintext handed in).
I consider it rather a hack and would favour something done natively in Qt
(e.g. like the Markdown Okular generator in https://phabricator.kde.org/
D7382). But for now it serves the use-case of providing a webpage-like
rendered display of markdown documents. Especially for the live preview
plugin for Kate & KDevelop currently worked on*.
* https://frinring.wordpress.com/2017/08/21/look-what-you-have-donewwdo
See also https://cgit.kde.org/kmarkdownwebview.git/about/
The separate library libKMarkdownWebView is done for sharing code with a
thumbnailer plugin, whose code yet is to be committed to this repo, as it
resists to work right now.
Initial build on CI looks good:
https://build.kde.org/job/Extragear%20kmarkdownwebview%20kf5-qt5%20SUSEQt5.9/
https://build.kde.org/job/Extragear%20kmarkdownwebview%20kf5-qt5%20FreeBSDQt5.7/
And people on #kde-devel & #kdevelop also reported successful builds and
usage.
Target would be extragear/$SOMETHING, with $SOMETHING possibly "utils".
Initial release planned right after leaving kdereview.
Question: is there any appstream metadata possible for plugins?
Yes, have a look at kio-gdrive or kio-stash as example.
From a quick look, everything works fine.
One minor issue I spotted: if I preview a markdown file in some archive,
the ark preview window has a menu named "No text" instead of "Edit" (with
the "Select All" action). This could be fixed by adding the
<text>&Edit</text> element in kmarkdownwebviewpartui.rc (not sure if
there is another fix).
Cheers
Friedrich
Cheers,
Elvis
