On November 23, 2009, Sandro Andrade wrote: > > * i see that it uses Qwt in one class. this is likely to diminish both > > the user base of it as well as it's "plasma-ness". does > > Plasma::SignalPlotter give you something similar? if not, then a check in > > the CMakeLists.txt file for Qwt is required > > I've tried the SignalPlotter but apparently its time-dependent > approach doesn't properly fit the needs in commit history. I need to > include data which are sparse in time and that would be harder to > achieve. So, I keep using Qwt, cmake module was included, and checked > in CMakeLists.txt.
i see; unfortunate since it really won't blend in with the rest of plasma at all. perhaps we need a proper graph widget in libplasma at some point. oh well ... not the end of the world in this case. > > * why is "enable transition effects" an option? > > I've kept this as an option because disabling effects makes view > transition faster. i really don't see the point of this at all. what benefit is there in making the view transitions faster? if they are too slow, speed them up, don't offer an option. > > * it seems that whenever the data is updated, the "slide show" starts > > from the beginning again; it looks a bit odd to have it start all over > > again. could it simply keep going with the slideshow instead of > > restarting it? > > That would be harder to implement since changing configurations often > implies in views being created or removed, making views tracking a little > bit difficult. Anyway, I think configuration operations aren't going to be > quite often. iirc, it wasn't on configuration change, it was when new data arrived from the online sources > > * it would make the widget much more immediately approachable if there > > were some project presets shipped, such as ones for kdelibs, kdepim, > > kdegames, plasma, etc. do you have thoughts on how that would be best > > achieved? > > Presets were created to almost all KDE main applications. See > kdeobservatorypresets.cpp. These are loaded at first run, and can be > removed, edited. New projects can also be added as previously described. cool... you should move this into kdeplasma-addons -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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