getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
hello, i am 19 years old and my name is giorgos. i have a basic knowledge of c,c++ and gentoo linux administration. i want to contribute for the kde plasma project. i know that qt,c++,javascript,qml programming knowledge is required but the point is that i need some guidiance because i don't

Re: getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Giulio Camuffo
Hi, actually javascript and qml are not required if you don't want to write a plasmoid that uses them or to try to work on QtComponents. You can start by looking at some plasma bug to fix on bugs.kde.org under the product plasma, there are still 1803! :) If you're looking for documentation look

Re: getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
which is the best supported language for making a beautiful plasmoid? i know that i have to learn qt programming,but what exacly?? someone who wants to contribute to plasma what exactly has to do? create plasmoids or fixing plasma bugs or both? i am a newbie as it concerns the whole contributing

Re: getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Giulio Camuffo
2010/10/20 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas terie...@gmail.com which is the best supported language for making a beautiful plasmoid? There's no language to make beautiful plasmoids. All of them can do more or less the same things. c++ is harder while javascript and qml are easier and more safe. I don't

Re: Themeable Small Arrows

2010-10-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, October 19, 2010, Ingomar Wesp wrote: Since this thread has been dormant for almost a week now, I'm a bit unsure as to how to proceed. Should a file a bug at b.k.o? If so, is this feature documented anywhere, so I can point there in my report? i don't think a bug report will do any

Re: Review Request: Adding filename as tooltip for frame applet

2010-10-20 Thread Ingomar Wesp
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/5660/#review8253 --- Since the ToolTipContent is copied in ToolTipManager::setContent

Re: Review Request: activity sessions in ksmserver and kwin

2010-10-20 Thread Lubos Lunak
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/5638/#review8254 --- Ship it! Looks ok. - Lubos On 2010-10-18 12:20:20, Chani

Re: Colour scheme problems after revision 1185467

2010-10-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, October 19, 2010, Ivan Cukic wrote: Any news on this one? Should the change be reverted or fixed some other way? try r1187721. -- 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

Re: configChanged() called *before* the slot connected to KConfigDialog

2010-10-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, October 19, 2010, Ingomar Wesp wrote: While implementing configChanged() in the quicklaunch plasmoid, I noticed (and worked around) the following problem: please do not work around bugs. it usually just causes new bugs later. (and sometimes you end up actually working around your

Re: Usage of constrainted size hints in Plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, October 19, 2010, Ingomar Wesp wrote: I might be opening a can of worms here, because I don't know if the underlying problem is in QGraphicsScene (or its layouts) or in Plasma, but I noticed that Plasma containments like the panel don't appear to use constraints when asking for

Re: getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
thank you for your answers your guidiance was very helpful. i looked at the websvn and i found more javascripts plasmoids than c++ plasmoids. this means that complicated plasmoids need c++ and the easiest one needs javascript? for the moment i will start reading the qt tutorials. There's no

Re: getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Anne-Marie Mahfouf
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 12:28:50 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: thank you for your answers your guidiance was very helpful. i looked at the websvn and i found more javascripts plasmoids than c++ plasmoids. this means that complicated plasmoids need c++ and the easiest one needs

Re: getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
I think you are not taking the right steps. You should first see where in plasma you want to get invoved. You said plasma, what in plasma do you want to do? do you have a specific plasmoid need/idea? (there are already lots of them) Anything else? Then you will look at the appropriate

Re: getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Anne-Marie Mahfouf
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 14:04:02 Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: I think you are not taking the right steps. You should first see where in plasma you want to get invoved. You said plasma, what in plasma do you want to do? do you have a specific plasmoid need/idea? (there are

Re: getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
There are lots of bugs in plasmoids. All you need is to browse bugs.kde.org and see if you can fix some. is it possible to start fixing plasmoid bugs? isn't qt a priority? ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org

R: Re: getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread LucaTringali
Hi Giorgios,happy to see you want to help. There are many ways you can help plasma developing:- Create plasmoids: plasmoid can be created using C++, Python, Ruby, Javascritpt. In thenext KDE version (4.6) it will be possible to create plasmoids with QML. If you want to create plasma widgets

Re: Review Request: Adding filename as tooltip for frame applet

2010-10-20 Thread Sujith H
On 2010-10-20 09:57:56, Ingomar Wesp wrote: Since the ToolTipContent is copied in ToolTipManager::setContent anyway, I wouldn't declare it as a member variable, but just allocate a ToolTipContent on the stack as needed. This way, you wouldn't have to introduce a new member variable

Re: Review Request: Adding filename as tooltip for frame applet

2010-10-20 Thread Sujith H
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/5660/ --- (Updated 2010-10-20 15:47:47.555193) Review request for Plasma and

Re: Review Request: Adding filename as tooltip for frame applet

2010-10-20 Thread Ingomar Wesp
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/5660/#review8275 --- I'm not the maintainer of the applet, so I'm sorry that I can

Where is ui_imageconfig.h and ui_slideshowconfig.h?

2010-10-20 Thread Steven Sroka
I'm trying fix bug #197654. My compiler can't find ui_imageconfig.h and ui_slideshowconfig.h and I can't find it anywhere in svn. Does anyone know where these header files are located? Steve ___ Plasma-devel mailing

Re: getting involved with plasma

2010-10-20 Thread Beat Wolf
I would start with bugfixing. It helps you to know the code and you will discover where help is needed. you will have to setup a development enviroment: http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started it is easier than it looks like on the wiki. then you can go an look at the bugs in plasma:

Re: Review Request: Adding filename as tooltip for frame applet

2010-10-20 Thread Sujith H
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/5660/ --- (Updated 2010-10-20 17:44:12.910669) Review request for Plasma and

Re: Review Request: Adding filename as tooltip for frame applet

2010-10-20 Thread Sujith H
On 2010-10-20 17:24:50, Ingomar Wesp wrote: I'm not the maintainer of the applet, so I'm sorry that I can only comment on the code itself, not on whether it should go into the applet. I noticed a few issues: - The includes are still in the header. Since you've removed the member

Re: Re: Colour scheme problems after revision 1185467

2010-10-20 Thread Ivan Cukic
Should the change be reverted or fixed some other way? try r1187721. It seems to still be using the system's colours, and not plasma's. Cheerio -- There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science. -- Louis Pasteur

Re: Re: Colour scheme problems after revision 1185467

2010-10-20 Thread Jeremy Whiting
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Ivan Cukic ivan.cu...@kde.org wrote: Should the change be reverted or fixed some other way? try r1187721. It seems to still be using the system's colours, and not plasma's. Cheerio Yep, same here. I noticed this a bit ago and Marco pointed me to

Re: Where is ui_imageconfig.h and ui_slideshowconfig.h?

2010-10-20 Thread Jeremy Whiting
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Steven Sroka thedude_10...@hotmail.comwrote: I'm trying fix bug #197654. My compiler can't find ui_imageconfig.h and ui_slideshowconfig.h and I can't find it anywhere in svn. Does anyone know where these header files are located? Steve

Re: Categories

2010-10-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, October 18, 2010, Chani wrote: if I add one there, what else needs to be done (eg, to make it show up in the appletbrowser list)? and what's a decent name for it? PIM is confusing but Personal Information Management is stupidly long... i suppose the question is: what do they do for

Existence of ksmserver_interface.h

2010-10-20 Thread Steven Sroka
Under /trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/generic/wallpapers/image, image.cpp includes ksmserver_interface.h on line 35. Does anyone know where this file is? It isn't being auto-generated so it has to be in svn somewhere.