Re:Mouse Shortcuts (was: Qt 5.1 feature set and freeze date)

2013-02-13 Thread Rick Stockton
Executive summary: No, there will be no such project for Qt 5.1. And very likely, for Qt, never. On 02/13/2013 07:43 AM, Mark wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Knoll Lars lars.kn...@digia.com wrote: Hi everybody, I would like to start the feature freeze Qt 5.1 middle of March. big

Re: Mouse Shortcuts

2013-02-13 Thread Rick Stockton
On 02/13/2013 12:01 PM, Mark wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Rick Stockton rickstock...@reno-computerhelp.com wrote: Executive summary: No, there will be no such project for Qt 5.1. And very likely, for Qt, never. On 02/13/2013 07:43 AM, Mark wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:49 AM

Re: Does KDE Desktop want a full-width mouse/pointer Button State mask?

2012-07-11 Thread Rick Stockton
On 07/10/2012 07:17 AM, Rick Stockton wrote: It's awfully late for an API change to Qt5, but this would be an awkward Backward Compatibility problem to attempt in later Qt5 Releases: Should Qt5 present a 32-bit Button State mask? Oops, that's WRONG. My initial 32 mouse buttons updates already

Does KDE Desktop want a full-width mouse/pointer Button State mask?

2012-07-10 Thread Rick Stockton
It's awfully late for an API change to Qt5, but this would be an awkward Backward Compatibility problem to attempt in later Qt5 Releases: Should Qt5 present a 32-bit Button State mask? ** Background ** As you all remember, I added more mouse buttons for MouseButtonPress and

Re: Re: Package Dependcies List on Techbase

2012-05-09 Thread Rick Stockton
Please excuse the Top-Post, my suggestion is VERY short: The terminology Optional Dependency sounds like a good term for these situations. (At least to me, a native 'en-us' person.) On 05/08/2012 06:18 AM, David Jarvie wrote: On Tue, May 8, 2012 1:07 pm, Allen Winter wrote: On Tuesday 08 May

Re: Shortcuts (WAS: [Development] api changes)

2012-04-16 Thread Rick Stockton
The main text of my reply is at the bottom ... On 04/16/2012 05:15 AM, Michael Jansen wrote: On Sunday, April 15, 2012 08:40:38 PM Thiago Macieira wrote: On segunda-feira, 16 de abril de 2012 01.33.31, Stephen Kelly wrote: The only applications that should do that are the workspace fixture

Re: Re: Shortcuts (WAS: [Development] api changes)

2012-04-16 Thread Rick Stockton
, schrieb Rick Stockton rickstock...@reno-computerhelp.com: I disagree. Things such as Window Position, Size, and the need to Move a Window (to expose a UI keyboard) may also be fundamental for Applications on Handheld Platforms (as being described in another ... GTK seems to agree with me; all

Shortcuts via Mouse Buttons, etc.

2011-12-27 Thread Rick Stockton
Partly in reply to Albert Astals Cid and Thomas Zander, on the KDE list (December 26): I am aware of the timing requirement (But Thomas- thanks for the reminder, in case I HADN'T been.) Since I'm the person who will write the code and doco, I HAVE TO have an idea how to make it work ;) I've

Forum Discussion Page for 'mouse shortcuts'

2011-12-25 Thread Rick Stockton
Thomas, Todd, and Albert: this is pointed at you guys for suggestions. Thiago, it's mostly FYI at this point. Final design and subsequent coding in Qt, starting in about a week. I have created a Qt Devnet forum Thread for work on Mouse Shortcuts. It's at

More devices into the Shortcut system...

2011-12-20 Thread Rick Stockton
It is time for us to Fish, or Cut Byte on two alternative ways to introduce Mouse-Oriented Shortcuts into Qt5 and KDE-Next: Todd RME has been suggesting a new design- oriented around DBUS. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that coding. Todd, if your design gets a more favorable review

Is BugID 48062 worth all this?

2011-11-22 Thread Rick Stockton
I need advice- do the masters of KDE consider https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48062 to be important? It's got a ton of votes, but I'll SWAG that a majority opf those votes were really votes for https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96431 -- get higher-numbered mouse buttons into the

I have ALL MOUSE BUTTONS WORKING for xcb and xlib :)) on qt5

2011-11-09 Thread Rick Stockton
My thanks to you, MGrasslin, Aaron, Todd rme, and Thiago for coaching me towards this achievement. The new code is small, and VERY simple. We have no API changes (at least, not yet--- we should implement a mouse button mask "getter" as a new feature, but that's for later

Just kwin, or do the whole thing?

2011-10-03 Thread Rick Stockton
A kde-core post as well, because I'm offering to resurrect the Dead. ;) Looking ahead, it's going to be awkward mixing Qt names for Buttons = XButton2, while using X11 names for higher numbers. I'm new to C++, but pretty solid on everything except polymorphism and certain asepcts of

gamer mouse button shortcuts (LONG)

2011-09-30 Thread Rick Stockton
I've been inspired by the 'shortcut doc' Thread on kwin ML. This concerns mouse devices with extra buttons driving our desktop, and creating mouse-based shortcuts. SAD STORY You may recall that, many months ago, I was encouraged to try a Qt enhancement for this. Qt consumes X11 ButtonPress

re: kdelibs/master: zap it?

2011-09-22 Thread Rick Stockton
In reply to Allen Winter (and Hugo, and Aaron): I feel that Allen's idea/suggestion is really good -- having MYSELF made the mistake of 'poking around' in the master branch for a while. If it had been completely empty of files, I'd have gotten a really big clue instantly. BTW, Will a '4.8'

X11 mouse buttons in qt4, qt5, and KDE: please, PLEASE review this design.

2011-07-27 Thread Rick Stockton
This is inspired by Todd RME's post in Vol 99, Issue 83. Todd's post in kde-core-devel refers to the original bug number, QTBUG-16092, but that bug is so riddled with unworkable baggage that I cloned another. The real work will be in QTBUG-19238. QTBUG-19238 currently contains start-up work on

mouse buttons - my view from X11 upwards into Qt

2011-02-20 Thread Rick Stockton
PREAMBLE: Hi. I'm the X11-oriented mouse guy whom Todd mentioned in his last call for GSOC, what about shortcuts? post (Topic #1 in Vol 95, Issue 69). His focus is within KDE itself, while I'm focusing from the lower layers, moving up into KDE Development tools, API, and UI from those lower