Re: Review Request: little faster sycoca

2011-09-29 Thread Jaime
2011/9/28 Rolf Eike Beer k...@opensource.sf-tec.de: Am Mittwoch, 28. September 2011, 15:47:25 schrieb Josef Weidendorfer: On Wednesday 28 September 2011, Jaime Torres Amate wrote: and the removal of a for loop (I'm checking it this has been this way since the beginning, or if fixing it

Re: KDE Frameworks Documentation

2011-09-29 Thread Ignat Semenov
Hello Romain, Thank you for the constructive answers. :) In a case like that, ask the maintainer(s). Usually, developers know the code of their program :) . Also, feel free to ask for help on IRC or through the bugzilla. Sure, this can be done. But if every (possible) contributor asks the

Re: Review Request: little faster sycoca

2011-09-29 Thread Josef Weidendorfer
On Wednesday 28 September 2011, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: What happens if inPos is -1? pos becomes 0 then. Then we iterate over the whole list just to do if (... pos != 0) which will never be true. So for this case (inPos == -1) the whole function can be avoided at all as it will never return

The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Hi, as you probably already know, a decision was recently made that kdelibs 4.7 would be the last 4.x release series of kdelibs, and work would be ongoing in the 5.0 (frameworks) and 4.7 (KDE/4.7) branches only. I think this is a huge mistake, for several reasons (the TL/DR crowd can stop

Re: mentor needed for start-up optimization Season of KDE student

2011-09-29 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Thanks so much Martin and Dario. I'll get you in contact with the student. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher KDE Community Working Group member http://kde.org - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
For example, when we switched our default spell checker in Fedora from aspell to hunspell in Fedora 9 (i.e. 4.0 era), I had to add support for hunspell to kdelibs3, or our users would have had to install 2 spell checkers to use KDE apps! (Even several apps in the default KDE installation

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Donnerstag 29 September 2011 14:01:50 Kevin Kofler wrote: 2. It will be confusing to our users, and even to some packagers, to have a KDE SC 4.8 on kdelibs 4.7. Since almost exactly 2 years we (esp. the promo team) are communicating that Platform/Frameworks, Applications and Workspaces are

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Rolf Eike Beer wrote: (re the support for spellchecking with hunspell) Given that it is now proven and tested code, who stops you committing it into KDE/3.5 branch? What for? There are no plans to do a 3.5.11 or 3.6.0 release, ever, and the one major distribution known to sometimes ship

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 03:27:58 PM Markus Slopianka wrote: On Donnerstag 29 September 2011 14:01:50 Kevin Kofler wrote: 2. It will be confusing to our users, and even to some packagers, to have a KDE SC 4.8 on kdelibs 4.7. Since almost exactly 2 years we (esp. the promo team) are

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Markus Slopianka wrote: On Donnerstag 29 September 2011 14:01:50 Kevin Kofler wrote: 2. It will be confusing to our users, and even to some packagers, to have a KDE SC 4.8 on kdelibs 4.7. Since almost exactly 2 years we (esp. the promo team) are communicating that Platform/Frameworks,

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Scott Kitterman wrote: We did this in Kubuntu and it was confusing. It was also technically challenging. Speaking as someone investing a lot of time in trying to do a high quality job of distributing KDE to end users: Please. Never, ever, do this to us again. +1 The transition from

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Thursday 29 September 2011, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: From what I remember from the desktop summit the picture you draw here is quite an exaggeration of what is actually happening. kdelibs 4.7 is meant to be frozen for new features, but not for bugfixes. Bugfix releases of kdelibs-4.7

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Thursday 29 September 2011, Kevin Kofler wrote: On Thursday 29 September 2011, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: ... The KDE Frameworks 5.0 development is not meant to take forever. In fact I think it's meant to be finished around early 2012, which would leave us with a frozen kdelibs for one KDE

Re: Review Request: little faster sycoca

2011-09-29 Thread Jaime Torres Amate
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102723/ --- (Updated Sept. 29, 2011, 6:25 p.m.) Review request for kdelibs. Changes

Re: Review Request: little faster sycoca

2011-09-29 Thread Josef Weidendorfer
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102723/#review6919 --- Ship it! - Josef Weidendorfer On Sept. 29, 2011, 6:25 p.m.,

Re: Review Request: little faster sycoca

2011-09-29 Thread Commit Hook
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102723/#review6920 --- This review has been submitted with commit

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Stefan Majewsky
Without judging on the other arguments which look very reasonable to me... On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: 2. It will be confusing to our users, and even to some packagers, to have a KDE SC 4.8 on kdelibs 4.7. [...] ...what exactly stops you from

Re: Review Request: Proxy overhaul Part 4: More proxy changes and fixes for KProtocolManager

2011-09-29 Thread Andreas Hartmetz
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102691/#review6927 --- Ship it! Ship It! - Andreas Hartmetz On Sept. 25, 2011,

Re: Review Request: Proxy overhaul Part 4: More proxy changes and fixes for KProtocolManager

2011-09-29 Thread Andreas Hartmetz
On Sept. 25, 2011, 2:20 p.m., Andreas Hartmetz wrote: I'd actually be interested to hear which testing you did. The ResolveHostNamesBeforeProxyCheck option seems strange. In which situations is this supposed to be set / not set? Dawit Alemayehu wrote: The

Re: Review Request: Fix KPasswdServer usage of KWallet

2011-09-29 Thread Dawit Alemayehu
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102729/#review6926 --- Sorry, but this is simply wrong. There is a specific reason why

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Andras Mantia
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 21:43:34 Stefan Majewsky wrote: Without judging on the other arguments which look very reasonable to me... On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: 2. It will be confusing to our users, and even to some packagers, to have a

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Albert Astals Cid
A Dijous, 29 de setembre de 2011, Kevin Kofler vàreu escriure: Hi, as you probably already know, a decision was recently made that kdelibs 4.7 would be the last 4.x release series of kdelibs, and work would be ongoing in the 5.0 (frameworks) and 4.7 (KDE/4.7) branches only. I think this is a

Re: Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Albert Astals Cid
A Dijous, 29 de setembre de 2011, Scott Kitterman vàreu escriure: On Thursday, September 29, 2011 08:01:00 PM Kevin Kofler wrote: On Thursday 29 September 2011, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: From what I remember from the desktop summit the picture you draw here is quite an exaggeration of

Re: Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Albert Astals Cid
A Dijous, 29 de setembre de 2011, Andras Mantia vàreu escriure: On Thursday, September 29, 2011 21:43:34 Stefan Majewsky wrote: Without judging on the other arguments which look very reasonable to me... On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at wrote: 2. It

Re: Review Request: Show removable media in Dolphin's Copy To and Move To context menus

2011-09-29 Thread Christoph Feck
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102657/#review6934 --- The places model is dynamic (as devices can come and go

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:47:22 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote: A Dijous, 29 de setembre de 2011, Scott Kitterman vàreu escriure: On Thursday, September 29, 2011 08:01:00 PM Kevin Kofler wrote: On Thursday 29 September 2011, Heinz Wiesinger wrote: From what I remember from the

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-09-29 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:47:55 PM Albert Astals Cid wrote: ... That is actually Dirk's plan (or at least that is what i remember from the Release Team BoF in Berlin). ... Are the results of this BoF published anywhere? Scott K

Re: Review Request: Proxy overhaul Part 4: More proxy changes and fixes for KProtocolManager

2011-09-29 Thread Commit Hook
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102691/#review6937 --- This review has been submitted with commit

Fwd: Re: Ask for help about PopupApplet in PyKDE4

2011-09-29 Thread Diego Casella ([Po]lentino)
I'm forwarding the email to the mailing list for a couple of reasons, explained below :) 2011/9/26 jialrs_...@126.com Yes, I just change to X-KDE-ServiceTypes=Plasma/PopupApplet and it works well . so thank you very much . This is great, you should've told this in the ml in the first

Re: Allow users to donate money towards bugs

2011-09-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/27/2011 04:12 PM, Felix Rohrbach wrote: If the money donated to a bug is not to motivate the developers, but a way for users to show that they care about a bug, then why don't donate the money to the KDE eV? As far as I know that isn't an

Re: teacher needed for Ada Lovelace Day tutorial

2011-09-29 Thread Tomaz Canabrava
Must be a woman - teacher? what about annma? On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Lydia Pintscher ly...@kde.org wrote: Heya folks :) Ada Lovelace Day is on 7th of October and I and a few other people would love to have a programming tutorial on IRC on that day. It'd be a for women and their

Re: Getting started with KDE development

2011-09-29 Thread Michael Pyne
On Tuesday, September 27, 2011 21:07:40 Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas wrote: Hi and welcome.:) On 27 September 2011 14:09, Picachu Nioto picachu.ni...@gmail.com wrote: Okay, so current status is that I have decided to use kdesrc. While executing kdesrc-build, I got the errors. Log is posted below

Re: Allow users to donate money towards bugs

2011-09-29 Thread Robert Klotzner
Well the basic idea is to be able to make a living by writing free software. But how can it be done, if you give it away for free? Well it does not make any sense to sell copies, because copies are free (the proprietary way), but it does make sense to pay for the development of free software. The

Re: teacher needed for Ada Lovelace Day tutorial

2011-09-29 Thread Lydia Pintscher
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 19:08, Tomaz Canabrava tcanabr...@kde.org wrote: Must be a woman - teacher? Not necessarily but it would of course be nice. what about annma? She said she can't promise she'll be available that day so can't do it. Cheers Lydia -- Lydia Pintscher KDE Community

Re: Getting started with KDE development

2011-09-29 Thread Picachu Nioto
Anyone got a chance to look at my earlier email. Thanks, Picachu -- Forwarded message -- From: Picachu Nioto picachu.ni...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 4:18 AM Subject: Re: Getting started with KDE development To: kde-devel@kde.org Hello everyone, Thanks for the

KPluginSelector: Problems with the configCommitted() signal

2011-09-29 Thread José Expósito
Hello list!! I have a (probably very very simple) problem with the KPluginSelector class. As I see in the documentation http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kutils/html/classKPluginSelector.html the configCommitted() signal must be sent whenever the configuration is save in disk... But I'm

Seeking a starting point.

2011-09-29 Thread Cecil
Hello, I just wrote a huge email asking about where to start to make some personal changes to the kickoff and classic menus. Then I found the source and things started becoming a little clearer. However I would still love to have a solid starting point in my reading, before I start beating up

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-29 Thread Christoph Feck
On Wednesday 28 September 2011 19:46:14 Bart Kelsey wrote: I'd like to draw attention to the fact that KDE's bug triage process is lacking. Thanks for your offer to help with bug triage. There are over 4 bugs/wishes waiting for a comment, a confirmation, or a patch. You can also request

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-29 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-09-28, Bart Kelsey elba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, I'd like to draw attention to the fact that KDE's bug triage process is lacking. Hi Bart You are absolutely right that we get more bug reports to any component than we can currently handle, as you have noticed yourself. I

Re: invest money in free software?

2011-09-29 Thread Sven Burmeister
Am Donnerstag, 22. September 2011, 17:33:59 schrieb Sam S.: On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 4:13 PM, David Narvaez david.narv...@computer.org wrote: Hi, just wanted to add this link with an interesting (and valid?) point of view

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-29 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Hi, On Wednesday, September 28, 2011 19:46:14 Bart Kelsey wrote: I'd like to draw attention to the fact that KDE's bug triage process is lacking. Did you get in contact with the bugsquad, they'll probably appreciate your help. It's frustrating for users submitting bug reports when an easily

Re: Allow users to donate money towards bugs

2011-09-29 Thread Sven Burmeister
Am Sonntag, 25. September 2011, 10:56:21 schrieb Lydia Pintscher: I'd like to recommend watching Stormy Peter's excellent talk titled Would you do it again for free. It has some very enlightening points about this topic. To quote from her blog: