Re: [KDE Usability] Mini Usability Testing Ideas?

2009-10-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> There is a severe issue with setting Desktop Details: >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182823 >> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205330 > > this doesn't require a usability test to figure out, it requires the author of > this control panel to fix his code. there's a maintenance respo

Re: [KDE Usability] Mini Usability Testing Ideas?

2009-10-22 Thread Dotan Cohen
>> there's a maintenance responsibility for >> things you put into kde. i'm at the point with this control panel that if it >> isn't improved for 4.4 i will be removing it. > > For the record I have worked to maintain this code. And I have committed to > fixing > these bugs for the 4.4 release and

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-22 Thread Michael Rudolph
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 21:20, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On October 18, 2009, Michael Rudolph wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 18:22, Marco Martin wrote: >> > not sure about making it an overlay: has it enough "value" to be always >> > shown or can be usually hidden and shown only when needed? >>

How to get Akonadi notes onto Plasma?

2009-10-22 Thread Stephen Kelly
Hi, I'm trying to get notes from Akonadi onto a plasma workspace. I've been reading some of the apidocs and I can't figure out if I need a data engine, whether I need one Plasma::Applet per note, whether I need a 'manager' plasmoid that manages all others, keeping them up to date, and adding/r

Re: How to get Akonadi notes onto Plasma?

2009-10-22 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 22 October 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get notes from Akonadi onto a plasma workspace. > > I've been reading some of the apidocs and I can't figure out if I need a > data engine, whether I need one Plasma::Applet per note, whether I need a > 'manager' plasmoid t

Re: How to get Akonadi notes onto Plasma?

2009-10-22 Thread Stephen Kelly
Marco Martin wrote: > On Thursday 22 October 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to get notes from Akonadi onto a plasma workspace. >> >> I've been reading some of the apidocs and I can't figure out if I need a >> data engine, whether I need one Plasma::Applet per note, whether I

Re: How to get Akonadi notes onto Plasma?

2009-10-22 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 22 October 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Marco Martin wrote: > > On Thursday 22 October 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm trying to get notes from Akonadi onto a plasma workspace. > >> > >> I've been reading some of the apidocs and I can't figure out if I need a > >> data

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On October 22, 2009, Michael Rudolph wrote: > The "disadvantage" would be, that there's no preview area next to his > editor. But it seems it would only be a picture of the latest > save-point anyway. right, so that you can play with it and work on the code at the same time. having to switch back

Re: How to get Akonadi notes onto Plasma?

2009-10-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On October 22, 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote: > In Akonadi I just create an EntityTreeModel which has api for all of that > stuff. If I can forward those calls to plasma somehow, that would be good, > but I need a starting point. Do I create my model in a Applet, or a Data > Engine etc? you're actuall

Re: Review Request: Animator::registerScrollingWidget()

2009-10-22 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Monday 19 October 2009 16:53:28 Adenilson Cavalcanti wrote: > Which brings the question: blur, drop shadows and others should be provided > by plasma. Should we provide a common effects set of classes? I think so > (not sure if this is out of topic). > Isn't already http://api.kde.org/kdesup

Re: Review Request: Animator::registerScrollingWidget()

2009-10-22 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Tuesday 20 October 2009 22:12:59 Adenilson Cavalcanti wrote: > Regarding 'b' (effects), there are some nice effects in KDE (e.g. mirroring > icons in KDE splash screen, soft drop shadows around plasmoids, etc) that > maybe could be interesting to make available to normal users. But this is >

Re: Review Request: Animator::registerScrollingWidget()

2009-10-22 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 22 October 2009, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Monday 19 October 2009 16:53:28 Adenilson Cavalcanti wrote: > > Which brings the question: blur, drop shadows and others should be > > provided by plasma. Should we provide a common effects set of classes? I > > think so (not sure if this

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-22 Thread Chani
> > The "disadvantage" would be, that there's no preview area next to his > editor. But it seems it would only be a picture of the latest > save-point anyway. "picture"? er, the preview is a live interactive preview, not just an image, right? personally the only time I see myself *not* enjoying

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-22 Thread Yuen Hoe Lim
> > er, the preview is a live interactive preview, not just an image, right? > Yeah it is. so if there's a tabbing system, great. but i don't want to see it end up > where > one can only see the code OR the plasmoid. that's simply inane. > Hmmm so we have a previewer dock AND a previewer tab? No

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-22 Thread Yuen Hoe Lim
Oh yeah, since this thread is still running, I have a question - how exactly is saving supposed to work in PlasMate again? I haven't really been thinking about it and just kinda assumed that it'd be like a regular editor - you edit, edit, save (the file), next file, edit, save, and so on, and when

Re: PlasMate ~ UI and other stuff

2009-10-22 Thread Chani
On October 22, 2009 20:57:43 Yuen Hoe Lim wrote: > Oh yeah, since this thread is still running, I have a question - how > exactly is saving supposed to work in PlasMate again? I haven't really > been thinking about it and just kinda assumed that it'd be like a regular > editor - you edit, edit,