Re: Review Request: Timer: one click to pause/resume, blinks when paused.

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100521/#review1151 --- good ideas; a suggestion for improvement: instead of just showin

Review Request: Timer: one click to pause/resume, blinks when paused.

2011-02-01 Thread Romário Rios
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/100521/ --- Review request for Plasma. Summary --- This patch does some little ch

feature/topic branches; activities runner

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi all... huzzah for the new git, huh? ok.. so ... feature branches. there is going to be an irc meeting, probably the weekend after next, about the workflow for kdelibs and kde-runtime. i hope we will be able to use that for kde-workspace as well. in any case, i just pushed a new feature bran

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Markus Slopianka
Am Dienstag 01 Februar 2011, 13:17:51 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > Actually, Aaron expressed my thoughts about your comments exactly. If that's the case, you guys really should work on your self esteem. Just because someone tells his opinion he certainly does not necessarily demand his opinion t

Re: Automatic activity switching and other stuff -- thoughts for 4.7

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, todd rme wrote: > either triggers or at least prompts a switch to a particular activity. "triggers" is the operative word here; imho, kactivitymanagerd (KAMD) ought to accept requests for activity changes. the requests should probably include: * the name of the acti

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > (seems even a good jj that someone starting with plasma could do, please > put it into the wiki) by which Marco means this page: http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Tasks -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, todd rme wrote: > > Oh yes, another idea someone had that I forgot to mention: automatic > runner focus. In other words, when focus is on the desktop (or there > are no windows visible), and you start typing, automatically pull up > krunner and enter the text there. >

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 04:40, Marco Martin wrote: > On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dario Freddi wrote: >> Aaron, thanks for putting this to attention. I want to add some other >> points which are relevant to me and I think fit well into this context. >> Sorry for not replying to other points, but I

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:00 PM, todd rme wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> hi... >> >> back when we started the path towards plasma i said that we needed to slowly >> evolve the desktop beyond the desktop folder with icons littered on the >> desktop. >> >> now w

Re: Automatic activity switching and other stuff -- thoughts for 4.7

2011-02-01 Thread todd rme
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 3:49 AM, Ryan Rix wrote: > Hey all, > > Long mail follows, sorry. Really only of interest to Chani, Aaron, Ivan and > other activity folks... :) > > My goal was to bring this up for 4.6 but herp derp, I didn't, so here we go. > > I've been thinking a lot about how to give t

Re: kdeplasma-addons is on git

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Artur de Souza wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to inform that the move of kdeplasma-addons to git and > completed successfully. > Now you can find the new repository in: > > git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kdeplasma-addons > > Thanks a lot to eean for the help and t

kdeplasma-addons is on git

2011-02-01 Thread Artur de Souza
Hello! I would like to inform that the move of kdeplasma-addons to git and completed successfully. Now you can find the new repository in: git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kdeplasma-addons Thanks a lot to eean for the help and to our awesome sysadmins. Cheers, Artur

Re: roadmap of the chime feature in the analog clock

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Steven Sroka wrote: > I don't know if this falls under the category of > "nice-to-have-but-rarely-used" but could there be an option available > that allows chimes to be disabled if the computer is actively being > used (eg. there are mouse clicks or keyboard button pr

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 13:07:58 Dario Freddi wrote: > Aaron, thanks for putting this to attention. I want to add some other > points which are relevant to me and I think fit well into this context. > Sorry for not replying to other points, but I see a lot of enthusiasm, > which is awesome, but

Re: the next step on the desktop: Improving Activities UI

2011-02-01 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 13:45:14 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > - Making KWin's taskswitcher more Activity-aware, for example by grouping > windows in the Boxswitch, by having some "chapter" visualization in > Coverswitch, or columns / grid in Present Windows Easy to achieve as TabBox uses a QAb

Re: roadmap of the chime feature in the analog clock

2011-02-01 Thread Steven Sroka
On 1 February 2011 07:50, John Layt wrote: > On Saturday 15 January 2011 19:29:29 sunny sharma wrote: > >> To make things clear for me i would reguest you guys to tell me the further >> steps that i should take. >> So that i can clear up my mind and come up with a clear algorithm of what >> should

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, J Janz wrote: > However, it'd be quite helpful to have Video, Audio and Image activities, > where, taking the same amount of space at the desktop, I could have > respective folderviews grouped with some more plasmoids to easily provide > me more related content. For ex

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > > if on the other hand we would make possible like windows to send a widget > > to a subset of activities, this would become quite more complexm and i'm > > not sure is really something we want

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: > if on the other hand we would make possible like windows to send a widget > to a subset of activities, this would become quite more complexm and i'm > not sure is really something we want to go intom, but maybe with nice > enough use cases... ;)

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Mario Fux wrote: > Yes. Should be more about documents and not about applications. The user > knows about documents and "files" but shouldn't need to know about > applications. E.g. "click on a document or media file" and not "start > application xyz". for document ce

Re: the next step on the desktop: Improving Activities UI

2011-02-01 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, February 1, 2011, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Activities are indeed one of the big things. I think we've got the basics > right in 4.6, but it's not an obvious thing to integrate into your > workflow, yet. yes, seems like a good target for 4.7... > - easily assigning a window to an Acti

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, J Janz wrote: > became too small for the needs and has to be resized. Desktop and Dowloads > folderviews would be resized/repositioned once to all activities and > activities' specific plasmoids, if grouped, would only take one > resizing/repositioning to each group. >

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > hm, yes, good points. perhaps we could do some sort of melding of what > > the newspaper containment does? a search area at the top, with results > > filling in below it, and a scrollable grid for widgets below that? > > Hm, maybe we would

Re: the next step on the desktop: a widget at all activities

2011-02-01 Thread J Janz
Boy, what a huge thread! I'm sorry I couldn't read it entirely yet (and even less find out about this around the web) and I'm sorry if you guys might have talked about it before but, as don't see it and you've been discussing activities, I want to offer at least something to polish the edges. I mi

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, January 31, 2011 21:22:51 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > * it's not really done for containing applets, would almost mean > > > > dropping desktop widgets: > > - right now it contains widgets in a little panel like strip with > > > > horizontal form factor. now overly pretty. > > > > - ma

Re: Automatic activity switching and other stuff -- thoughts for 4.7

2011-02-01 Thread John Layt
On Sunday 19 December 2010 08:49:34 Ryan Rix wrote: > I've been thinking a lot about how to give the Activity Manager a way to > predict what a user would like to be doing at a certain time, based on > external input, whether that's things like current GPS coordinates, what is > scheduled in KOrgan

Re: roadmap of the chime feature in the analog clock

2011-02-01 Thread John Layt
On Saturday 15 January 2011 19:29:29 sunny sharma wrote: > To make things clear for me i would reguest you guys to tell me the further > steps that i should take. > So that i can clear up my mind and come up with a clear algorithm of what > should be done. [Catching up on my email now that I'm ba

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday, January 31, 2011 18:17:58 Martin Gräßlin wrote: > Ah and they deprecated the systray without having a replacement, but well > not our problem ;-) Au contraire. ;) The replacement is "unversioned javascript snippets" which you dump into some system directory, which then hook into GNOME

Re: the next step on the desktop: Improving Activities UI

2011-02-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
Activities are indeed one of the big things. I think we've got the basics right in 4.6, but it's not an obvious thing to integrate into your workflow, yet. On Monday, January 31, 2011 20:55:56 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ivan Cukic wrote: > > > * have all activities av

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dario Freddi wrote: > Aaron, thanks for putting this to attention. I want to add some other > points which are relevant to me and I think fit well into this context. > Sorry for not replying to other points, but I see a lot of enthusiasm, > which is awesome, but also tr

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Tuesday, February 01, 2011 01:09:54 Markus Slopianka wrote: > Dude, calm down a little. I was blaming no one of anything. Actually, Aaron expressed my thoughts about your comments exactly. It's not about calming down, but about having a useful discussion among Plasma developers. People don't

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Dario Freddi
Aaron, thanks for putting this to attention. I want to add some other points which are relevant to me and I think fit well into this context. Sorry for not replying to other points, but I see a lot of enthusiasm, which is awesome, but also translates to: too much text :D However, preamble: thes

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Mario Fux
Am Montag 31 Januar 2011, 14.42:01 schrieb Marco Martin: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: Morning Finally I have read all the mails of this thread and hope to add some valuable information and no redundant one. > > back when we started the path towards plasma i said tha

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Mario Fux
Am Montag 31 Januar 2011, 21.29:01 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ivan Čukić wrote: Morning > > > hm.. but they don't show up in window titlebar context menus when they > > > are stopped; so a "bug" in kwin, then? it should be possible imho to > > > send windows to any def

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
>> i'm trying to imagine a clever way to make it easy to go from a folder >> returned as a search result to a folderview on the desktop. it could be >> offered as an action on the QueryMatch, for instance, and make it easy to >> "pin" that folder to your current activity layout instead of going thr

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:29, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Ivan Čukić wrote: >> > hm.. but they don't show up in window titlebar context menus when they >> > are stopped; so a "bug" in kwin, then? it should be possible imho to >> > send windows to any defined activity. we

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:22, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, January 31, 2011, Marco Martin wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> > let's try something big and new. let's make that Big Move and step away >> > from ~/Desktop. >> >> to me the biggest dumb thing is