Review Request: Show recent news in the startup screen

[Jarosław Staniek]

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Using QTextView is good choice. I've tried webkit for a startup screen in Kexi 2.2 and quickly gave up because of slow startup.

Good start, users will be satisfied I think, others would choose to hide the feature. The next step would be to have some in-app user feedback feature.

- Jarosław Staniek


On Dec. 10, 2011, 10:33 a.m., Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
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> (Updated Dec. 10, 2011, 10:33 a.m.)
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> Review request for Calligra.
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> Description
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> This patch adds an extra pane to the startup screen that shows the latest news from the calligra.org and krita.org feeds. I'm hesitating to propose this for 2.4, because of the feature freeze... But I still wanted the patch out for comments. It's not polished yet: the html could be better styled, the feed urls taken from a config file and the whole pane could be made optional.
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> I use QTextView, not QWebView, because QWebView would drag in all of webkit -- but this means that images aren't supported.
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> The code for getting and parsing the feeds comes from Qt Creator, which, ironically, doesn't use it anymore in its latest version. It's LGPL, so that should be fine.
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> I think it can help to connect users to our communities by getting our news out to them, but it also has the disadvantage that we'll track every time the open pane is used, which some users might find offensive.
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> Diffs
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>   libs/main/CMakeLists.txt f669db8 
>   libs/main/KoOpenPane.h 7e7e03d 
>   libs/main/KoOpenPane.cpp 1469131 
>   libs/main/KoOpenPaneBase.ui b824720 
>   libs/main/multifeedrssmodel.h PRE-CREATION 
>   libs/main/multifeedrssmodel.cpp PRE-CREATION 
>   libs/main/networkaccessmanager.h PRE-CREATION 
>   libs/main/networkaccessmanager.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103373/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> Screenshots
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> news section in open pane
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103373/s/357/
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> Thanks,
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> Boudewijn Rempt
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