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[Roger Pixley]

well if there is a notification of what is happening couldn't it just note
press esc to remove highlights?
On Nov 14, 2012 1:33 PM, "Jürgen Appel" <jeeemeeel at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> 2012/11/13 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>
>
>> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Marta Rybczynska <
>> kde-i18n at rybczynska.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>> Very interesting discussion! We do have a framework for content from
>>> developers,
>>> please look in the 'Features' section. However, it does require content.
>>> Some
>>> developers write something special for us, but that is quite rare. It
>>> works
>>> better if we contact them directly. Until now we have only used featured
>>> articles, but I think it is a good idea to add  an option wth a link to
>>> a blog
>>> post or any other material.
>>>
>>> How to make developers more active (they are already reading the digest,
>>> we know that :) is another good question and I am very curius of the
>>> ideas
>>> you may have.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Marta
>>>
>>>
>>> Jürgen Appel wrote:
>>> > addenda:
>>> >
>>> > In case we decide the former is desirable, I also propose to identify
>>> (ie
>>> > create a list) of devs who
>>> >
>>> > *  are vocal (they write blogposts, forums, mails)
>>> > *  do stuff (there are interesting commits)
>>> > * ...
>>> >
>>> > and then approach them personally (mail / irc / voicemail /
>>> telepathy..)
>>> > for
>>> >
>>> > * a short round of questions about what they are working on at the
>>> moment
>>> > -> digest material
>>> > * what we could do so that they personally would interact more with the
>>> > digest (digest tag, the reports we once used to have in the synopsis)
>>> > * what they think we could do for other devs to be more attractiv to
>>> talk
>>> > to ; )
>>> >
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>>
>> Maybe it would be interesting to be able to attach
>> screenshots/screencasts to commits.
>>
>> For starters, further integration of reviewboard would be interesting
>> because we can already fetch screenshots from there and also a
>> more verbose explanation of the change.
>>
>> Aleix
>>
>>
>
> That would be splendid indeed, but it's beyond my expertise.
>
>
> I tried to bring up some things for the synopsis to put more meat in
> there.
>
> *Dear editors, please let me know if you this is worthwhile*
>
> ---
> week of 12th to 18th Nov
> ---
>
> 1)
> one of dhaumann's commit messages said something like "removing search and
> replace highlighting from kate. thats a truly sad day"
>
> Intrigued I asked for more, here is what he said:
>
> (I can give it a shot at editing it into somekind of article if it fits
> our purpose)
>
> <dhaumann>
> Up to KDE 4.9, the search & replace highlights stay, even if you close the
> search & replace bar. You had to press Escape to manually remove them.
> From KDE 4.10 on, there will be a notification bar on the bottom of the
> view
> that tells the user the amount of search & replace matches. This bar stay
> visible for about 6 seconds, then it hides itself automatically. And then,
> i.e. after these 6 seconds, the search & replace highlights are also
> removed.
>
> I wrote "this is a sad day", since I personally liked the previous
> behavior a
> lot. But there seemed to be quite some users who never figured out that
> Escape
> was needed to remove these highlightings :)
>  </dhaumann>
>
> 2)
> Homerun¹, a fullscreen launcher developped by Shaun Reich and Aurélien
> Gateau, made its debut² release. Although it's currently at version 0.1.0,
> it already looks³ functional(4). Integration with Activities (5) is planned
> and other interesting ideas are afloat. Download and build instructions can
> be found at Aurélien's blog²
>
>
>
>
> 1: http://userbase.kde.org/Homerun
> 2: http://agateau.com/2012/11/14/introducing-homerun/
> 3:
> http://agateau.com/2012/11/14/introducing-homerun/thumb_homerun-containment.png
> 4: http://youtu.be/6WcllgzepRY
>
> embedded alternative:
> <iframe width="420" height="315" src="
> http://www.youtube.com/embed/6WcllgzepRY?rel=0" frameborder="0"
> allowfullscreen></iframe>
>
> 5: http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma#Activities
>
> lgs,
>
> Juergen
>
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