[Kde-bindings] KDE/kdebindings/csharp/plasma

[Arno Rehn]

On Monday 25 January 2010 21:07:22 Richard Dale wrote:
> On Monday 25 January 2010 07:55:41 pm Arno Rehn wrote:
> > On Monday 25 January 2010 19:37:21 Richard Dale wrote:
> > > On Monday 25 January 2010 06:27:10 pm Arno Rehn wrote:
> > > > SVN commit 1080147 by arnorehn:
> > > > 
> > > > Remove analog clock examples. They fail to compile after plasma
> > > > updates
> > > > 
> > > >  anyway.
> > > > 
> > > > CCMAIL: kde-bindings at kde.org
> > > > 
> > > >  M  +1 -1      CMakeLists.txt
> > > >  M  +0 -2      examples/applets/CMakeLists.txt
> > > >  D             examples/applets/analog-clock (directory)
> > > >  D             examples/applets/plasmaclock (directory)
> > > > 
> > > > [snip]
> > > 
> > > Oh - should we try and get them working? There is still some work to do
> > > on the plasma C# code although it compiles.
> > > 
> > > The problem is that the QGraphicsWidget class has changed quite a lot
> > > in Qt 4.6, and the PlasmaScripting_QGraphicsWidget.cs class is
> > > supposed to implement the  IGraphicsItem interface. But I didn't have
> > > time to get that working and just commented it out (see below), and I
> > > think it will mean the casts in the code to QGraphicsItems won't work.
> > > I'm not sure what the problems with the clocks were as I didn't have
> > > time to investigate, but it could be related.
> > > 
> > >     public class QGraphicsWidget : QObject{
> > > 
> > > //    public class QGraphicsWidget : QObject, IQGraphicsItem {
> > 
> > Yes, we should definitely try to get the Plasma stuff working.
> > But I think the plasma clocks aren't really suited to serve as a plasmoid
> > example - they just became rather heavy. They depend on a shared library
> > (libplasmaclock, which we had to translate as well) and together with all
> > 
> >  the configuration dialog stuff spread over plasmaclock and analog-clock
> >  this makes it a bad example, imho.
> 
> Yes, the ruby plasma clock doesn't work either as far as I can remember and
> so isn't a good example. But it might still be worth investigating why
> they didn't compile in case the problem was non-clock specific.
> 
> > I think we should take something lighter to translate to C#, like the
> > 
> >  pastebin plasmoid from kdeplasma-addons.
> > 
> > Just as we're at it: how about moving all the examples out of kdebindings
> > 
> >  and into the new kde-examples branch or whatever it is?
> 
> I'm not sure what advantage that has. I think is a good idea to have an
> example of each type of plasmoid as a confidence test so you know you've
> built the bindings correctly. I'm feeling a bit generally worn out with
> KDE 4.4 and would like to change as little as possible and just try and
> get everything working. Maybe we can think about better examples for KDE
> 4.5.
Yes, it was (and still is) quite a hurry to get kdebindings into an acceptable 
state for KDE 4.4. I hope we can do better for KDE 4.5.
Is there anything else apart from the PlasmaScripting support in C# that needs 
work?

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Arno Rehn
arno at arnorehn.de