KNewStuff2 merge

[Mike Dean]

It would be really nice if KNewStuff did prefetching, to avoid the annoying
lag, and caching of already retrieved information.  Either getting rid of
displaying the progress dialog, or integrating it into the KNewStuff UI
would be a very welcome improvement as well.  Making these small changes,
IMHO, would give KNewStuff a much more polished look and feel.  If you've
already done this, sorry, and kudos!

Mike

On 3/26/07, Josef Spillner <spillner at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Monday again, update here:
>
> Am Montag, 19. März 2007 12:57 schrieb Josef Spillner:
> > The only monday which according to the release plan allows the
> substitution
> > itself is March 26 (aka SF-1).
>
> KNewStuff2 does now mostly work, although it looks everything but pretty.
> I
> could rush it in later today, but I wonder if this is sensible, since no
> applications except for KHangMan have been evaluated for porting yet.
>
> Some input from the release team would be nice in order to know how far
> the
> subsystem freeze deadline could be stretched in such a case. I'd welcome
> an
> extra week for the tests especially with existing data providers.
>
> There's also someone (ruphy) working on something called a "Plasmagik API"
> which would assume a certain packaging and installation format based on
> the
> KNS2 engine. If this turns out to be useful, it might well be the primary
> API
> for apps in the future. However, this is even more off the schedule right
> now, and still in development. This API is mostly what you can find in the
> KNS2 namespace on techbase, while KNS2 has a nice doc/ directory.
>
> Josef
>
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