KInfoCenter rewrite in Kdereview

[David Hubner]

On Tuesday 06 April 2010 02:19:32 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> On Monday 05 April 2010 20:07:23 David Hubner wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have mostly finished the new rewrite of kinfocenter. The rewrite was due
> > to a lot of legacy code in the old version, it was going to be more
> > trouble to modify the old code than write new code.
> > 
> > Some new features of the kinfocenter are:
> > 
> > - Getting some consistency between system settings.
> > - Summary page
> > - removes all legacy code and uses model/view
> > - new summary KCM
> > - Better organisation of the KCM's
> > - Export
> > 
> > There is still a few things to do at the moment, i need to redo some of the
> > documentation as well as write new parts and add Whatsthis information to
> > the KCM's
> > 
> > Some things to take note are:
> > 
> > - The network interfaces viewer is not complete yet, it will appear blank.
> > - You need trunk due to patches added to solid and KdeUI
> > - Only summary has export functionality at the moment. It will be added to
> > most of them. - The tooltips need a little more info.
> > 
> > Apart from that i feel it is complete. If possible could i get some
> > feedback on what people think? Its in kdereview under kinfocenter2.
> > 
> > Thanks
> 
> I just had a quick look at kinfocenter1's copyright issues pointed out by 
> Krazy, and apparently they still haven't been fixed -- furthermore, some small 
> files, such as Modules/memory/memory_{fbsd,linux,netbsd,...}.{cpp,h} don't 
> even have a copyright header at all.
> 
> I'll see if it works fine on FreeBSD later.
> 

Thanks, i shall have to contact the authors of the old modules and see if i can change the licensing on the old modules. Could be a sticky problem if i cannot contact them :(  

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