KInfoCenter rewrite in Kdereview

David Hubner hubnerd at ntlworld.com
Sun Apr 18 17:45:42 BST 2010


On Monday 05 April 2010 23:07:23 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
> 

Fixed all bugs and issues that have been brought up. Just need to modify the KInfoCenter manual and do a manual for the infosummary KCM. Does anyone know at what point i move this from kdereview to trunk? 

Thanks
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