kcm_devinfo moved to kdereview ( Infocenter KCM )

[David Hubner]

On Friday 29 Jan 2010 07:38:25 Burkhard Lück wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 28. Januar 2010 20:59:44 schrieb David Hubner:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have moved the kcm devinfo from playground to kdereview. Its a solid
> >  based device information viewer that hopefully will replace the devices
> >  kcm in Infocenter.
> > 
> > Features:
> > - Tree like view of all devices.
> > - Information on all devices detectable by solid
> > - Display IP(V4) information and status on NIC's
> > - Automatic insertion and deletion of devices in the tree
> > 
> > At the moment it can replace the Network Interfaces, Devices, Sound,
> >  Processor Information and Usb devices KCM in Infocenter. Hopefully it can
> >  replace the partitions KCM soon as well. ( see TODO )
> > 
> > Todo:
> > - Submitted two patches to Solid, if they are added i should be able to add
> >  volume and storage device, available and used space meters.
> > 
> > Main KDE Libs Needed:
> > Solid
> > Solid::Control (KdeBase)
> > KIO
> > 
> > I am hoping with some input it can be moved into KDE.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> No message extraction (Messages.sh missing).
> 
> Translation word puzzle and empty i18n() call :
> soldevicetypes.cpp:232:  + (netdev->ifaceName() != "lo" ? " (" + actTog + ") " 
> : i18n(""));
> 
> Gui displays "lo (Wired) (I18N_EMPTY_MESSAGE)"
> 
> No tool tips, no what's this help, Help button enabled but no X-Doc_path and 
> no documentation ("There is no documentation available for /index.html."), bad 
> user experience...
> 
> Please send a documentation to kde-doc-english in plain text.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 

Yes, kdepepo brought this up in IRC, i have fixed the empty message problem, Tooltips will be added when 4.4 is out as i want to use Solid::Device::Description() in some of them and its new in 4.4. As for the documentation.. Opps, forgot about that :) Shall write something up this weekend. 

Thanks
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