[kde-edu]: KNewStuff for KTouch?

[Anne-Marie Mahfouf]

On Monday 4 June 2007 08:59:51 Josef Spillner wrote:
> On Saturday 26 May 2007 09:12:53 Anne-Marie Mahfouf wrote:
> > KNewStuff status: for KDE 4, KNewStuff2 has been implemented in kdelibs.
> > However at the moment I cannot get it work. The download dialog is
> > implemented in KHangMan but does nothing. I am not sure what I should do
> > with it to make it working. Any feedback from Josef whom I CC is welcome.
>
> Hm, does it still not work after my latest commit? There were some
> signal/slot mismatches that I fixed and then download worked for me.
No, it does not work and we are unable to find out why. The dialog is not 
populated thus there's nothing to download.

As you are the only one who knows this code, it would be really great that you 
have a look either at Kalzium or KHangMan and see why the Download dialog 
cannot be populated or give as an example of a working app.
This is very frustrating for us and I don't have the time to dig into KNS2 
code to see what's happening. We tried but it's not easy, we are not familiar 
with this code.

> > Upload should be implemented as well, we need it for KDE 4.0.
>
> Upload definitely works, but it depends on KIO which is still buggy. This
> is why we use the SVN-maintained 'kdedata' repo at the moment. We can
> switch to WebDAV later once KIO works, and then users will be able to
> upload.
What is buggy in KIO? Last time I said that KIO was buggy on IRC everybody 
told me not! Please iof KIO is buggy, send a mail to kde-core-devel and point 
what parts don't work. KIO is very important and should work.
Where can we see it working? Test app?

> > On the server side, we now have a box for KNewStuff (currently our data
> > is on edu.kde.org webspace which is not the best). This box will be set
> > up administrated by Albert (blinKen & KGeography). He'll keep in touch
> > when it's ready. Thanks to Aaron Seigo for getting this into action.
>
> Hmpf, so there are 3 servers available right now:
> - the to-be-introduced data.kde.org, run by me
> - the one run by Albert
> - and a veeeeery big server run by Adriaan, he told me about it on LinuxTag
> and suggested it to be used for GHNS

Adriaan knows about the one run by Albert as it's Adriaan who has it. So 
either it is the same than the one I talked about or it is a new one but in 
any case there's only one. You have been promising a server for years and I 
never had anything. I have been complaining for years about that. We need 
that server on before aKademy. I don't care what server it is as long as the 
data is accessible easily for all KDE developers (to check it and correct it 
if necessary, something that is not provided by kde-files.org for example) 
and there's a guarantee about the server being up steadily.

I am quite discouraged about all that...

Anne-Marie