KLook - quick preview extension for Dolphin

[todd rme]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Sergey Borovkov
<serge.borovkov at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Sergey Borovkov <sergey.borovkov at osinit.ru>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Frank Reininghaus
>> <frank78ac at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Sergey,
>>>
>>> 2012/8/8 Sergey Borovkov:
>>> > Hi, please take a look at our application for quick file preview called
>>> > Klook. You can read about it here
>>> >
>>> > http://lists-archives.com/kde-devel/28083-several-new-utilities-for-kde-klook-and-stackfolder.html
>>> > Since that time we have added support for pdf, odt and some other types
>>> > using Okular KPart.
>>> > We would like to integrate Klook in Dolphin and make neccessary
>>> > changes/work
>>> > for this. You can find KLook sources here - git://anongit.kde.org/klook
>>> > or
>>> > here https://abf.rosalinux.ru/uxteam/KLook
>>>
>>> first of all, thanks for your interest in improving Dolphin! I might
>>> need some time until I can have a closer look at KLook. If I
>>> understand correctly, I have to apply both
>>>
>>> kdebase-4.8.1-dolphin-klook.patch
>>> kdebase-4.8.3-dolphin-klook-overlay-icon.patch
>>>
>>> from the KLook repository to Dolphin to make it work, right?
>>>
>>> Do I understand correctly that you are only asking to integrate these
>>> patches into Dolphin and want to distribute KLook as a separate
>>> application? Moreover, are you willing to maintain all KLook code,
>>> which includes responding to any KLook-related bug reports that we
>>> will get from Dolphin users? There might be quite a few of them (at
>>> first, I was quite shocked by the amount of bug-mails that I get since
>>> I took over Dolphin's maintainership).
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Frank
>>
>> Yes, we are willing to maintain code and respond to bugreports.
>> About integration - we are not sure this patches are the most optimal way
>> to integrate Klook into dolphin so we'd be grateful if you could take a look
>> and help us in any way with it. Though while they may not be the best they
>> work (we use them in ROSA Linux).
>
> Yes, we are willing to maintain code and respond to bugreports.
> About integration - we are not sure this patches are the most optimal way to
> integrate Klook into dolphin so we'd be grateful if you could take a look
> and help us in any way with it. Though while they may not be the best they
> work (we use them in ROSA Linux).

This is sort of an off-the-wall idea, so I apologize if it is
terrible: what if we allow users to assign arbitrary services to the
three remaining dolphin corners?  Then klook would only need to
provide a servicemenu item, and users could assign it to a corner
themselves?

One disadvantage of this is it lacks discoverability   It might be
possible that, by default, when installed, klook assigns itself to the
first empty corner (if any).  Perhaps there could be a compile-time
opt-in or opt-out switch for this behaviors, so distros can decide
themselves.

This would also make it easier for other, similar applications to hook
into the corners.  And it would make it easy for users to disable the
feature if they don't like it.

-Todd