[KimDaBa] New snapshot ready - please test

[Guy Zelck]

Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:

>Guy Zelck <gzelck at tiscalinet.be> writes:
>
>| Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
>| 
>| >Guy Zelck <gzelck at tiscalinet.be> writes:
>| >
>| >| Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
>| > | | >OK, we are almost there, KimDaBa release 1.1 will be next Thursday.
>| 
>| >| >
>| >| >So now its time for all you guys to make your contribution, please download
>| >| >the latest snapshots from http://ktown.kde.org/kimdaba/snapshots/
>| >| >and try it out, and report any problems you see.
>| >| >
>| >| >I also changed the program used to generate the packages with, so please
>| >| >let me know if there are any problems with unpacking and compiling.
>| >| >
>| >| >Kind Regards
>| >| >Jesper.
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>| >| >
>| >| >
>| >| >
>| >| >
>| > | | Hello Jesper,
>| 
>| > | | I ran your new snapshot through the rpm creation mill and found that
>| > there
>| 
>| >| were no *.html files anymore under /opt/kde3/share/doc/HTML/*/kimdaba.
>| > | | Rpm creation failed because of this. The actual compilation of the
>| > program
>| 
>| >| itself worked.
>| > | | Could it be your makefiles failed to create them?
>| 
>| >There indeed is, they might or might not be placed elsewhere,
>| >
>| Not elsewhere either.
>| 
>| > as I said, I
>| >changed packing program, to conform with the rest of kde-extragear
>| >packages.
>| >
>| >Another possibility is that you did download the -noi18n package. This one
>| >is merely meant for snapshot releases, and do thus not contain i18n nor any
>| >docs.
>| >
>| Nope, I used the full tarball.
>| 
>| I've just been using the newly compiled kimdaba binary and found nothing
>| weird, no crashes (kde 3.1.4 & qt 3.2.3) even when I asked for 5000
>| thumbnails per window. Searching still works fine too.
>| 
>| I just don't like the fact that the thumbnails are tilted 45 degrees and
>| have a jagged edge on a black background (they look like stamps). Is there
>| a way to get them back to normal? I looked in the settings but did not see
>| it. Probably they were tilted by one of the previous kimdaba snapshots.
>Hmm yes this sounds like something a bug some weeks ago did.
>They were note rotated by this version were they?
>
No, this version is ok.

>
>The only cure to this is to edit the index.xml file, searching for angle,
>where the angle is no 0, 90, 180, or 270
>
Thanks for the tip.

>If you have trouble doing that, please send me your index.xml file, and
>I'll fix it by hand.
>
Don't bother Jesper, I fixed it, it was the angle parameter (-40) 
indeed. You have more important things to do I can imagine.

>
>| Then, the configuration of shortcuts does not mention the slideshow
>| shortcuts. For a 1.0 release it would look professional if we could have
>| consistency here.
>you are referring to the shortcuts on the viewer page, right?
>No these are not configurable.
>I tried to get them configurable, but after more than half a day of work, I
>gave up.
>
OK, maybe some other day.

Good night,
Guy.