[Kwintv] Contributing more to qtvision

[George Staikos]

On Tuesday 17 December 2002 12:52, Neil Macvicar wrote:
> I want to work some more on qtvision, and am wondering how up to date the
> webpage is on the "Known Not Working" section. Also, a description of the
> bugs there would be benificial, as then I would know what to look for :) I
> was going to fix the Mute (partially broken) bit, but I have no idea how it
> is partially broken.

  Check the file LAUNDRY in kwintv3/qtvision.  It's the laundry list of things 
that have to get done at some point.  Some of them have names attached, some 
do not.  I think the alsa plugin is listed there so we can probably remove 
it. :)  The best thing you could do is pick something self-contained and 
unassigned and try to work on it.  Make sure you get a feel for the 
architecture first though.  Regarding that, I am changing the Manager classes 
to be non-singleton and making the QtVision class more central (containing 
pointers to the managers, etc).  


some commonly reported bugs:

- changing channel with keyboard numbers (hitting the number itself) often 
leaves numbers stuck on the screen.
- volume toolbar is not removeable
- some of the mainwindow client modes may not work correctly (especially video 
desktop, which once worked)
- keyboard problems
- configuration file saving is really broken in some ways.  when switching 
video plugins, it often "forgets" the list of channels that should have been 
saved for that plugin, and reprompts for a default channel list.  it also 
seems to forget the previous "source" for a given plugin.
- channel importing from kwintv channels does not work correctly apparently

  Hmm that's what I can think of off-hand.  There are lots of bugs in the v4l 
driver but it's still under heavy development and I'm probably the only one 
who understands some of the voodoo in there right now. :-)  The Xv driver is 
in good shape and I don't think it really needs much more work at all.

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George Staikos