[Kwintv] Patch for various stuff that I didnt like

[Dirk Ziegelmeier]

On Friday 09 July 2004 19:10, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> On Freitag Juli 9 2004 18:43, Dirk Ziegelmeier wrote:
> > On Friday 09 July 2004 17:12, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> > For me, a KUniqueApp would be sufficient too, but there is no point
> > crippling it to a unique app when it acutally can handle multiple
> > instances.
>
> That's why Noatun and some other apps have that configurable.
OK, I'd like that. Feel free to provide a patch.

> So kdelirc being too dumb to find a running kdetv instance is the fault of
> my system? I don't think so.
But also surely not a limitation or bug of kdetv... The "fault" of your system 
is to use your remote buttons in an incompatible way. Fix KDELIRC instead.

> > I don't apply fixes that make kdetv work on only one more
> > system.
>
> Now that's the attitude one needs... uhm well... no.
Yup. Everything that makes an app work on _one_ more system is bloat. Change 
the offending system instead.

> And still no explanation what this workaround actually works around and
> what's so nice about disabling/enabling sound everytime you resize the
> window :(
Can't explain since I did not write it.

> > > There is no gui to switch to desktop mode so it either isn't always
> > > available or it's not meant to be visible because it's not working (yet
> > > ?).
> >
> > I disabled it because it doesn't work on my system.
>
> Did it work anywhere else?
Don't know, I disabled it in the beta-phase of kdetv since my focus was on 
other things than this view mode and I didn't want to be bothered with bug 
reports about it. Since I always use a nearly unmodified recent SuSE distro 
with no exotic hardware, I expect all bugs I see on my box to happen on many 
other systems (at least those running SuSE) too.

> > > There's another little buglet when you exit kdetv while in tvmode, it
> > > shows the main window (with no contents) before actually exiting. I
> > > didn't look into this yet but may do so later.
> >
> > On shutdown, kdetv saves the window positions. Therefore, it has to
> > switch back to normal mode.
>
> Why not save the last window position before switching modes? That would
> essentially do the same and won't cost too much (as KConfig is buffered
> AFAIK).
If you like, provide a patch. I'm working on other things ATM.

Dirk