[Marble-devel] Marble "Open Recent ..." Junior Job

[Torsten Rahn]

Hi Glen,

On Monday 07 December 2009 13:36:08 gkaukola at cs.ucr.edu wrote:
> Hopefully nobody is working on the "Open recent" junior job?

I doubt it :-)

Currently there is little work going on in terms of Marble development. I'm 
currently pretty busy with daytime work and it's probably the same with 
others. 
 
> Two things though.  First, I'm perhaps going about dealing with loading
> and saving the configuration in a somewhat goofy way.

Honestly, I don't have much experience with this part of the KDE API myself.
Maybe you could ask on the kde-devel mailing list or on IRC (#kde-edu or #kde-
devel).
 
> Second, I have no idea how to tell if loading a file was successful or not
> as the functions that do so return void.  Thus even though opening an
> empty file fails, it still shows up in the recent list.  Any suggestions
> on that?

No idea. Given that this part isn't exactly marble specific it's better to ask 
on a mailing list that deals with generic KDE development questions. :-)

> Alternatively, would the QT style list of recently opened files be
> acceptable?  From what I can tell that would be a seperated list of file
> names at the bottom of the file menu.

Hm, I'm not quite sure whether I understand your question correctly: Are you 
talking about the visual appearance as a list in the user interface?
If so then I'd prefer to have the items appear in an "Open Recent" child menu 
of the file menu (just like in all other KDE applications).
  

> Cheers,
> Glen Kaukola
> P.S.  A Krazy fix is also attached.  qstring_null.diff.

Great, thanks a lot for the work you are doing and your interest in Marble 
development :-)

Best Regards,

Torsten