[Nepomuk] Review Request: Add button to force the file indexer update all folders

[Vishesh Handa]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Gabriel Poesia <gabriel.poesia at gmail.com>wrote:

> Would putting the button in the "Indexing" tab be a good idea? In the
> advanced tab, I would have to add another QGroupBox to contextualize the
> button (or it would appear too different from the Memory Usage box), but I
> don't know what to put in the group besides the button, or its title (a
> short label, maybe, but the button is quite self-explanatory, so it looks
> unnecessary). I'm not good at UI design either.


I think another group box under advanced would be okay. Just that button is
okay, you can add a spacer and a button if you want. I'll ask some of the
UI experts to clear it up later.



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> 2012/12/4 Vishesh Handa <me at vhanda.in>
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>> http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107553/
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>> Review board has a way to add screenshots. It's kinda cool.
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>> Anyway, I'm not sure if adding it to the status widget it a good idea. The same status widget is also uses in the Nepomuk Controller. I was hoping that it could be added in the advanced section of the kcm. We could even add other advanced stuff like clearing all the indexed data.
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>> I should point out, that I'm not so great with UI stuff.
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>> - Vishesh
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>> On December 2nd, 2012, 6:34 p.m., Gabriel Poesia wrote:
>>   Review request for Nepomuk, Vishesh Handa and Sebastian Trueg.
>> By Gabriel Poesia.
>>
>> *Updated Dec. 2, 2012, 6:34 p.m.*
>> Description
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>> Add a button to the KCM Nepomuk as suggested in bug #303658. When clicked, the indexer executes the updateAllFolders() method.
>> The widget was placed in the Nepomuk Repository Details dialog, along with the "Suspend/Resume File Indexing". I'm not sure if it violates
>> any design principles behind KDE, KCM or Nepomuk (if it should have an icon, for example, like the two other buttons in the dialog).
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>>   Testing
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>> Compiled, installed, ran kcmshell4 nepomuk. The file indexer was idle.
>> Clicking the button changed the status message to "Scanning for recent changes in [...]".
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>>   *Bugs: * 303658 <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303658>
>> Diffs
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>>    - nepomuk/kcm/statuswidget.h (088799e)
>>    - nepomuk/kcm/statuswidget.cpp (36e66f5)
>>    - nepomuk/kcm/statuswidget.ui (46e4d26)
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>> View Diff <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107553/diff/>
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Vishesh Handa
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