[Panel-devel] The minipager in KDE4 isn't working yet. I'd like to help fix that.

[Lubos Lunak]

On Thursday 17 August 2006 20:00, Matt Broadstone wrote:
> On 8/17/06, headrift <headrift at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I couldn't find a TODO in
> > kdebase/workspace/kicker/applets/minipager, although there
> > is one a little higher up, in kicker/.  The TODO_KDE4 there indicates
> > that there are a number of things in kicker which need to be made to
> > work.
> >
> > Reading the warnings and errors from building the minipager, there's also
> > several things there that need to be done - moving to Qt 4 and porting to
> > DBus seem to be the big warnings, and an error that starts with a
> > constructor.
> >
> > So, my question:  is someone already working on these issues, and if so,
> > where can I help out?  If not, where's the best place to jump in and make
> > the minipager compile?
> >
> >  - Ross
>
> Hi Ross,
>    The minipager cannot be fixed currently because of issues with KWin
> and KDesktop in kde4. Well, I haven't fully checked on KWin yet, but
> for sure KDesktop.. furthermore those applets theoretically will not
> be used in the future. Aaron said he's got some time this month to
> work on the design docs so I suggest you wait a little bit for that
> stuff.

 What do you mean, issues with KWin? AFAICS the pager applet doesn't compile 
because somebody was so smart to remove KSharedPixmap and move it only to 
KPager. As for not using it, how are people supposed to use virtual desktops 
then?

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