[Panel-devel] Kickoff / KDE 4

[Robert Knight]

> this kind of consistency is probably nice for the user

Yes that makes sense.  One thing that would be useful though is the
ability to separate folders from devices.  See this screenshot:

http://www.robertknight.me.uk/files/kde/kickoff-kde4-rk/kickoff_kde4_system.png




On 25/09/2007, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:
> Le mardi 25 septembre 2007, Robert Knight a écrit :
> > > Is this in any way related to this:
> > > http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2898
> >
> > That was an effort to port the original KDE 3 code base which hasn't
> > seen much activity since the initial port, presumably because the
> > developers were being kept busy with other things.
> >
> > I started with it initially but given that it is quite tied to Kicker
> > and the Qt3 / KDE 3 frameworks (using the Qt 3 support classes) I
> > decided it would be easier to start afresh.  I dropped a line to the
> > original developers so they are aware of this new implementation (in
> > fact, I think it was Dirk who suggested at Akademy to do this).
>
> Ok, cool stuff.
>
> BTW, since I'm at it, you might want to take a look at KFilePlacesModel and
> KFilePlacesView. I still need to get around making them more robust (in
> particular on the model side), but at least the model could be used in
> the "computer" view. The benefit of doing this would be that this way it'd
> be
> in sync with the filemanager and the filedialog, this kind of consistency is
> probably nice for the user (one and only one places system to use).
>
> Regards.
> --
> Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
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