New to list, make in applet

[David Baron]

On Monday 08 December 2008 02:43:44 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 07 December 2008, David Baron wrote:xperimental and backports.
>
> > > > While the code is not voluminous, it is longer than appropriate for
> > > > such a posting. If the list permits inclusions, I can do so.
>
> some things that pop out at me:
>
> * neat idea and something that i'm sure many will find useful ...
Yep. I started this because I needed it--no phone on the desk by the machine 
and hard to handle a telephone or cell phone while playing with the computer.
>
> * instead of having all those different svg's, you could put all the
> elements into just one svg. more efficient all around, and probably save
> your applet a few lines of code. obviously not critical =)
I am very new to this and the only documentation is the .h files in 
/usr/include/plasma. I need better documentation. Anyway, this sounds good but 
... tell me how :-)
>
> * lots of C like code in there, such as dealing with c strings. never fun
> compared to Qt ;)
Yep. A lot of this was lifted from "pure" c stuff like xringd and some 
examples of modem program that worked. I would eventually like to get it all 
into Qt4. I tried replacing the ringer with QSound but this is tied to NAS, 
not alsa and such.
>
> * popupPosition is probably wrong because you are calling it before setupUi
> is called and so the size of the dialog is incorrect. also, if you move the
> applet the position the position will be incorrect. so i'd recommend move
> the popupPosition call to ToggleGUI where you show it. (well, only when
> it's about to be shown, obviously; no point in moving it when it's just
> going to be hidden =)
Great. Next thing to try.
>
> * for the crashes, try your applet in plasmoidviewer (plasmoidviewer
> <pluginName>) and see if you can get a backtrace from that. note that
> plasmoidviewer does store the settings, so it's a fine way to emulate "on
> next login"
The applet does not crash into the viewer. The excerpt cited was after an hour 
sitting on the screen!

Big outstanding issue is getting icons into the UI.