SoConcepts

[Alessandro Diaferia]

2009/2/19 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>

> On Thursday 19 February 2009, Chani wrote:
> > On February 19, 2009 12:26:10 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Chani wrote:
> > > > >         * savable containments: save / restore to file individual
> > > > > containments or entire layouts; both locally for later restoration
> as
> > > > > well as external export for sharing with others.
> > > >
> > > > is this really enough work for a soc project?
> > >
> > > if the "nice way to share with others" is added to it and the
> > > requirements are to provide usable UI interaction for all steps, i
> think
> > > so. it's certainly not a HUGE project, though.
> > >
> > > > btw, when I was thinking about it during tokamak, I realised that
> > > > stashing them locally is easiest to do by simply leaving them in the
> > > > appletsrc with a flag to disable them - no need to go mucking about
> > > > with files. sharing with other people would be different, of course.
> :)
> > >
> > > the flag idea is elegant, but then there are two different code paths:
> > > one for the "i'm just going to stash this one away for my own use
> later"
> > > and one for "i'd like to share these with others / i'm sharing this one
> > > from my friend".
> >
> > the idea was to not need a filedialog unless the user is exporting them.
> so
> > when I want to load a containment, I don't think "now where the heck did
> I
> > put that thing?" - I just get a list of stashed containments and can load
> > one easily.
>
> the filenames can be generated automatically and the files stored in
> $APPDATA/layouts/ or whatever.
>
> > > for a dialog that shows all available but not-active containments, this
> > > would make a difference to the amount of and cleanliness of the code.
> >
> > how would a dialog show non-active containments if tehy're saved
> somewhere
> > else? are you thinking of having some folder in .kde for them?
>
> bingo :)
>
> > ...I suppose that would be a way to avoid filedialogs and have them not
> in
> > the appletsrc.
>
> more bingo :)
>
> > but then when you load them, does that file get deleted? or
>
> i think so, yes.
>
> > > it would also be a bit less surprising in the case one clears out their
> > > plasma-desktop* configs to not have them remain in the config file.
> >
> > maybe, maybe not. although it seems I've got plasma stuff in share/apps/
> > already, so cleaning out plasma config isn't as trivial as it used to be.
>
> what stuff is in share/apps/ that affects the plasma settings?
>
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Hello guys, as suggested by Marco i write here i'd be interested in
participating to the creation of the MediaCenter.. Unfortunately i'm a
little busy with university till 27th, current month. Just from 27th on,
i'll be back also coding on Raptor so i could help also with mentoring about
it.

P.S.: I'm really ignorant about GSOC, so i'll have to ask around about it to
someone who already attended to it, maybe..

Cheers hackers =)

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Alessandro Diaferia
KDE Developer
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