Plasmate status

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Yuen Hoe Lim <yuenhoe86 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yep, it doesn't seem to accept regular expressions - but a string
> containing every permitted character..
>
>
> http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/kdeui/html/classKRestrictedLine.html#f30d883fc60f67be39e8ffa039842cd6
>
> I've tried, and it actually does allow me to type every character in
> the expression (like '[' and '$') =/ It doesn't seem like a pretty
> thing to do 'qwertyQWERTY012345etcetc' so maybe we could try a regular
> KLineEdit and do some form of validation?


For that we've to find out what characters make a valid project name (if
there is a restriction as such, say, on name of a Plasmoid).
Help wanted from others. Guys?

Also, It'd be very nice If you're logged on #plasma whenever you're online
as it helps a lot in discussion. (I have many times tried to catch you
online, but in vain ;)


>
> On 7/20/09, Shantanu Tushar Jha <jhahoneyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Yuen Hoe Lim <yuenhoe86 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> On the previewer end we're more or less done function-wise, as far as
> >> I can tell :) Since previous update, I've added support for loading
> >> plasmoids by path (so you don't need to install them beforehand), as
> >> well as modified the tool menus so that it uses a KMenu instead of the
> >> current overlay when the previewer is too small. The rest should just
> >> be aesthetic improvements... or am I missing something?
> >>
> >> I'm presently trying to find out why we can't type anything into the
> >> textfield that appears when we try to create a new project, but not
> >> having much luck since I'm clueless with gui designer ui's =(
> >>
> >
> > As I found out, its a problem with the validChars property in the
> > projectName widget in startpage.ui which is of type KRestrictedLine. It
> > seems it doesn't accept regular expressions ( I tried [a-z] but it only
> > accepted 'a' when I typed). Currently validChars is set to ^[\\w-\\.]+$ .
> >
> > We could put qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm there, but I think there should
> be a
> > better way. Any ideas?
> >
> > (I've also CCed this mail to the author of KRestrictedLine widget).
> >
> >
> >> I agree that a directory tree on the sidebar would be more useful by
> >> the way, that's what I always envisioned before :P How bout having the
> >> current sidebar items as smaller, overhead buttons instead? I don't
> >> think we need that much real-estate for just buttons :P
> >>
> >> On 7/14/09, Diego Casella ([Po]lentino) <polentino911 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hi guys,
> >> > other two weeks are gone, so it's time  to sinc() with each other
> about
> >> > PlasMate status, IIRC =)
> >> > Now the TimeLine loads all the commits within the current branch, and
> >> also
> >> > all the commits that lead
> >> > to that branch ( I'm thinking to make  that feature selectable by
> user,
> >> to
> >> > decrease the widget length ).
> >> > For each item, a tooltip shows the author who made the commit, the
> date
> >> and
> >> > the stored message.
> >> > In the top of the list is located the current working state of the
> >> project,
> >> > marked as "Not Saved".
> >> > The lower item holds the working branch, and its tooltip shows the
> other
> >> > available branches.
> >> > I also modified the GitRunner class, because the previous
> implementation
> >> > caused the app to not close.
> >> > Now I'm working on handling properly signals and slots, so we can have
> >> > an
> >> > almost working timeline
> >> > within this week !
> >> > By the way, do we *really* need the sidebar ? Each item can be found
> in
> >> the
> >> > final release of plasmate
> >> > under the menubar, so I was wondering if we can replace it with
> >> > something
> >> > more useful like a directory tree list ...
> >> > Let me know about this, and also your ideas; lets make PlasMate rocks
> =)
> >> >
> >> > Cheers !!
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> ----
> >> Jason "moofang" Lim Yuen Hoe
> >> http://yuenhoe.co.cc/
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
> > http://www.shantanutushar.com
> >
>
>
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