things remaining in kdereview: devicenotifier, mediaplayer, kimpanel

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Tue May 5 15:15:26 CEST 2009


On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> the following items are still in kdreview (along with why):
>
> applets/devicenotifier: it still behaves oddly (e.g. scrollbars appearing)
> when made smallish and while it gives a more "native plasma" look still
> feels a bit unpolished; i think this one should wait for 4.4 as it doesn't
> offer any other compelling advantages at the moment?
yeah,
i perhaps would try to plasmify a bit the look of the current one (waiting for 
the new one) i think should be very few lines (and not really a new "feature" 
:)
>
> applets/mediaplayer: this crashes on load for me with the xine phonon
> backend. this should be resolved before unleashing it upon the world. it
> seems like it might be assuming an actual x window is available to it and
> therefore not work properly in a proxy widget?
>
> applets/kimpanel: it uses a kcfg file with its own kimpanelrc when instead
> it should be using values from the applet's config() (or globalConfig()?);
> it uses QDesktopWidget for the panel positioning when it ought to use
> Applet::popupPosition for the default position; configuration is not
> implemented.
>
> unless there can be some progress, i suggest delaying these widgets for
> 4.4.




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