Subject: PlasMate questions

[Diego Casella ([Po]lentino)]

>
> ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------
> From: Yuen Hoe Lim <yuenhoe86 at gmail.com>
> To: plasma-devel <plasma-devel at kde.org>
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2009 18:59:43 +0800
> Subject: PlasMate questions
> Yeah, it's me again >.< So I've been spending my free time hacking at
> PlasMate (mainly editor/previewer related atm) and have more than a couple
> of questions that I hope you kind people can give me a hand on :)
>
> First up is a programming question. I'm trying to get the editor (katepart)
> to remember its size (or relative size) so that after the user adjusts the
> editor size once, it will be that size whenever the editor is activated. I
> can't do it :( I've tried the obvious - saving the width and height and
> attempting to restore it later - but I don't know how to restore it,
> resize() doesn't work, and I don't want to use setFixedSize or
> setMinimumSize which would prevent/limit further resizing by the user. I've
> also tried not deleting the kpart and reusing it everytime - but then I
> discovered that QMainWindow takes ownership of your widget once you set it
> as central widget, so eventually QMainWindow happily deletes the kpart, and
> plasmate crashes. Any other alternative methods I can try to achieve this?
> It seemed like it would be easy to do at first =(
>

This is an annoying issue, but now I think it's more important to fix other
bad behaviours, in my opinion ( for example, the editor should prompt the
user to save the file when closing PlasMate, instead of losing unsaved
changes )


> Second, I think minus some rough edges (like the abovementioned issue), the
> previewer+editor is mostly done (for plasmoids anyway). I'm thinking it's
> probably time to start making progress on the publishing widget. Do we have
> a mockup or something of that sitting somewhere that I can refer to to get
> me started? :)
>

IIRC, there were rumors about using gitorious to publish the projects, but I
haven't heard no one for further confirmation.
Regardless this point, we have to provide a way to sign/verify the projects
( using QCA ? ) accordingly with the example i wrote some time ago (
blue/green/yellow/red flags for trusting policy ).


> Third, I'm guessing that the 'New' buttons in the editor tree should not
> behave like they currently do. I'm guessing they should really pop up a
> dialog asking for a filename for the new file? I'm also thinking that this
> dialog should probably be the same as the one you see in dolphin/konqueror
> when creating a new file, so... is there a possibility of reusing some code
> somewhere for that?
>
> Fourth, I noticed that katepart creates backup files (terminating with a
> '~') whenever plasmate autosaves a file, and then that backup file shows up
> in the editor tree and makes it look ugly :P It clearly has to go, my
> question is does it make more sense to just get plasmate to ignore files
> ending with a '~', or should I find a way to stop katepart from creating
> backups?
>

We can also tweak this issue by filtering and skipping these files when
creating the tree view; i dont really want to disable the backup feature (
what could happen if the power goes down ?)


> Thanks in advance :)
>

cheers =)

>
> ----
> Jason "moofang" Lim Yuen Hoe
> http://yuenhoe.co.cc/
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