Review Request: KDE Observatory (new plasmoid)

[Sandro Andrade]

Some yet missing tasks:

- Plasmoid icon: the initial idea is a keyhole having its inner area
filled with a blue gradient with the KDE logo. I'm trying this but I
wouldn't rely in my artistics skills :)
- Resize features: content isn't yet resized if plasmoid is resized.
- Make it work in a panel: PopupApplet ? I'm investigating.

Thanks,
Sandro

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Sandro Andrade
<sandro.andrade at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just to inform you it's in kdereview for 4.4. This wasn't created in
> reviewboard, sorry for the misleading subject :).
>
> Sandro
>
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 4:26 AM, Sandro Andrade <sandroandrade at kde.org> wrote:
>> Summary:
>>
>> Plasmoid for visualizing development activities in KDE projects. The
>> motivation comes from the (now inactive) KDE Commit-Digest web site
>> and the KDE Observatory aims at provide such information as up-to-date
>> as possible in the plasma desktop. The designed architecture uses two
>> main components for accomplishing this task: collector and views. A
>> collector is responsible for acquiring data from a specific data
>> source, such as lists.kde.org or ebn.org, and storing such information
>> in a sqlite database. A view provides a visual representation of
>> collected data. The plasmoid's configuration options allow for the
>> specification of the watched projects (by means of their commit path
>> and Krazy report path), selection of which projects should be depicted
>> in each view, and some parameters for timers, view transition effects,
>> and the extent of days to be analysed in commit history.
>>
>> Implemented features:
>>
>> - Commit Collector (acquiring data from lists.kde.org) - with incremental update
>> - Krazy Collector (acquiring data from www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org)
>> - "Top Active Projects" view (more committed projects)
>> - "Top Developers" view (more active developers - in terms of commits #)
>> - "Commit History" view (graph showing commit # evolution through the
>> specified commit extent)
>> - "Krazy Report" view (showing a per project and per file type Krazy
>> information)
>> - Timed transition of views
>> - Slide effect for view transition
>>
>> How to use it:
>>
>> 1) Add the plasmoid (plasmoid name = plasma_applet_kdeobservatory)
>> 2) Open configurations
>> 3) The page "Projects" exhibits all created projects. By clicking the
>> "Add" button a new project can be created (some pre-fabs would be good
>> here - Plasma, Amarok, etc). Each project has a name, a commit subject
>> (prefix used in subject field of lists.kde.org?l=kde-commits), a Krazy
>> report path (http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/krazy/reports/<krazy-report-path>/index.html),
>> and an icon.
>> 4) The page "Views" shows the enabled projects in each view (Top
>> Active Projects, Top Developers, Commit History, and Krazy Report). By
>> default, new created projects are enabled in all views.
>> 5) The page "General" provides configuration for the commit extent to
>> be collected in lists.kde.org (be prepared for longer acquisition time
>> when using higher values - limited to 30 days), the synchronization
>> delay, some parameters for view transition, and a general
>> enabling/disabling/re-ordering of all projects in a view.
>>
>> The Commit History view depends on Qwt (yes, I'm still changing
>> CMakeLists.txt :).
>>
>> Thanks for any feedback,
>> Sandro Andrade
>>
>
>
>
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> Sandro Santos Andrade
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> Distributed Systems Laboratory (LaSiD)
> Computer Science Department (DCC)
> Federal University of Bahia - Brazil
> KDE developer - KDevelop project
>



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Sandro Santos Andrade
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http://sandroandrade.wordpress.com
http://liveblue.wordpress.com
Distributed Systems Laboratory (LaSiD)
Computer Science Department (DCC)
Federal University of Bahia - Brazil
KDE developer - KDevelop project