Reply - Retweet features for Microblog applet

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 28 October 2009, Thelwyn wrote:
> Hi list !
> 
> Sometimes ago I decided to learn a bit of Qt and C++, and after following
> some tutorial I looked for more practical stuff to practice on. So I looked
> into the microblog applet code since I use it and tried to code a "reply"
> and "retweet" features/buttons , (well explained on this wish:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177906), that you find in most
> microblog client.
> 
> It has not been as easy as I expected, but I guess that being totally
> unexperienced wasn't helping :)
> 
> Anyway here is the result I got (small animated GIF):
> http://tinyurl.com/yjk4oze
> I must add that the buttons are not displayed in my own twees/dents
> 
> Now I have questions:
> 
> - I did it at first to start to understand how applets were working, and
> learn a bit of Qt/C++, but now I wonder: is this something you think is
> worth to be integrated in the microblog applet?

yes, i was planning adding them, so it would save me work, yay!

> As I said above there is a wish about it on b.k.o, and this is a common
> feature, but maybe the applet is intended to remain simple? or someone
>  would have already started to work on it another way?.. or, or , or any
>  reason?
> 
> - A part from the above consideration what do you think of the 'design',
>  the location of the buttons and the way it works? Also I'd like to show

probably under the user icon, that is now empty space would be better, but 
let's get the code in and figure out layouting after (i wanted to clean that 
mess a bit porting to anchorlayout btw)

>  the code I wrote to you so that you can criticize it  (being a total
>  beginner, i probably wrote an horrible piece of code :) don't hit me)  Is
>  this the good place to share the code? Or can i post it to the review
>  board?

reviewboard is the best place

> Thanks in advance for your answers/advices, please remind I'm totally new
>  to this, so pardon me if I didn't post the good place the good way.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Bou
> 


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Marco Martin