Plasmate previewer, again =P

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Diego Casella ([Po]lentino) <
polentino911 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------
>> From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org>
>> To: plasma-devel at kde.org
>> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:23:26 -0600
>> Subject: Re: Plasmate previewer, again =P
>> On September 10, 2009, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote:
>> > As we could not have the meeting on that time as Diego and Aaron were
>> busy
>> > at Tokamak,
>>
>> actually, we showed up on irc at the stated time and waited around ... :/
>>
> yup ...
>
>>
>> > It'll be nice to have some status update. Diego what things are
>> > remaining to be implemented, i.e. which were planned but are not yet
>> > implemented?
>>
>> we put together a really short list of "things to do next"; Diego, do you
>> have
>> that still?
>>
>> Of course !
> Since up to now the code structure is not as good as we want, the basic
> idea was to build a core class that handles our UI stuff, a ProjectManager
> class to create/load projects and keep track of its files, and other stuffs.
> As soon as everything works well, first we have to provide a secure way to
> upload the package ( the idea is to use QCA to sign the package ); second,
> that is, when an user download a package from our server, we have to alert
> the user with one of these signals ( iirc :P ):
>
>    - Green flag: package signed by both KDE and the developer ( =
>    completely trusted );
>    - Blue flag: package signed by KDE, but not by the developer;
>    - Yellow flag: package signed by the developer, but not by KDE;
>    - Red flag: package is not signed ( = install it at your own risk ).
>
> How is it known that a package is signed by KDE? Is there some existing
mechanism or it has to be worked on?


> Also, some improvements on Plasma::PackageMetadata should be done ( if
> there are no issues with BC ):
>
>    - Made method's name more coherent ( for example, if the entry we want
>    to retrieve is "X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name" and the getter is called
>    "PluginName()", why the setter is named "setName()" ? it should be
>    "setPluginName()" ! );
>    - extend the API in order to handle more entries ( for example, up to
>    now there is no API call to write the "X-Plasma-MainScript" entry, so i'm
>    forced to use QFile to open the metadata.desktop file, and then append that
>    string manually O_o )
>
> Actual state of PlasMate:
> * At present, the TimeLine is broken again because the regexp fix made @
> Tokamak was wrong: in fact the regexp "^commit [0-9a-ef]+$" always returns
> the entire list of commits! I've adjusted it with "commit\\s[0-9a-f]{40}\\n"
> and now works perfectly but, since splitting a string with a regexp also
> removes the matched expressions, the sha1hash is not present in the
> resulting list so I'm waiting to write an elegant solution before committing
> :P
> * The editor works pretty good, I tried it and works perfectly.
>
Nice, I see that its now opening the dialog in the project's dir, sweet :)


> * The previewer is awesome, but its possible to test it with a "fake"
> package and see if it load it correctly ?
>
Right now previewer/test can be used to view installed applets. We are
unable to "execute" an applet currently.


> Ok, i think that's all, now i want your opinion/ideas =)
> Have a nice day,
>
> Cheers !!!
>
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