On Plasmate's recent project list

[Diego Casella ([Po]lentino)]

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> Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
> http://www.shantanutushar.com
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> ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ----------
> From: Yuen Hoe Lim <yuenhoe86 at gmail.com>
> To: plasma-devel at kde.org
> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:01:00 +0800
> Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Subject: Re: On Plasmate's recent project list
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>> Er, there will be a folder name conflict only if there is a project name
>> conflict, right? Only If I already have a project "abcd" and I import which
>> already contains "abcd", there will be a conflict. Correct me if i'm wrong.
>>
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> No, there is no hard link between the two (project and folder names), and
> they can be different. Plasmate's current state allows you to have two
> projects with the same name, but folder names obviously must be unique.
> Allowing duplicate names and hiding folder names has actually spared me a
> slew of other potentially sticky conflict situations.
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> Correct, the project <---> folder naming convention is suggested, not
required ( even though I wouldn't break that :P ).
So,if we bump into a conflict situation, we rename one of the two folder,
good. Now, my question is: how the user will be able to distinguish the
"current" and "backup" version of his/her project ?
I mean, in the project list we can't show the directories name because they
must be hidden, so an appropriate way is to pick up the project name from
the "Name" field metadata.desktop file, and surprisingly this will be 99%
times the same, since previously there was a conflict, so most likely the
user will fill a bug report because he/she can't distingiush between the two
projects, and he/she is forced to look to the sources in order to find the
correct one.
So, what about showing the "Remove,overwrite,ignore" buttons, or adding more
informations in the project list (for example adding the date of last
modification could be enough to distinguish between and old backup and the
current project, at least when there are few projects). Any other ideas ?


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