Bugs and aktivities

[Mario Fux]

Morning

I try to read kde-commits for several projects and after Ivan blogged about 
his most simple patch I "tried" to find the commit in the mailinglist (strange 
person me, I know). I found it and 2 hours later Aaron sent a patch which IMHO 
could reintroduce the bug, probably.
Ivan: 
--- trunk/KDE/kdelibs/plasma/theme.cpp #1183401:1183402
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@
             }
 
             // try a compressed svg file in the fallback theme
-            path = d->findInTheme(svgzName % QLatin1Char('z'), d-
>fallbackThemes[i]);
+            path = d->findInTheme(svgName % QLatin1Char('z'), d-
>fallbackThemes[i]);
 
             if (path.isEmpty()) {
                 // try an uncompressed svg file in the fallback theme

Aaron:
--- trunk/KDE/kdelibs/plasma/theme.cpp #1183474:1183475
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@
             }
 
             // try a compressed svg file in the fallback theme
-            path = d->findInTheme(svgName % QLatin1Char('z'), d-
>fallbackThemes[i]);
+            path = d->findInTheme(svgzName, d->fallbackThemes[i]);
 
             if (path.isEmpty()) {
                 // try an uncompressed svg file in the fallback theme

Am I right or just to naive and still need to learn a lot about programming. I 
did not read the code of these files but just the two patches. I saw the "z" 
reappearing in Aarons patch which Ivan removed.

Anyway. Thx for patience. Here my other topic: Activities.

Aaron wrote a blog post about activities in KDE and Gnome (which btw already 
has an article on the german pro-linux.de :-). There severel proposed to 
include some default activities.

First I thought: "Nice idea, but an activity is more than starting some 
applications." But then the idea convinced me in another area: KDE software 
promotion.

By providing some activities new users get a showcase of "our" applications in 
different task. E.g. the default "Photo management" activity opens Digikam (if 
installed of course) and Gwenview, the default "Development" activity opens 
Kdevelop, Kwrite/Kate and Konsole, the default "Multimedia" activity opens 
Dragon player, Amarok and Kccd (later PMC ;-).

Another purpose for this default activity are excibition booths and staff and 
new users get informed about this "new" concept in an easy way as they can 
just start and stop different default activities and see the effect: learning 
by doing.

griits
Mario