plasmate:questions about coding

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, April 21, 2011 13:51:13 Tsiapaliwkas Giorgos wrote:
> hello,
> 
> Do u think that the menu "More projects" need some changes?
> 
> 1.It is appeared only if there are 5 projects or more.If i have 3 projects
> and i want to delete them how should i do it?
> I think that "more projects" should always be visible.

we could also provide a context menu with "Delete project" in it .. but it's 
not a very pretty solution.

really, then, "More projects..." becomes "Manage projects" .. unless there are 
more than 5 projects in which case it is "More projects, and manage them" 
which is very cumbersome to write.

there could be a "Manage projects..." link in smaller text to the right of 
"Continue to work on..."? hmm... 

i really would like to keep that first screen's UI clean. is it really 
necessary to be able to clear projects if there are only four or less? maybe 
not.

interestingly:

* removing a project does not actually delete the folder on disk; it just 
removes it from the listing in the window. so there truly is very little to be 
earned by this. perhaps add a "Destroy project" type function?

* deleting a project on disk doesn't cause the project list to refresh; it 
would probably make sense in StartPage to watch the directories that the 
projects are in with a KDirWatch  and refresh the listing when it changes.

> 1b.If "more projects" was always visible should we change its location?



> 2.At plasmate/projectmanager in ProjectManager::confirmDeletion() can u
> explain me what you mean with this TODO?
> 
> //TODO: might want to disallow deleting a currently active project, or
> handle it   gracefully somehow.

if plasmate is open twice and a project is open in one of them and then you 
delete it in the other .. then what?

i think we may want to use a lockfile (see: KLockFile) in the project's 
directory and remove it when plasmate is no longe rworking on that project.

> Also,in the near future we must decide if we want plasmate to support only
> QML or other bindings as well.A lot of the TODOs and FIXMEs are related
> with the bindings.

yes, this is something i want to discuss wiht people at Tokamak 5 next week 
and come to a decision on. do you (or others :) have any opinions on this?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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