some simple tasks

[Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas]

On 30 July 2011 21:40, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> hi..
>
> in the past we talked about the bug tracker and maintenance, etc. one person
> said they'd perhaps take on a role of "bug selector" and gather a small number
> of issues for us to work on. well, instead of waiting longer for that to
> happen, i decided to grab a few items from the tracker today (and ended up
> fixing a few things myself in the process :)

Actually we will have sometime to make these changes and of course to
have some maintainers.

> if this works out and people actually take on these tasks, then that means
> that this is time well spent and i'll ensure it continues happening.
>
> so, here are the issues, and i think they are things that nearly anyone could
> dive into and fix up, and i'd encourage you to do so:

It is very helpful if you(the more experienced developers) can decide
which bugs are more critical for the plasma and to appoint them to
us.:)


> Issue: Taskbar tooltips appear instantly when you hover on items.
> Reference: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278765
>
> Suggested Fixes:
>
> * Easy:  if compositing is not active (!KWindowSystem::compsitingActive())
> then the time out should not be zero (it should probably not be changed at
> all, in fact). if compositing is active, it should be a smaller number (like
> 50ms or something) to prevent absolutely INSTANT shows.
>
> * Moderate: if the tooltip is going to overlap a popup applet's dialog, the
> tooltip should be move away from it (or supressed?)
>
> Where to start: kde-workspace/plasma/desktop/applets/tasks
> grep for ToolTipContent

I will take this.But until saturday i will not be able to work on it
because i have to do work in the family business.
Can you wait until saturday?

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Tsiapaliwkas Giorgos (terietor)
KDE Developer

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