Plasmate status

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hi,

I've spent a few days working on various aspects of Plasmate, our little Add-
On creator application. Newest screenshots:

http://vizzzion.org/stuff/screenshots/plasmate-alpha3-startpage.png
http://vizzzion.org/stuff/screenshots/plasmate-alpha3-editing.png

Here's some updates which you might find interesting:

- I've reworked the startpage to be more explanatory and inviting
- You can now also work on a local project, without importing it (this seems 
  very useful for working on QML applets that are already in Git, or on the 
  harddisk
- The editor now automatically loads the mainscript, when a project is opened: 
  more instant-hackability
- I've converted plasmate to a git repo, git clone kde:plasmate
- Licensing has been sorted, it's all GPLv2+ now
- I've packaged Plasmate for openSUSE, installable packages are can be found 
  here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/vizzzion/openSUSE_11.4/i586/plasmate-0.1alpha3-1.1.i586.rpm
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/vizzzion/openSUSE_11.4/x86_64/plasmate-0.1alpha3-1.1.x86_64.rpm

More details:

The docs, as we all know are a bit lacking, but since Plasmate used techbase 
embedded pages, it gets better in Plasmate as we add it there. I've started 
adding small code examples to 
http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/QML/GettingStarted#Layouts 
; Quite fun, actually ... writing small examples in Plasmate, with its 
previewer and then explaining what happens on techbase, including the code.

Editing local projects in place is I think a valuable addition, since it 
allows to just open a plasmoid directory checked out from git. So it doesn't 
go through the savesystem, we can probably make the timeline work with it.

The timeline feature doesn't work for me. Adding a save point doesn't seem to 
do anything, the timeline stays empty. I've not debugged that yet, so it might 
be an easy fix. (Not sure though in how far that part is supposed to work in 
general.)

The nice thing is that the basic workflow works quite well, you're started 
with a new or existing plasmoid in no-time, instant gratification ahead.

I'd like to include the editor's config dialog, its default settings should 
probably be synched with the proposed QML coding style (tab width, etc).

That's it for now  :)

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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