Review Request: Plasmate: Add Tabbox support to the startpage

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On May 24, 2012, 6:46 a.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
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> Antonis Tsiapaliokas wrote:
>     There is still a big issue here.
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>     The template of the tabbox that i have put is located in the kde-workspace/kwin/kcmkwin/kwintabbox/qml/main.qml. The main.qml cannot be installed becuase it uses some Q_PROPERTY elements. Any ideas about how to fix that?
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>     Also i will update my diff, but for a quicker review please look at my comments :)
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     I don't understand what you mean with the Q_PROPERTY elements and what exactly you want to install.
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> Antonis Tsiapaliokas wrote:
>     Since tabbox is written in qml and it uses plasma structure. It should be able to be installed with plasmapkg (which it does) and it should be shown with the plasmoidviewer. But if you run it with the plasmoidviewer, the variables "sourcePath" and "name" cannot be found. Because they are "Q_PROPERTIES". Please take a look at LayoutPreview::setLayout on 
>     kde-workspace/kwin/kcmkwin/kwintabbox/layoutpreview.cpp

of course plasmoidviewer cannot work and will never work. As the name implies plasmoidviewer is for plasmoids and not for KWin :-) You need a dedicated preview capability for KWin switchers (and other KWin elements)


- Martin


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On May 24, 2012, 1:17 p.m., Antonis Tsiapaliokas wrote:
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> (Updated May 24, 2012, 1:17 p.m.)
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> Review request for kwin, Plasma and Martin Gräßlin.
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> Description
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> Hello,
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> This is the first task of my GSoC. I have add the tabbox support to the startpage of the plasmate.
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> NOTES:
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> 1)The service type of the tabbox is "Kwin/Tabbox,Plasma/Applet", because the Plasma::PackageStructure requires the "Plasma/Applet" in order to be able to be used. Also the plasmapkg and the plasmoidview require the "Plasma/Applet" service type.
> 2)Some lines doesn't have any differences because i have remove some whitespaces and "tabs"... 
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> ISSUES:
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> 1)The icons for the tabbox are wrong. I have some issues with my PCs and i cannot open a new session of the KDE.
> So i wasn't able to find the icon. Sorry for that.
> 2)The template of the tabbox that i have put is located in the kde-workspace/kwin/kcmkwin/kwintabbox/qml/main.qml. The main.qml cannot be installed becuase it uses some Q_PROPERTY elements. Any ideas about how to fix that?
> 3)I think that the starting comments of the tabbox should become better. I would prefer something like the "mainPlasmoid.qml"....
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> Diffs
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>   editors/editpage.cpp a331ae5 
>   editors/metadata/metadataeditor.cpp fce65fd 
>   startpage.h 0df4c21 
>   startpage.cpp 9774b48 
>   templates/CMakeLists.txt 6a82772 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105011/diff/
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> Testing
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> Screenshots
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>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105011/s/574/
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> Thanks,
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> Antonis Tsiapaliokas
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