Review Request: create only the required files during the load of the project

[Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas]

> On Oct. 1, 2012, 10:34 a.m., Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > i think this change is necessary and can go in. however, the model MUST then be fixed to at least show all non-created files described in the package as well otherwise things like creating new images or populating the default settings will be hard/impossible for the user and making that easy is plasmate's #1 purpose in life. :)

> the model MUST then be fixed to at least show all non-created files described in the package

It will be fixed by then :)


- Giorgos


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On Oct. 1, 2012, 8:46 a.m., Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 1, 2012, 8:46 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Description
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> Until now plasmate was creating all the Package::files() on the load of the project,
> with this patch it will create only the Package::requiredFiles().
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> Also we **have** to s/Package::files()/Package::requiredFiles(), because right now
> 1. the Plasma themes are broken:
> plasmate creates all the listing files of the theme package with QFile,so QSvgRenderer can't
> open them, and if the user adds one more foo.svgz file, he will end up with 2 foo.svg files and
> even if he deletes the corrupted one it will be recreated on the next load
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> 2. plasmate forces the user to have a main.xml and a default-configrc, also even if the user deletes
> those files, on the reload they will be recreated.
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> I haven't s/Package::dirs()/Package::RequiredDirs() because we don't have any ui element in order to
> inform the user that the foo dir(for examples the images or the animations dir) exists, so he will have to
> figure it out and create it manually and even if he does the dirs won't appear in the plasmate's package model.
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> The only drawback of this patch is that the user won't see anymore the description of the file but he will see their names.
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> I believe that for the moment we should add this patch and to fix the PackageModel issues after the beta.
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> P.S.: I replaced some deprecated methods.
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> Diffs
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>   packagemodel.cpp d9cc35e 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106665/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas
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