Microblog port to Akonadi pushed into a branch

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 27 October 2012, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I've just pushed my port of Microblog declarative plasmoid in a branch -
> mklapetek/akonadi_port (kde:declarative-plasmoids). Setting this up needs

sounds great :D

i've still not checked at it, hope will find time those next days

> try microblog too, you can get the new microblog resource from
> kde:scratch/mklapetek/akonadi-microblog-ng - I'm not aiming to have the
> microblog-ng resource in 4.10 though, but it might be finished by then and
> just released separately.

one thing i didn't understand from this email (din't look at the code) are 
both facebook and microblog migrated to proper models?
(hope so ;)

> It's not yet finished, but it's fairly usable already. Here is what works:
>  * listing stuff
>     * facebook goes 3 days back (limit 400 posts) with number of likes and
> comments
>     * microblog for now goes 20 posts only
>  * displaying facebook comments by clicking on the status (probably needs
> better discoverability)
>  * posting to networks
> 
> Issues:
>  * the scrollbar is baaad, unusable even (because of the non-uniform
> delegate height), not sure what to do about it

there is really not much that can be done.
ie is really not possible to know how much the content will be long is the 
delegates are of different size.

there are 2 pseudo solutions:
1) enlarging the offscreen cache of the listview high rnough to have all or 
almost all delegates created (but memory usage skyrockets)
2) have all delegates the same (eliding long text or somethig like that) and 
enlarge the delegate enough only when clicking on it

>  * when using mouse wheel to scroll, sometimes it just stops scrolling and
> you have to either scroll the wheel /really/ fast or drag the list, I'm
> unsure why that happens, I suspect it's the item snapping to the list edge,
> but I don't understand qml that deeply to see how it works exactly

tried with different snap modes?

>  * sometimes the plasmoid can get really really slow or even freeze when
> scrolling very fast as it tries to fetch all the avatars and post images,
> this might need some optimizations

one thing that one should pay attention is to make delegates as little as 
possible so there isn't much to create. if more informations are needed, 
eventually create them dynamically later on mouse click or something like that

Cheers, 
Marco Martin