Plasma 2 DataEngine & QML bindings

Sebastian Kügler sebas at kde.org
Thu Jul 4 11:45:32 UTC 2013


Hi Mark,

Thanks for letting me hijack this thread. :)

On Thursday, July 04, 2013 00:01:04 Mark wrote:
> >> > Btw, didn't you write a calendarcomponent which we could use in the QML
> >> > version of the clock?
> >> 
> >> Ahh, you remembered  To be honest, it is bit-rotting somewhere. I
> >> don't even know where to be honest.
> >> Shall i put it in a scratch repository this weekend? Do note that it
> >> was not build with frameworks! It was made earlier this year with KDE
> >> 4.9 i think. 4.10 was about to be released or just released.
> >> 
> >> Besides that "minor detail" it still needs some work to be a full
> >> featured calendar replacement.
> >> 
> >> If t hat's all no issue at all then i happily put some life into it
> >> and push it to a scratch repository
> > 
> > That would be nice. The digital clock (and calendar) need porting, and
> > especially the calendar seems a bit more complex to do. Whoever takes this
> > on should at least find something kind of functional, and not have to
> > start from scratch. If you could dredge it up, that would be really nice.
> 
> Oke, i will then  If i recall correctly then my QML Calender version
> was already on par with the current calendar. Which is indeed very
> complex to even tweak.
> The lines of code in QML for my version is also.. very very few and easy.
> 
> To dig up this memory a little, here is the full API description for
> the "Calendar" component:
> http://community.kde.org/Calendar_API_QML#Calendar_component
> and this is how it looked when working on it:
> http://kdeblog.mageprojects.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/qml_calendar_popu
> p.png (no clock in it ^_-)

That looks indeed pretty good already, seems to be a good base to start with.

Let me know when and where you were able to "dump" it. :)
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