Review Request 119946: Wrap the desktop alternatives UI in a dialog

[David Edmundson]

> On Aug. 26, 2014, 5:49 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
> > desktoppackage/contents/explorer/AppletAlternatives.qml, line 131
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119946/diff/1/?file=307712#file307712line131>
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> >     Why do we need this?
> >     (and if we do need it, it should go on the Switch button too)
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     Edit: I see why we're using it now. Should have read the other patch first.
>     It does need adding to the other button, but this whole thing isn't ideal. It means we have to rely on the Alternatives.qml having magic undocumented properties.
> 
> Marco Martin wrote:
>     the imperative show() and close() don't seem to be defined anywhere, it should just do visible = true; and visible = false; ?
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     Personally I'd rather use an explicit dialog.destroy() rather than having a property that we monitor in code further away. 
>     
>     the code in the C++ then becomes
>     connect(qmlObj->rootObject(), SIGNAL(destroyed(QObject*)),
>             qmlObj, SLOT(deleteLater()));
>             
>     and we can drop the d->alternativesObjects, and the alternativesVisibilityChanged.
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     ah, show()/hide() are from QWindow, nvm (if visible is not redeclared they shouldn't be required tough)
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     "Personally I'd rather use an explicit dialog.destroy() rather than having a property that we monitor in code further away."
>     
>     the problem is that you can't use destroy() from javascript on object that have been declared, you can only for objects that have been dynamically created from js as well.
>     If you try to destroy from javascript the root object, destroy is only a noop and only gives a warning, so as far I know that one can be killed only from c++ unfortunately

Fair point.
In that case I guess this is probably among the best solution we can find.

Fix my first comment, and this is a ship it! from me.


- David


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On Aug. 26, 2014, 5:37 p.m., Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 26, 2014, 5:37 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> Following up on the changes to plasmashell, the dialog needs to used from the QML in the shell package.
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> Diffs
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>   desktoppackage/contents/explorer/AppletAlternatives.qml de99b1ca370c819687230c1bcd54d2839b08dab9 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/119946/diff/
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> Testing
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> Used Plasma Desktop with this shell package.
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> Thanks,
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> Aaron J. Seigo
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