I take back what I said about the drag-n-drop bug. I was able to fix it tonight -- it was a silly bug involving the order in which the event handling functions were called. Of course, fixing that led to other problems with drag- n-drop (incorrect signatures for some of the signals), but I was able to fix those, too, and it seems to work fine now.
I haven't yet pushed my patch(es) up to gitorious, because in order to begin
hacking on this I needed to fix a bunch of warnings related to signal/slot
names that have changed upstream. I wasn't smart enough to commit as I went,
so I need to split those out into separate commits and then I can upload the
patch.
That kills the two major bugs Martin mentioned (the fix for the cut/copy/paste
bug is already on gitorious), which I think were the two biggest outstanding
bugs on the list. I will be working my way through the remaining bug reports
over the next few days to see if I can triage or fix most of the remaining
issues in preparation for a 2.0 release.
I think we can plan to release 2.0 (non-beta) by early August. It is time to
start thinking about:
A. Release notes and Release announcements
There won't be a lot to say, really. But we should let people know
that
basKet is now ready for production use again and give them some idea of the
exciting possibilities the KDE4 port opens up.
B. Updating the web site
Obviously we need to post the release announcement and put up download
links for the new release. We also need updated screenshots, a new roadmap,
C. Putting out a "Call for Developers" complete with junior jobs, project
ideas, and some development tutorials. It's also time to think about which
new projects we want to start and where we want to focus resources.
1. It looks like Carter dropped the ball entirely on Akonadi support,
but I think that would be a big win for us. It would give us compatibility
with knotes and kjots, allow baskets to be stored on a remote server and kept
in sync via IMAP, and allow users to store baskets or notes on personal
devices such as palm pilots and cell phones.
2. Mind-mapping support has also been a much-requested feature. I
know
there is some preliminary support for it in the code already, but I don't know
how far that goes. It might be better to just start over.
3. I think probably one of the coolest project ideas would be to add
Nepomuk support. We already have "tagging" in basKet. If we could store
those tags in Nepomuk, it should be possible to add some really, really nice
searching and filtering options to the basket view.
4. On the current roadmap, one of the advantages listed for porting to
KDE4/Qt4 is that it allows us to more easily add printing support. Right now,
it's possible to export to HTML and print the web page, but this is suboptimal
for a lot of reasons.
5. Undo/Redo support. Someone was working on this already, but I
forget
who....
D. We absolutely MUST get the mantis site taken down. It's confusing our
users, it requires a duplication of effort to handle bug reports, and it is
worse than useless given the amount of spam it receives.
What do the rest of you think? Is August too ambitious? If not, it would help
if we could decide now who is going to be responsible for each of the bullet
points up above...
Thanks,
Robert
On Thursday, June 03, 2010 3:18:29 pm Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Apparently it has really been issue
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233881
>
> Anyway, so
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233877
>
> is closed.
>
> And my last (heavily used) KDE 3 application is gone for good.
>
> I didn't use Basket that much while I had KDE 4 and Basket was still KDE
> 3, cause I couldn't bear the long loading time after first start and as a
> KDE 3 application it wasn't loaded automatically on startup.
>
> But now its again just a click away and if not, it starts fast ;).
>
> That made my day.
>
> Thanks for Basket for KDE 4 ;-).
>
> Ciao,
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