On 10/22/2012 10:16 AM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
one thing i would like to have merged for 4.10 is the qml port of kickoff.
i have been looking at it past few days, and it seems to have most of the
features, even tough is still quite rough, i'm not 100% sure it may be ready
yet.
i've fixed some things in last couple of days, it still has some layout and
painting problems (sometimes elements don't seem to repaint correctly)
right now even if not really far i don't think is really merge-able yet.
Thanks for the invitation! I'll be delighted to serve as a tester,
although my ability to code is so limited that you probably DON'T want
me to try any coding. ;) If Kickoff-QML doesn't make it for 4.10, then
I'll port my 4.9.3 fix forward to kickoff-widget 4.10. But for now, I'm
hoping that Widget-QML takes over.
also the code organization doesn't seem to be that great (it has a quite
complex logic and there is a context menu copy in each delegate that makes
things quite heavy)
i think it should have a minor refactor on how the various pages are managed,
a qml file for each page (favourites, applications, leave etc) and one single
contextmenu for each page.
Just to re-emphasize: the 'Applications View' has had recurring
difficult problems WRT keyboard-only usability: Once you ENTER the view
content, via down arrow, you cannot LEAVE and get back to the searchBar
text area by doing the reverse (i.e., Qt::Key_Up). In Widget-Kickoff for
9.3, I have fixed this by checking the rowIndex when the Key_Up is
received : if it is already zero, then instead of leaving the parent
behavior (sit there and do nothing), I send a signal to the parent
'launcher', indicating that focus should be changed to the searchBar.
I REALLY have no idea how the QML and C++ parts "connect" in
Kickoff-QML. There are signals, but repainting the QML-based UI ???
A while ago, when I said "Just use Qt::Key_Tab, it's the standard for
switching keyboard focus between widgets", many bricks were thrown in my
general direction. If we want feature parity, we need to handle key
Up/Down as well. (I do see that Gregor already added the "Switch to
'Favorites' if Key_Left is pressed while already in the left-most column.)
- - - - -
On a different topic, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=308824 shows
a really ugly desktop (IMO) with kickoff-qml too "transparent" over a
background image. IIRC, Widget-Kickoff was completey opaque on white
background: it looked much better.
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