Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Sunday 02 October 2011 18:36:14 Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the ${GENERIC_LIB_VERSION} to set the so versioning of their libraries. That variable is hard-coded in kdelibs/cmake/modules/KDE4Defaults.cmake If we rely on kdelibs-4.7 for the KDE SC 4.8 release,

Re: Extending KZip class

2011-10-03 Thread David Faure
On Sunday 02 October 2011 21:06:34 Kevin Krammer wrote: On Sunday, 2011-10-02, Θεόφιλος Ιντζόγλου wrote: I'm trying to improve the karchive plugin of ark to have better support for zip files but unfortunately there are some things missing from the KZip class like support for encrypted

Re: Review Request: W7 Tab thumbnails in dolphin.

2011-10-03 Thread Peter Penz
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/#review7010 --- I always recommend to get in contact with the maintainers of an

Re: The future of Power Management - together with Activities

2011-10-03 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, On Monday 03 October 2011, Dario Freddi wrote: ... Instead, if you are knowledgeable about the issue and have valuable feedback, it´s time to discuss. Now, can we please reset the discussion to a decent mood and come up with VALID concerns about this new feature? Thanks. Maybe one thing

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Monday 03 October 2011, Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the ${GENERIC_LIB_VERSION} to set the so versioning of their libraries. That variable is hard-coded in kdelibs/cmake/modules/KDE4Defaults.cmake If we rely on kdelibs-4.7 for the KDE SC 4.8 release, then all

Re: Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Albert Astals Cid
A Dilluns, 3 d'octubre de 2011, Alexander Neundorf vàreu escriure: On Monday 03 October 2011, Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the ${GENERIC_LIB_VERSION} to set the so versioning of their libraries. That variable is hard-coded in

Re: Review Request: W7 Tab thumbnails in dolphin.

2011-10-03 Thread Patrick Spendrin
On Oct. 3, 2011, 7:28 a.m., Peter Penz wrote: I always recommend to get in contact with the maintainers of an application _before_ investigating so much work into a new feature. In this case I'm very sorry to say that this cannot get pushed because of the following reasons: - I'm

Re: Review Request: W7 Tab thumbnails in dolphin.

2011-10-03 Thread Patrick Spendrin
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/#review7019 --- We still should test this patch on all the other possible

Re: The future of Power Management - together with Activities

2011-10-03 Thread Dario Freddi
On Monday 03 October 2011 06:38:29 Scott Kitterman wrote: On Sunday, October 02, 2011 06:44:41 PM Dario Freddi wrote: I would like to draw your attention to the address of this list. It has a nice -devel prefix. I don´t take part in discussions where I am not knowledgeable about the topic.

Re: The future of Power Management - together with Activities

2011-10-03 Thread Alex Merry
On 01/10/11 15:27, Dario Freddi wrote: Me and Bjorn have been discussing extensively about how to improve the current situation with Power Management in KDE. We focused on simplicity, still without losing power-user features. And we have a plan I'd like to share and get some feedback on. I

Re: The future of Power Management - together with Activities

2011-10-03 Thread Dario Freddi
On Monday 03 October 2011 10:44:35 Alexander Neundorf wrote: Maybe one thing which could make things more clear to others would be to explain which things, potentially related to power management, are managed by what (or not) and how much they actually affect power consumption, like:

Re: The future of Power Management - together with Activities

2011-10-03 Thread Dario Freddi
On Monday 03 October 2011 13:16:28 Alex Merry wrote: [snip] So, basically, great work, Dario. Keep it up. Thanks :) As a final mean of apologizing for my harsh words yesterday, I have a nice surprise. The whole topic of this mail is now real and 100% working. If you want to try it, please

Re: Review Request: W7 Tab thumbnails in dolphin.

2011-10-03 Thread todd rme
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Patrick Spendrin ps...@gmx.de wrote: This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/ We still should test this patch on all the other possible platforms (xp, vista with mingw compilers) so that we have

Re: Review Request: fix sycoca off by one

2011-10-03 Thread David Faure
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102748/#review7025 --- Looks ok, but make sure to increase the sycoca version number

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Allen Winter
On Monday 03 October 2011 5:04:45 AM Albert Astals Cid wrote: A Dilluns, 3 d'octubre de 2011, Alexander Neundorf vàreu escriure: On Monday 03 October 2011, Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the ${GENERIC_LIB_VERSION} to set the so versioning of their libraries.

Re: Review Request: Put an end to plugin statusbar icon leaks

2011-10-03 Thread David Faure
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101653/#review7034 --- Good analysis, thanks for that. I only disagree with the

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2011-10-03, Allen Winter win...@kde.org wrote: On Monday 03 October 2011 5:04:45 AM Albert Astals Cid wrote: A Dilluns, 3 d'octubre de 2011, Alexander Neundorf vàreu escriure: On Monday 03 October 2011, Allen Winter wrote: Howdy, A lot of CMakeLists.txt use the

Re: Review Request: modification to get all possible informations at debuging

2011-10-03 Thread Alexander Neundorf
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102764/#review7044 --- I can remember there were multiple discussions about how these

Teaching the next Adas – join KDE for Ada Lovelace Day tutorials

2011-10-03 Thread Lydia Pintscher
Heya folks :) I'm really excited to announce that we'll have tutorials for Ada Lovelace Day (7. Oct) at KDE. Learn how to become a bugmaster or write your own little application. Find out more at

Re: Review Request: modification to get all possible informations at debuging

2011-10-03 Thread David Faure
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102764/#review7048 --- Please don't commit this. Use debugfull if you want no

Re: Review Request: modification to get all possible informations at debuging

2011-10-03 Thread Guy Maurel
On Oct. 3, 2011, 5:24 p.m., David Faure wrote: Please don't commit this. Use debugfull if you want no optimizations (e.g. for step-by-step in gdb). thanks, I'll try this. - Guy --- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To

Just kwin, or do the whole thing?

2011-10-03 Thread Rick Stockton
A kde-core post as well, because I'm offering to resurrect the Dead. ;) Looking ahead, it's going to be awkward mixing Qt names for Buttons = XButton2, while using X11 names for higher numbers. I'm new to C++, but pretty solid on everything except polymorphism and certain asepcts of

Re: Review Request: fix sycoca off by one

2011-10-03 Thread Commit Hook
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102748/#review7053 --- This review has been submitted with commit

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Martin Gräßlin wrote: If it's only for bug fixes, wouldn't it be easier to branch 4.8 from 4.7? That way only two instead of three branches have to be maintained. If we open master for 4.8 development again (even only for bugfixes), I fear we will have much discussions again about adding

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:37:51 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at: Martin Gräßlin wrote: I don't want to have lengthy threads on kcd each other week were developers state how evil KDE is by not letting them include their awesome feature NOW. making fun of volunteers trying to

Re: Review Request: W7 Tab thumbnails in dolphin.

2011-10-03 Thread Peter Penz
On Oct. 3, 2011, 7:28 a.m., Peter Penz wrote: I always recommend to get in contact with the maintainers of an application _before_ investigating so much work into a new feature. In this case I'm very sorry to say that this cannot get pushed because of the following reasons: - I'm

Re: Review Request: W7 Tab thumbnails in dolphin.

2011-10-03 Thread David Faure
--- This is an automatically generated e-mail. To reply, visit: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/#review7032 --- Couldn't this be done higher in the stack, e.g. in KTabWidget

Re: Review Request: W7 Tab thumbnails in dolphin.

2011-10-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
On Oct. 3, 2011, 1:15 p.m., David Faure wrote: Couldn't this be done higher in the stack, e.g. in KTabWidget or in Qt? Indeed, I think there should be some interface for this stuff in kdelibs, so that 1. applications don't have to add such platform-specific code and 2. the feature can also

Re: The case for a kdelibs 4.8

2011-10-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2011, 08:27:02 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: One of the main reasons for the rebranding was to realize that KDE is not one product, but a community that produces multiple products among them a desktop environment (Plasma). What you just try to tell us is that the complete

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Thomas Lübking wrote: So what's the big difference? The big difference is that kdelibs 4 and KDE Frameworks 5 are different (sets of) libraries with incompatible APIs which will be shipped alongside each other in distributions for years. So this is not a normal freeze, it's a permanent freeze

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am Mon, 03 Oct 2011 22:41:11 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at: The big difference is that kdelibs 4 and KDE Frameworks 5 are different (sets of) libraries with incompatible APIs which will be shipped alongside each other in distributions for years. So this is not a normal

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Kevin Kofler
Thomas Lübking wrote: In this case porting would be recompiling and relinking, so if one desperately wants a new feature in an application (since libraries don't have features for their own sake) one would just port to the KDE5 frameworks, yesno? Not if the application is using deprecated

Re: kdelibs 4.8? What to do about GENERIC_LIB_VERSION?

2011-10-03 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:11:18 +0200 schrieb Kevin Kofler kevin.kof...@chello.at: Not if the application is using deprecated APIs, including but not limited to Qt3Support and kde3support. I always though that'd be the reason for the deprecated tag. Hey developer: get rid of this call, asap! (And