Re: QML splash screen

2011-09-13 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
ns, oki I don't care :p > but, if by multiscreen do you mean xradnr // xinerama then I do care :p > > I don't know what PA1 means, but please if by multiscreen do you mean > xrandr/xinerama please fix it before merge anything. I'm assuming "PA1" == "Plasma

Re: NowPlaying DataEngine

2011-07-25 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
Okay. I'll keeped it flagged "copious free time", then. :P  - Jeffery MacEachern On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:00, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday, July 23, 2011 21:53:21 Jeffery MacEachern wrote: >> Was this ever taken care of? > > i don't believe so,

Re: NowPlaying DataEngine

2011-07-23 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
Was this ever taken care of?  - Jeffery MacEachern On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 14:24, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hi ... > > looking at a bug report this evening i glanced into the source code of the > nowplaying dataengine[1], and was pretty shocked to see that all the dbus > calls ma

Re: Regarding login authentication of students by the containment...in KDE Plasma Educational Desktop

2011-07-14 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
+1 for (a). As a personal note, at my elementary school we were responsible for our own credentials from quite a young age.  - Jeffery MacEachern On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 09:37, Marc Mauri Alloza wrote: > I think option a is the best. I think make students responsible of > their login d

Re: Plasma-desktop, Awesome and multiple screens

2011-07-06 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
4.7.0 (the regression being that > panels no longer migrate from the external screen to the internal screen) Great to hear that, Aaron. :) - Jeffery MacEachern P.S. Johannes: If possible, using kquitapp instead of killall is probably a more "polite" way of taking it down. It uses

Re: Close button in task manager widget

2011-05-30 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
. So user could easily close a window directly >> > without >> > having to right-click. >> >> would make a nice addition to the tooltips. i don't think it would work in >> the >> buttons themselves, though. > > +1 to the tooltip idea, KWin already

Re: activity API in experimental?

2011-05-22 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
the places model tied to activity > which didn't need any stuff related to resources. For the record, that part didn't make the freeze. >_< Sorry about that. - Jeffery MacEachern > The resources stuff api will soon be done and pushed when we get unfrozen. > There were so

Re: activity API in experimental?

2011-04-26 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
future, but am I clear to code now? :) Cheers, - Jeffery MacEachern > -- > Cheerio, > Ivan > > -- > While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words > Dying to believe in what you heard > I was staring straight into the shining sun > __

Re: activity API in experimental?

2011-04-14 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 01:12, Ivan Cukic wrote: > >> Any news on this? > > No. It will be on Tokamak5. (in a more than a week) Great, thanks! Sorry for the bump, but I haven't been able to follow things that closely. Have fun at Tokamak. - Jeffery Ma

Re: activity API in experimental?

2011-04-13 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 03:45, Marco Martin wrote: > On Thursday 13 January 2011, Jeffery MacEachern wrote: >> Since I'm "the guy" Chani mentions below, I inquired about this >> yesterday and was told to ask Ivan about getting KActivityConsumer & >> Friends

Re: Google Summer of Code

2011-03-27 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 14:54, José Expósito wrote: >> as separate ded? (so something new, generic in kde-workspace) I think he meant "kded" - Jeffery MacEachern > I'm sorry, I don't know if I understand you well (ded?). > > I think that a separate daemon

Re: The future of virtual desktops

2011-02-25 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:43, Marco Martin wrote: > On Friday 25 February 2011, Kun Zhang wrote: >> > this sort of thing, but overall, it works well already. >> > >> >  - Jeffery MacEachern >> >> I didn't notice the "Activities" sub m

Re: The future of virtual desktops

2011-02-25 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
started again), all of the windows will open in one activity. I don't know what the plans are for this sort of thing, but overall, it works well already. - Jeffery MacEachern > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:18 AM, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > > - Ursprüngliche Mitteilung ---

Re: multiscreen fix

2011-02-18 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
g each other with 10 > foot chopsticks: yes, it's possible, but it's really clumsy and very silly. Possible, yes... it also sounds fun to try. :) Where can I buy 10 foot chopsticks? ...and safety glasses... - Jeffery MacEachern > i know man of you have a million other things to do, but t

Re: multiscreen fix

2011-02-17 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 09:02, Yuen Hoe Lim wrote: > I have multiscreen now :) Will give this a go over the weekend if no one's > free. If you need further testing, I'll be game, providing I have my dev environment (re)set up by then. This affects me a lot. Thanks! - Je

Re: gitness of plasma-mobile

2011-02-06 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
:) > > Ok, > so, ladies and gentlemen, the official plasma mobile repo ;) > > https://projects.kde.org/projects/playground/base/plasma-mobile > > > Cheers, > Marco Martin Woot! Nice work. :) A quick note: the Overview page says "handled" rather than "handhe

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-05 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 01:09, Marco Martin wrote: > On Saturday 05 February 2011, Jeffery MacEachern wrote: >> I agree on the call for mocks; I wonder, though, if it might be good >> to make some of the ideas discussed here more concrete (or at least, >> more well-defined), a

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-05 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
content=91495 I'm just downloading it to try out, as I haven't used it in probably about a year. - Jeffery MacEachern ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-05 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
I agree on the call for mocks; I wonder, though, if it might be good to make some of the ideas discussed here more concrete (or at least, more well-defined), and post them as "seed" ideas when putting out the call.  - Jeffery MacEachern On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 11:50, todd rme wrote

Re: Mouse Buttons- should KDE provide a GUI to "fix" faulty button numbers?

2011-02-05 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 16:14, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday, February 4, 2011, Rick Stockton wrote: >> Background for my question: >> >> Different mice, even different mice from the SAME manufacturer, >> sometimes emit different X11 Button numbers for the same button. For >> example, the tilt

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-04 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
27;s not copy the dock > but make tasks bar better. +1 Aside from any notions of "copying" or otherwise, I don't believe that any design is Perfect, and so even if a dock was good and desirable, I'd prefer to see if KDE can innovate and produce something better still.

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
> > It (as usual) all depends fro the hardware support i fear :/ I think you're right, but I know I've previously used at least one (non-Mac) laptop that supported multi-finger tap and swipe, although nothing fancier like pinch or such. - Jeffery MacEachern ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
;s an intriguing idea. If we were to do that, what about other application/widget pairs? The Plasmoid handle (is that the name for it?) already has support for that sort of thing functionally, but visuals and further conceptual binding could be *really* slick. > Cheers, > Marco Martin - Jeffe

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
it > should just be assigned. still thinking about it though :) The feasibility of this would depend on how the Activity assignment is (re?)done, IMO. For example, in the KWin Activities menu, you have to perform each (de)assignment individually, which - with this proposal - could result in

Re: the next step on the desktop

2011-02-01 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
x27;s work on this together!) >> >> > * an "activities" widget (i'll hapilly write it) that sits next to the >> > app launcher and when clicked brings up the actvities manager >> >> there is one on kde-look. however i remeber that you had a valid >> argument against it: it would slowly become basically a replica of the >> activity manager with most-but-not-all of its features. > > indeed; i was simply envisioning a button that would launch the full activity > manager UI. right now it is very hidden. +1 - Jeffery MacEachern ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: tasks widget testing before i backport

2011-01-15 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
Do you happen to have patches for these against the 4.6 branch handy? If not, I'm afraid I probably won't have time to test them. :/  - Jeffery MacEachern On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 17:39, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday, January 7, 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> hi ... &g

Re: activity API in experimental?

2011-01-12 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
an be done? Cheers,  - Jeffery MacEachern On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 03:08, Chani wrote: > so... I'm starting to get people asking how they can use the activity API in > applications - and in one case, in kdelibs. > > on the one hand, I really want to help them get started on tha

Re: tasks widget testing before i backport

2011-01-12 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
Alright, I think I can do that. However, due to waiting on a new hard drive to come in, I haven't bothered to keep up for a while; I'm currently sitting at some mish-mash of RC1 & RC2. Will that present any problems?  - Jeffery MacEachern On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 18:57, Aaron J

Re: tasks widget testing before i backport

2011-01-12 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
Hi Aaron, Given the lack of reply here, does this still need testing? I might not be able to do it right away, but I'd be glad to help. Cheers,  - Jeffery MacEachern On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:31, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > hi ... > > i committed two sets of changes yesterday to

Re: dah-dah-da-daaaaah! synchrotron!

2011-01-06 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 02:23, LucaTringali wrote: >>the subject line of this email should be sung to the tune of your favourite >>superhero t.v. show, such as Italian Spiderman. > > love it! > >>* how to automatically check for addons from synchrotron on first-run >>* how to check for updates so w

Re: Taskbar Launchers

2010-12-30 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
Thanks, done.  - Jeffery MacEachern On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 00:37, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, December 29, 2010, Jeffery MacEachern wrote: >> launcher support to the taskbar.  My understanding is that this >> feature is shipping in 4.6 (at least, I currently hav

Taskbar Launchers

2010-12-29 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
less any resolution to or comments on the report itself. I know it was a widely-requested feature by users of Smooth Tasks[1] in particular. Am I missing something? Is there a reason relatively few people seem to know about this? Cheers,  - Jeffery MacEachern [0]: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bu

Re: Embossed effect on Plasma digital clock

2010-12-22 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
Thanks, Sebas! I'll check it out when I have time to rebuild, and let you know if there any remaining irregularities.  - Jeffery MacEachern On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:24, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Monday, December 20, 2010 21:09:07 Sebastian Kügler wrote: >> As to the origin

Re: Automatic activity switching and other stuff -- thoughts for 4.7

2010-12-19 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
n without hindering those in unanticipated or 'non-traditional' scenarios?". Just my $0.02  - Jeffery MacEachern On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 00:49, Ryan Rix wrote: > Hey all, > > Long mail follows, sorry. Really only of interest to Chani, Aaron, Ivan and > other activity fol

Re: Embossed effect on Plasma digital clock

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
e? - Jeffery MacEachern > On 12/10/10, Jeffery MacEachern wrote: >> I just noticed that on my recent trunk build of 4.6 (within the last >> week or so), the embossed effect on the digital clock widget doesn't >> seem to be applied to the date.  Is this intentional?  It do

Embossed effect on Plasma digital clock

2010-12-09 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
ooks quite out of place (figuratively, /and/ literally, due to alignment issues). Cheers,  - Jeffery MacEachern [0]: http://imagebin.ca/view/4q5pCz8w.html' ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: Remote Widgets on embedded devices

2010-12-04 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 14:46, Marco Martin wrote: > On Saturday 04 December 2010, Jeffery MacEachern wrote: >> I recall there being some talk quite a while ago about work being done >> on remoting plasmoids wirelessly from embedded devices (say, for >> kiosks or applian

Remote Widgets on embedded devices

2010-12-04 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
I recall there being some talk quite a while ago about work being done on remoting plasmoids wirelessly from embedded devices (say, for kiosks or appliances). Aaron said the project was abandoned, but was there ever any code or information published related to that?  - Jeffery MacEachern

Re: libplasma 2

2010-10-31 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
belongs on community.kde.org, not techbase. i've deleted this page, >> and moved its contents to community.k.o here: >> >>       http://community.kde.org/Plasma/libplasma2 > > I'm confused - how do we decide whether something belongs on community or > techbase

Re: soft freeze is coming!

2010-10-26 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
What time[zone] does the freeze come into effect?  - Jeffery MacEachern On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 04:05, Chani wrote: > it's that time again - october 28th (this thursday) is soft freeze. > make sure you get your work on the feature plan before then! > > http://techbase.kde.o

Re: Plasma on N810

2010-10-04 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
...Actually, though, what I'm after is more like the work that's been done on the Kontact summary page - I don't need a full-out workspace-style shell. I'll take a look at Techbase when I get a chance, and see how things look in that regard.  - Jeffery MacEachern On Mon,

Re: Plasma on N810

2010-10-04 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 04:15, Artur de Souza wrote: > Hi, > > Quoting Jeffery MacEachern : >> >> Has anyone tried running a recent version of Plasma on the N810 (under >> Maemo or MeeGo)?  Is it even feasible?  I've been wanting to use my >> N810 (affixed vi

Re: Plasma on N810

2010-10-04 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 06:04, John Layt wrote: > On Monday 04 October 2010 12:33:16 Marco Martin wrote: >> On Monday 04 October 2010, Jeffery MacEachern wrote: >> > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 04:15, Artur de Souza wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > >

Plasma on N810

2010-10-04 Thread Jeffery MacEachern
could get the requisite code running on it.  - Jeffery MacEachern ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel