Hidey Ho Neighbors,
Haven't been around much lately, but school is letting out soon and it seems progress is picking up for R14.
Kick-Off has been causing problems on and off for my desktops since inception. I did quite a bit of work last year to simplify it, but now the hard-drive parsing (the most ugly piece of code i've seen) has caused problems again. This is due to a questionable amount of parsing doesn't seem to work correctly everwhere.
I digress.
A good solution would be to 1) remove kickoff since it's unlikely that it is used, and doesn't keep in the style of trinity and port the cool features of kickoff into the original kicker panel, if there are any. 2) integrate tde's hw library with kickoff so isn't relying on a bad hack
I'd be willing to do both, what do you guys think?
Calvin
Hidey Ho Neighbors,
Haven't been around much lately, but school is letting out soon and it seems progress is picking up for R14.
Kick-Off has been causing problems on and off for my desktops since inception. I did quite a bit of work last year to simplify it, but now the hard-drive parsing (the most ugly piece of code i've seen) has caused problems again. This is due to a questionable amount of parsing doesn't seem to work correctly everwhere.
I digress.
A good solution would be to 1) remove kickoff since it's unlikely that it is used, and doesn't keep in the style of trinity and port the cool features of kickoff into the original kicker panel, if there are any.
I would need a list of any improvements in Kickoff that are not in Kicker. Copious amounts of whitespace around each widget is not considered an improvement. ;-) Perhaps you could gather information from list members on why they use Kickoff vs. Kicker?
- integrate tde's hw library with kickoff so isn't relying on a bad
hack
There is quite a bit of code using the TDE HW library, so there should be plenty of examples for you to study. In particular, look at the hardware devices KControl module and the tdebase kio media manager.
I'd be willing to do both, what do you guys think?
Not sure how you could do both when in 1.) you remove a feature and in 2.) you enhance the same feature. ;-) Do you mean that for 1.) you would port over the useful features to Kicker?
Thanks!
Tim
Le 13/04/2013 20:12, Timothy Pearson a écrit :
Hidey Ho Neighbors,
Haven't been around much lately, but school is letting out soon and it seems progress is picking up for R14.
Kick-Off has been causing problems on and off for my desktops since inception. I did quite a bit of work last year to simplify it, but now the hard-drive parsing (the most ugly piece of code i've seen) has caused problems again. This is due to a questionable amount of parsing doesn't seem to work correctly everwhere.
I digress.
A good solution would be to 1) remove kickoff since it's unlikely that it is used, and doesn't keep in the style of trinity and port the cool features of kickoff into the original kicker panel, if there are any.
I would need a list of any improvements in Kickoff that are not in Kicker. Copious amounts of whitespace around each widget is not considered an improvement. ;-) Perhaps you could gather information from list members on why they use Kickoff vs. Kicker?
Hello, I'm always using Kickoff menu instead of Kicker, so I would'nt like it to be removed. I currently have no problem with it.
Here are some reasons: - I prefer having separate tabs for favorites/all applications/Computer/History , instead of having a single huge menu with many submenus. - I prefer the search feature of Kickoff, which displays immediatly the icon of the app I'm searching. In kicker, the search feature justs grays out the directories, but I still have to browse the tree to find the application I want. When the application list is very long, it is still not very convenient. - I like the way applications are shown in menu: a "big" icon, application name written with big letters, application summary with small letters. So there is no confusion between application name and application summary.
Maybe we should just ship Kickoff as a separate application, like kbfx ?
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Timothy Pearson