13 Apr
2013
13 Apr
'13
5:15 p.m.
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
13 Apr
13 Apr
6:12 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Kick-off Launcher
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?
2) 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
7:30 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Kick-off Launcher
Le 13/04/2013 20:12, Timothy Pearson a écrit :
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 ?
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?
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