29 Nov
2011
29 Nov
'11
11:42 p.m.
The little things tend to make a difference in our lives. Long ago in this galaxy, a KDE
developer decided that being able to specify the number of files in Kate's Most
Recently Used (MRU) file list, and to sort the files in the Documents file pane, was
"useless crap."
To me those features never were "useless crap." I have missed those features for
a long time.
I found the patches where those features were removed.
I am not a C++ coder, not even close. Yet I was able to reverse the patches and add a
little "TQT" love.
By golly, the widgets actually appear in Kate! Once again I can set the size of the MRU
list to something greater than 10 and sort the file list.
Current Kate 3.5.13 picture:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/kate-before.png
Patched Kate picture:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/kate-after.png
The number widget works great. I think some of you will love that restored feature.
Took me a while to realize the sorting option affects the files in the Documents list pane
and not in the MRU list. :)
I uploaded the patch to bug report 244.
Woo-hoo! :)
Darrell
29 Nov
29 Nov
11:43 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bug Report 244 is patched
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 18:42, Darrell Anderson <humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
The little things tend to make a difference in our
lives. Long ago in this galaxy, a KDE developer decided that being able to specify the
number of files in Kate's Most Recently Used (MRU) file list, and to sort the files in
the Documents file pane, was "useless crap."
To me those features never were "useless crap." I have missed those features
for a long time.
I found the patches where those features were removed.
I am not a C++ coder, not even close. Yet I was able to reverse the patches and add a
little "TQT" love.
By golly, the widgets actually appear in Kate! Once again I can set the size of the MRU
list to something greater than 10 and sort the file list.
Current Kate 3.5.13 picture:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/kate-before.png
Patched Kate picture:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/kate-after.png
The number widget works great. I think some of you will love that restored feature.
Took me a while to realize the sorting option affects the files in the Documents list
pane and not in the MRU list. :)
I uploaded the patch to bug report 244.
Woo-hoo! :)
Darrell
:D
+x as x goes to infinity (disclaimer: I am doing physics hw)
--
later daze. :: Robert Xu :: rxu.lincomlinux.org :: protocol.by/rxu
30 Nov
30 Nov
12:02 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bug Report 244 is patched
Le Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:43:46 -0500,
Robert Xu <robxu9(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
+x as x goes to infinity (disclaimer: I am doing
physics hw)
Should I be you, I would have explicitly mentioned that x goes to
positive infinity : it could have been negative infinity, or even
unsigned infinity (for example with the Alexandroff compactification of
R) ;)
12:10 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bug Report 244 is patched
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 19:02, /dev/ammo42 <mickeytintincolle(a)yahoo.fr> wrote:
Le Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:43:46 -0500,
Robert Xu <robxu9(a)gmail.com> a écrit :
+x as x goes to infinity (disclaimer: I am doing
physics hw)
Should I be you, I would have explicitly mentioned that x goes to
positive infinity : it could have been negative infinity, or even
unsigned infinity (for example with the Alexandroff compactification of
R) ;)
_> I'm assuming positive infinity XD
--
later daze. :: Robert Xu :: rxu.lincomlinux.org :: protocol.by/rxu
1:32 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bug Report 244 is patched
The little things tend to make a difference in our
lives. Long ago in this
galaxy, a KDE developer decided that being able to specify the number of
files in Kate's Most Recently Used (MRU) file list, and to sort the files
in the Documents file pane, was "useless crap."
To me those features never were "useless crap." I have missed those
features for a long time.
I found the patches where those features were removed.
I am not a C++ coder, not even close. Yet I was able to reverse the
patches and add a little "TQT" love.
By golly, the widgets actually appear in Kate! Once again I can set the
size of the MRU list to something greater than 10 and sort the file list.
Current Kate 3.5.13 picture:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/kate-before.png
Patched Kate picture:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/kate-after.png
The number widget works great. I think some of you will love that restored
feature.
Took me a while to realize the sorting option affects the files in the
Documents list pane and not in the MRU list. :)
I uploaded the patch to bug report 244.
Woo-hoo! :)
Darrell
Nice work! This attention to detail is one of the advantages of the TDE
project, and is made possible by those who invest their time in
adding/fixing "useless features" (which in reality are quite useful in
less common situations). ;-)
Tim
1:59 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bug Report 244 is patched
Timothy Pearson wrote:
good to see this fixed :-) when developers decide removing features is a good idea they
have truly started in the wrong direction ....
PK
The little
things tend to make a difference in our lives. Long ago in this
galaxy, a KDE developer decided that being able to specify the number of
files in Kate's Most Recently Used (MRU) file list, and to sort the files
in the Documents file pane, was "useless crap."
To me those features never were "useless crap." I have missed those
features for a long time.
I found the patches where those features were removed.
I am not a C++ coder, not even close. Yet I was able to reverse the
patches and add a little "TQT" love.
By golly, the widgets actually appear in Kate! Once again I can set the
size of the MRU list to something greater than 10 and sort the file list.
Current Kate 3.5.13 picture:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/kate-before.png
Patched Kate picture:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/kate-after.png
The number widget works great. I think some of you will love that restored
feature.
Took me a while to realize the sorting option affects the files in the
Documents list pane and not in the MRU list. :)
I uploaded the patch to bug report 244.
Woo-hoo! :)
Darrell
Nice work! This attention to detail is one of the advantages of the TDE
project, and is made possible by those who invest their time in
adding/fixing "useless features" (which in reality are quite useful in
less common situations). ;-)
Tim
3:13 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-devel] Bug Report 244 is patched
Nice work!
This attention to detail is one of
the advantages of the TDE
project, and is made possible by those who invest
their time in
adding/fixing "useless features" (which
in reality are
quite useful in
> less common situations). ;-) good to see this fixed :-) when developers decide
removing
features is a good idea they have truly started in the wrong
direction ....
Thanks! :D
When I found the original svn merge and noticed the patches were labeled "useless
crap" I lost my respect for that developer right then and there. Those features
harmed nobody and some of us found them helpful. Arrogance.
Another example is TDE bug report 245
(http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=245). Most web browsers support these
context menu options and even after many complained the menu never was restored. There are
other KDE bug reports against that same change that got marked as duplicate reports. I
found the code snippets for when the context menu was changed and made a note in our
bugzilla. Perhaps we can restore that too.
Little things....
Oh well. Fixed! Let's be happy. Woo hoo! :)
Now if only I can find time to actually learn some C++ fundamentals....
Darrell
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