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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KCategorizedView and polishing Systemsettings
From:       Bernhard Beschow <bbeschow () cs ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2007-12-23 14:39:11
Message-ID: 200712231539.11490.bbeschow () cs ! tu-berlin ! de
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Am Mittwoch 19 Dezember 2007 schrieb Will Stephenson:
> > My second idea for systemsettings is to replace the current ModuleView by
> > KCategorizedView in systemsettings. I think KCategorizedView has the same
> > abstract use case as ModuleView. (Namely, to categorize items) In
> > addition, it behaves better when resizing. So this should not only
> > eliminate the need to set the minimum size of systemsettings to
> > QSize(700, 500) but should also simplify its code base.
>
> Agreed, while we do need to fix the modules' sizes, the current view is
> suboptimal.  I had the same idea, it's nearly working now [3].  Have you
> made any progress?  I spent the weekend chasing my tail trying to use
> KServiceGroups to construct the menu instead of the systemsettings metadata
> system, but that isn't possible right now - as explained on the project
> page. I'll hopefully commit a ported systemsettings tonight.  I hope you'll
> review my code as this late in the release cycle big changes need as much
> scrutiny as possible.

The screenshot looks very good! Have you committed the code somewhere? I'm 
excited to try it out myself and help reviewing your code.

Best whishes,
Bernhard

>
> [1] http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3124
> [2] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/SystemSettings
> [3] http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/9049/systemsettingsinterviewvg4.png
>
> > What do you think?
>
> I hope there hasn't been too much overlap between your work and mine, and
> that we can work together to make systemsettings usable in 4.0.  I don't
> want systemsettings to be a major long term project for me so it's in my
> interest if we form a group who are able to maintain it together, and maybe
> Simon Edwards and Benjamin Meyer will come back to it.
>
> Will
> (IRC: Bille)


 
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