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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [kde-promo] Qt contributions from KDE article
From:       Jos Poortvliet <jospoortvliet () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-12-18 21:21:27
Message-ID: 1526098.3ne96O7kZt () linux-606j
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On Wednesday 18 December 2013 09:34:10 Carl wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 06:21:25 PM Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 December 2013 10:26:20 Carl wrote:
> > > On 2013-12-14 10:19, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > We've been working on a 'Qt contributions by KDE" article to follow
> > > > the Qt
> > > > 5.2 release. We're a bit late so we should really try and publish
> > > > this on
> > > > Monday.
> > > > 
> > > > A little review would be greatly appreciated!
> > > > 
> > > > Get it here:
> > > > https://notes.kde.org/p/Platform5DotStoryForQt52
> > > > 
> > > > Hugs,
> > > > Jos
> > > 
> > > Thanks Jos. Nice story.
> > > 
> > > First round done. Might be good for someone to look this over and make
> > > sure that it's still accurate.
> > 
> > Tnx.
> > 
> > > Please don't use double spaces. Between sentences their use is
> > > understandable as a throwback to manual typewriter days. Within
> > > sentences, they are just a nuisance.
> > 
> > I HATE double spaces, between sentences and anywhere else. It's etherpad
> > which has a tendency to insert them... Just ignore, in the final article
> > I
> > believe I used a search-and-replace to get rid of them :D
> > 
> > At least I hope I didn't forget... Did I?
> 
> I don't know where they came from...I just noticed one instance of double
> spaces and then searched for them (in etherpad, which doesn't have
> search-and- replace that I've found). Good to know that etherpad might be
> the culprit. However, the double spaces were not spread across the entire
> document; there were certain sections that had a lot, and others with
> none.

Those are sections which have been copy-pasted. Somehow it happens when you 
do that...

> BTW, For whatever reason, etherpad is almost unusable for me in Chrome.

Hmmm, mostly using FF here as Chromium eats too much ram...

> > > Questions...
> > > The second sentence of the following <li> item doesn't make sense.
> > > [The Qt shortcut system was edited by David Edmundson so that shortcuts
> > > are now fetched from the underlying platform. As a result, all Qt
> > > applications will now follow the user-configured shortcuts from within
> > > KDE.]
> > > What about Qt applications that are not related to KDE?
> > > 
> > > Carl
> 
> Martin Klapetek answered that this accurate. It still seems awkward to my
> technically-unenlightened thinking.
> 
> What that sentence says to me is this...
> If you have a Qt application running on your Blackberry, it will follow the
> user-defined shortcuts from KDE. I doubt that.

Aaah, I get it.

> I don't know what the second sentence in that item is trying to
> communicate... The Qt shortcut system is a contribution from KDE.
> There are KDE-designated libraries that all Qt applications draw from.
> 
> Is this more accurate if the second sentence is eliminated? And the first
> reads:
> The Qt shortcut system was edited by David Edmundson so that now user-
> configured shortcuts are fetched from the underlying platform.

That might be too generic - but this is something David should answer.

> Carl

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