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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Review Request: InputTypeWatcher, to "mobilize" the plasma widgets
From:       "Marco Martin" <notmart () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-05-07 20:17:27
Message-ID: 20100507201727.8507.8387 () localhost
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> On 2010-05-07 20:13:04, Aaron Seigo wrote:
> > the idea is sound, but the implementation leaves me queasy :) this really ought \
> > to be implemented somewhere else (e.g. Qt). keeping a list of every widget we \
> > have around is not great ... also, i wonder if this really needs to be runtime \
> > configurable, or can we assume a static hardware profile? or is one of the design \
> > requirements to support switching between a tablet mode and a laptop mode? (that \
> > is actually probably quite valid...)  
> > but as this is not a trivial thing and given where we are in the release cycle, \
> > can we put this off until 4.6?

yes, better postpone it.
by the way, yes, i think a runtime switching capability would be the little thing we \
have more


- Marco


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On 2010-05-07 17:58:06, Marco Martin wrote:
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> (Updated 2010-05-07 17:58:06)
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> 
> Review request for Plasma.
> 
> 
> Summary
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> 
> this little class (that probably have to stay private) is a little central place \
> for widget to see how they should behave. with touchscreen  some things have to \
> change for everybody, like refusing hover events, always. other widgets will have \
> to change even more, for instance ScrollWidget will have to replace the scrollbars \
> with some simple scroll indicators that appears over the contents and only while \
> animating. it's now done with a simpe config file, it would be cool doing it \
> completely dinamically, and actually by querying the hardware. but i don't thiunk \
> it exists any sane system to hgave reliably thi kind of informations (like if a \
> poiter devie is a mouse otr a touchscreen) so for now it would have to be manually \
> configured. It kinda sucks, but i think it's a quite important feature anyways, \
> quite crucial for touchscreens, and would be still easy to change if is going to \
> stay private for now 
> 
> Diffs
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> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/plasma/CMakeLists.txt 1123761 
> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/plasma/private/inputtypewatcher.cpp PRE-CREATION 
> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/plasma/private/inputtypewatcher_p.h PRE-CREATION 
> /trunk/KDE/kdelibs/plasma/widgets/pushbutton.cpp 1123761 
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> Diff: http://reviewboard.kde.org/r/3914/diff
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marco
> 
> 

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