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Subject:    Re: Review Request 6928: KMix Declarative Applet - First attempt
From:       "Diego Casella" <polentino911 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2013-07-27 14:23:56
Message-ID: 20130727142356.26426.4355 () vidsolbach ! de
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> On July 26, 2013, 10:30 p.m., Christian Esken wrote:
> > I have not followed this request, but it looks like I have not \
> > receieved any followups on my last comment. I would like to know what \
> > to do with this review request. Diego, Igor? Diego, are you still \
> > following up on this. Care to contact Igor?

Hi Christian, after hearing that someone else was working on it, I left the \
development of that plasmoid; I didnt' want to step over Igor's work. \
Anyway, by looking at the current kmix status, it's still missing the \
conversion to a full kded service: otherwise there will be two entries in \
the tray: the "old" kmix, and its plasmoid counterpart. We also need to \
extend its dbus interface and add a method to pop-up the full kmix gui: in \
that way, the plasmoid can show the user interface, allowing the end-user \
to configure kmix properly. As soon as those changes will be peformed (if \
you agree with it of course, and if you want to implement the new kmix as a \
qml plasmoid), I'd be happy to continue what I did so far :)


- Diego


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On March 28, 2012, 6:49 p.m., Diego Casella wrote:
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> (Updated March 28, 2012, 6:49 p.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for Plasma, Aaron Seigo, Christian Esken, and Marco \
> Martin. 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> First attempt of making a declarative kmix applet for plasma.
> What the apple does right now:
> * modifies the volume level and the mute/unmute status of the master \
>                 channel;
> * reacts to changes of the volume level/status (i.e. made with multimedia \
>                 keys);
> * disables the slider if the channel gets muted, and enables it back as \
>                 soon as the channel gets unmuted;
> * collapses gracefully in a popup icon when placed inside the panel.
> 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
> trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/kmix/plasma/CMakeLists.txt 1287513 
> trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/kmix/plasma/kmix-applet/contents/code/VerticalControl.qml \
> PRE-CREATION  trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/kmix/plasma/kmix-applet/contents/code/kmixapplet.qml \
> PRE-CREATION  trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/kmix/plasma/kmix-applet/metadata.desktop \
> PRE-CREATION  
> Diff: http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/6928/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Tested against r1287510. For basic audio management it works great imho.
> 
> However, there is a lot of room for improvements, but this is gonna need \
>                 some extra work outside the kmix applet scope:
> * first of all, the applet need kmix executable to run in order to \
> perform the dbus calls. You can of course disable KMix tray icon feature \
> but, at every login, KMix mainwindow will be shown and the user must \
>                 closeby hand. This is a kind of ugly behavior that should \
>                 be avoided;
> * it will be great to great to add an action to allow the user to select \
> the master channel (by reusing KMix "Select Master Channel" widget), but \
>                 this will require tweaking KMix dbus interface;
> * as you noticed in the screenshots, the applet in the panel and in the \
> desktop have different size even if it __is__ actually the same: \
> something is going wrong when plasma shows the PopupApplet. This behavior \
> was even worse when I started implementing a "flip" action to change the \
> layout from horizontal to vertical and vice-versa, and for this reason I \
> gave up and simply stick with the vertical layout. 
> Could this applet be shipped in the current status, or should we wait for \
> all the aforementioned improvements? Comments/ideas/suggestions?
> 
> Cheers :)
> 
> 
> Screenshots
> -----------
> 
> Applet look in panel and desktop
> http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/6928/s/627/
> Applet look in panel and desktop - audio muted
> http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/6928/s/628/
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Diego Casella
> 
> 


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<blockquote style="margin-left: 1em; border-left: 2px solid #d0d0d0; \
padding-left: 10px;">  <p style="margin-top: 0;">On July 26th, 2013, 10:30 \
p.m. UTC, <b>Christian Esken</b> wrote:</p>  <blockquote \
style="margin-left: 1em; border-left: 2px solid #d0d0d0; padding-left: \
10px;">  <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; \
white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">I \
have not followed this request, but it looks like I have not receieved any \
followups on my last comment. I would like to know what to do with this \
review request. Diego, Igor? Diego, are you still following up on this. \
Care to contact Igor?</pre>  </blockquote>







</blockquote>

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: \
-pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Hi Christian, \
after hearing that someone else was working on it, I left the development \
of that plasmoid; I didnt&#39; want to step over Igor&#39;s work. Anyway, \
by looking at the current kmix status, it&#39;s still missing the \
conversion to a full kded service: otherwise there will be two entries in \
the tray: the &quot;old&quot; kmix, and its plasmoid counterpart. We also \
need to extend its dbus interface and add a method to pop-up the full kmix \
gui: in that way, the plasmoid can show the user interface, allowing the \
end-user to configure kmix properly. As soon as those changes will be \
peformed (if you agree with it of course, and if you want to implement the \
new kmix as a qml plasmoid), I&#39;d be happy to continue what I did so far \
:)</pre> <br />










<p>- Diego</p>


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<div>Review request for Plasma, Aaron Seigo, Christian Esken, and Marco \
Martin.</div> <div>By Diego Casella.</div>


<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated March 28, 2012, 6:49 p.m.</i></p>






<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description \
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-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">First attempt of making a declarative kmix applet for plasma. \
                What the apple does right now:
* modifies the volume level and the mute/unmute status of the master \
                channel;
* reacts to changes of the volume level/status (i.e. made with multimedia \
                keys);
* disables the slider if the channel gets muted, and enables it back as \
                soon as the channel gets unmuted;
* collapses gracefully in a popup icon when placed inside the panel.</pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing \
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cellpadding="10" style="border: 1px solid #b8b5a0">  <tr>
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-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">Tested against r1287510. For basic audio management it works \
great imho.

However, there is a lot of room for improvements, but this is gonna need \
                some extra work outside the kmix applet scope:
* first of all, the applet need kmix executable to run in order to perform \
the dbus calls. You can of course disable KMix tray icon feature but, at \
every login, KMix mainwindow will be shown and the user must closeby hand. \
                This is a kind of ugly behavior that should be avoided;
* it will be great to great to add an action to allow the user to select \
the master channel (by reusing KMix &quot;Select Master Channel&quot; \
                widget), but this will require tweaking KMix dbus \
                interface;
* as you noticed in the screenshots, the applet in the panel and in the \
desktop have different size even if it __is__ actually the same: something \
is going wrong when plasma shows the PopupApplet. This behavior was even \
worse when I started implementing a &quot;flip&quot; action to change the \
layout from horizontal to vertical and vice-versa, and for this reason I \
gave up and simply stick with the vertical layout.

Could this applet be shipped in the current status, or should we wait for \
all the aforementioned improvements? Comments/ideas/suggestions?

Cheers :)</pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> \
</h1> <ul style="margin-left: 3em; padding-left: 0;">

 <li>trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/kmix/plasma/CMakeLists.txt <span style="color: \
grey">(1287513)</span></li>

 <li>trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/kmix/plasma/kmix-applet/contents/code/VerticalControl.qml \
<span style="color: grey">(PRE-CREATION)</span></li>

 <li>trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/kmix/plasma/kmix-applet/contents/code/kmixapplet.qml \
<span style="color: grey">(PRE-CREATION)</span></li>

 <li>trunk/KDE/kdemultimedia/kmix/plasma/kmix-applet/metadata.desktop <span \
style="color: grey">(PRE-CREATION)</span></li>

</ul>

<p><a href="http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/6928/diff/" \
style="margin-left: 3em;">View Diff</a></p>






<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Screenshots \
</h1>

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 <a href="http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/6928/s/627/"><img \
src="http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/images/2012/03/28/kmixapplet_400x100.png" \
style="border: 1px black solid;" alt="Applet look in panel and desktop" \
/></a>

 <a href="http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/r/6928/s/628/"><img \
src="http://svn.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/images/2012/03/28/kmixapplet_muted_400x100.png" \
style="border: 1px black solid;" alt="Applet look in panel and desktop - \
audio muted" /></a>

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