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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.)
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> 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
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>
> 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>
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<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' 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 :)</pre> <br />
<p>- Diego</p>
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<p>On March 28th, 2012, 6:49 p.m. UTC, Diego Casella wrote:</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 </h1>
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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 </h1>
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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 "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 :)</pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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<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>
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<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>
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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" \
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