After doing some fixes to KRunner last week which I blogged, I later fixed a few similarly small annoyances in KRandrTray. Today I cleaned up a small issue with the notifications widget: the tooltip would show even when the popup was open, resulting in less-detailed information in the tooltip obscuring the purposefully open and more detailed job and notification information. This was right after reading Alex Fiestas's blog entry on having a very productive KDE hacking weekend in which he nailed some Plasma Desktop annoyances of his own.
While we're all working on lots of new things (like Plasma Active) or important retoolings of old things (e.g. libplasma2), I believe it's also important that we try and make some time to pound out the little dents and smooth out the slightly rough edges of what exists as well. A lot of these fixes take only a few minutes, though admittedly some can take a few hours of trudging through code, though that usually means a number of other cleanups can and likely do happen as well.
Usually, though, these fixes take much less time than trolling through the dozen or so bug reports needed to find one that's valid and addressable.
This is all a bit of a reminder to myself to do these kinds of little "makes me enjoy this software more" fixes more often, and an invitation to all other KDE hackers (and would-be KDE hackers) to also take the initiative similarly with the code you work on. Or, like Alex, on Plasma code. We welcome your help! :)
(Which reminds me, it's now Monday at nearly 17:00 and I still haven't gotten out my blog on Share Like Connect. Gah!!!!)
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7 comments:
Finally that notification widget problem solved. It was really annoying. By the way with 4.7 rc2 the taskbar sometimes doesnt show up window when i open it. If i want to open program i click on icon, at the taskbar theres notification that app is loading and when the window appears taskbar entry goes away. If i open one more window then the old one shows up fine (along with new one). This doesnt happen always but quite frequently, its really annoying. There are several bug reports already but no answer.
Other than that kde 4.7 looks like its gonna the be best release ever. Its stable, fast, smooth and beautiful. Thanks for you hard work!
I always thought the KRunner was very inconsistently reacting to my keyboard input.
I didn't even see that the mouse pointer often was over the widget, causing the focus to go to it.
Thanks, we definately need more of that stuff! :)
A small thing that disturbs me about plasma, is how some widgets scroll past the content, showing white-space and some don't. Scrolling more than the borders is nice on touchscreens but not on mouse/touchpad.
About this, do you have any plans for a plasma hig? it would help with those little things.
This also reminds me the shelf plasmoid, which does an effect in the borders, (zoom out?).
How should I report these bugs, which are wrong and which is right, A hig is needed for deciding this, and a different one for pc, mobile, and tablet.
Those are the niceties of open source software.
I am not an expert in coding C stuff (but other languages) and so I am not yet able creating something new but improving existing ones.
And so for example you see something and think "umm, THIS can be solved in a better way" or "hmm they made it better somewhere else". You go to projects.kde.org, go to the respective component and since the categories and files are named and grouped logically, it mostly isn’t hard to find the right .cpp files.
Open them, hack it, compile it, test it, submit it. :)
Cool, I've been waiting for someone with the knowledge to fix that issue for months. More devs should indeed do things like that, just, grab a hammer and un-dent some annoyances.
One that annoys me is a CUPs printer message. Which occurs when I am at home. I get a message that it cannot find a printer at work. If I click on it to dismiss, it will come back. Wish there was a a checkbox for "Do not Show again"
Ahhh great work! :-D
KRandrTray could use so much love, and I'm glad something is addressed. :-)
Honestly, it rains bugs in there. I guess I ran across 5-10 bugs about multi-monitor and flexible network setups in my first days of using my laptop for contract work. As if no one ever tried using a laptop for flexible workspots where you plug in network, monitor, etc... :-/
I've reported them in K.B.O. in the hope that someone with time can solve them!
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