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120 lines
4.6 KiB
120 lines
4.6 KiB
15 years ago
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Here are the top things that need to be or are being worked on in Kicker.
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They are rated as to expected difficulty, from one to five stars.
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They are also rated as to desirability, from one to five plusses.
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Issues Of Import
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Layout management
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autoexpending panels on the same side of the screen need to stop expanding
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at the point they run into each other.
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make autohiding panels respect layout geometry too? e.g. don't overlap
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autounhiding panels should not obscure other panels
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ContainerArea completness
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doesn't autoscroll when moving a container
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doesn't add items near the mouse even position
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Bring some standardization to how the various plugins are handled
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Allow menubar == mainpanel
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Move more of the buttons/ classes into menuext/
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Move appropriate applets into menuext/
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revisit libtaskbar and libtaskmanager
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coordinate with kasbar authors
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add support for composite
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revisit DCOP interface
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remove old/nonsensical calls
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extend with calls to:
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retrieve a panel dcop ref
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hide/unhide
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... ?
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libkicker
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document functions
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namespace it all (KickerLib?)
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prep for binary compat
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move
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Panner -> core/
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does taskbar really need to use Panner?
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rename
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global.h/cpp -> util.h/cpp
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add:
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ServiceMenu?
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PanelDrag?
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KPanelExtension
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KPanelApplet
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allow usage of KickerTip
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ExtensionSettings
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ExtensionButton
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poor name =/
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shouldn't be so menu-centric either
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Optimize!
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hiding: it seems there are more geometry calls made than really needed
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get rid of movies (which nobody really uses) in PanelButton
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Code clean ups
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remove pseudo transparency in favour of composite
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means handling composite properly, e.g. just the background and not
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the actual icons, text, etc.
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flatten the PanelExtension -> ContainerArea -> ContainerAreaLayout
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hierarchy. perhaps merge PanelExtension and ContainerArea?
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get rid of the insane number of classes in ui/?
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A _good_ theming system
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Being Worked On
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Applets
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Clock
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Use styleclock.nextVersion()
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Get rid of swallow applet
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Make trash an extension button
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Unnasigned
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+++++ Keyboard accessability
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We will follow the lead of the GNOME panel accessability work:
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http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/keynav/panelnav.html
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To summarise:
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- Ctrl-Alt-Tab cycles focus between panels [Shift to reverse]
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- Tab cycles focus between objects on the focused panel [Shift to
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reverse]
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- Arrow keys move focus within a focused applet
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- Space activates focused control (on panel or within an applet)
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+++++ Settings dialog fix up
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*** Now that we have KConfigXT, use it in the settings dialogs
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Convert the "Arrangement" and "Hiding" modules. "Menus" and
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"Appearance" are done as far as possible.
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++++ Floating panels
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**** When a panel is set to "floating" the following entries are added
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to the [General] config group:
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FloatingPosition <-- geometry.topLeft();
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FloatingOrientation <-- horizontal or vertical
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++++ Drag and drop enhancements
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*** Drag and drop behaviour is broken in various ways in kicker.
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A popup menu should appear on drop like in Konqueror and KMail.
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Dropping on buttons like QuickBrowsers, the Home icon, etc should
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behave consistently and like dropping to a file manager window.
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There are many DnD reports on bugs.kde.org which can provide
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further inspiration.
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++++ Systray icon layout
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**** The systray applet does a very basic homebrew layout of the icons
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that currently has several flawed assumptions that break when used
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with certain applications. These assumptions include that all icons
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in a given row will be approximately the same width and that things
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are always LTR (left to right). It should use a QGridLayout and
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do some semi-intelligent packing of the icons.
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++ Dialog for adding elements to the panel
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*** Context menus are primarily used by advanced users, and yet this is
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the only way to manage the items on the panel. There used to be a
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control panel that allowed turning on or off applets on the main panel
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but this is obviously too restrictive and I'd prefer not to see yet
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another tab in the kicker control panels. A dialog that shows previews
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of the specials buttons and applets and allows one to either drag and
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drop or with a button add items to a given panel would make kicker that
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much more accessable to more of our users.
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