> On Okt. 14, 2014, 6:38 nachm., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > I'm not understanding the changes in Plasma Netbook. Why do you want the 
> > Netbook shell on OSX while on the other side you disabled the desktop 
> > shell? AFAIK you cannot replace the shell of OSX, so having Netbook sounds 
> > pretty useless to me.
> 
> René J.V. Bertin wrote:
>     The point is not to have the shell, but to have access to plasmoids via 
> plasma-windowed (or plasmoid-viewer if that application is still around and 
> functional).
>     I've tried to explain that I have made a rather coarse selection 
> (everything also included in MS Windows builds and that actually builds) 
> rather than hand-picking only those components that would have a potential 
> use. Doing so I indeed noticed that the desktop shell was excluded on Win32 
> but not the netbook shell. It didn't take me long to realise that the netbook 
> shell is different enough from the usual desktop paradigm to be of interest 
> to some users, to the extent that it can be made to function in a rooted, 
> normal window of course.
>     I am of course open to feedback concerning the components that can be 
> removed from the build without effect on components that do have a use.
>     
>     If I may think aloud a little bit:
>     Netbook or Desktop shells ... they open (fullscreen) windows in practice, 
> right? If so, there could be an (academic?) interest in supporting them but 
> with a regular window, allowing the user to set up a sort of MDI version of a 
> desktop shell with "goodies" that would give a more coherent experience than 
> running those same goodies individually on the OS X desktop. One could also 
> think of a "shell" that only serves to host panels and widgets, not unlike 
> Yahoo! Widgets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Widgets)

> Netbook or Desktop shells ... they open (fullscreen) windows in practice, 
> right?

no, they open "desktop" windows.

> If so, there could be an (academic?) interest in supporting them but with a 
> regular window

no, that's what plasma-windowed is for. And I'm certainly not giving a +1 for 
the rather big changes to netbook shell if the only need is on an academic 
scale ;-)


- Martin


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On Okt. 14, 2014, 6:06 nachm., René J.V. Bertin wrote:
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> (Updated Okt. 14, 2014, 6:06 nachm.)
> 
> 
> Review request for KDE Software on Mac OS X and kde-workspace.
> 
> 
> Repository: kde-workspace
> 
> 
> Description
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> 
> A few rather straightforward patches to make the relevant bits of KDE4's 
> kde-workspace build and function on OS X.
> The main interest is having the systemsettings control panel to control the 
> various relevant KDE settings among which desktop search, fonts, colours and 
> even style.
> The oxygen style builds and looks good but shows some updating glitches due 
> to compositing.
> 
> I'm submitting this patch partly in hope it may be useful in bringing 
> kf5-workspace to OS X, one day.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   CMakeLists.txt df8a1f7 
>   kcontrol/CMakeLists.txt fc666b1 
>   kcontrol/krdb/krdb.cpp 36fc99c 
>   kcontrol/style/CMakeLists.txt d832b20 
>   libs/CMakeLists.txt c0576fe 
>   plasma/CMakeLists.txt 199dbb0 
>   plasma/generic/shells/plasma-windowed/plasmaapp.cpp dbdff47 
>   plasma/netbook/CMakeLists.txt 1eff685 
>   plasma/netbook/containments/CMakeLists.txt c96a688 
>   plasma/desktop/CMakeLists.txt 2de78dd 
>   plasma/desktop/applets/CMakeLists.txt 6f80cec 
>   plasma/generic/CMakeLists.txt cfaf14f 
>   plasma/generic/applets/CMakeLists.txt 2b888ee 
>   plasma/generic/dataengines/CMakeLists.txt d240683 
>   plasma/generic/runners/CMakeLists.txt 6831ac0 
>   plasma/generic/shells/plasma-windowed/CMakeLists.txt 86b7770 
>   plasma/generic/shells/plasma-windowed/Info.plist.template PRE-CREATION 
> 
> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120287/diff/
> 
> 
> Testing
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> 
> On OS X 10.6.8 and 10.9.4 with KDE/MacPorts (4.12.5 and more recently kdelibs 
> git/master, 4.14.1).
> 
> 
> File Attachments
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> 
> copy of the diff file saved locally, which had no tabs when I uploaded it. 
> Checksum: 3989cdd46af3c891e570974d66c330403dcd41c4ee5e17a372fa385080cbabd1 
>   
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2014/09/20/b212730f-6258-4277-851c-226bc0673aa1__patchreview-20140920.patch
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> René J.V. Bertin
> 
>

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