[Edyuk-devel] Back on the mailing list!

[full.metal c. <ful...@ho...>]

Hi all,

After a while spent on solving my (weird) problem with mailing lists I fina=
lly created a new e-mail address and suscribed to the mailing list so as to=
 be allowed to post here using my hotmail address. As my previous messages =
didn't reach any of you I'll sum up what you should have learnt earlier...

1) The proposal of updating forms to use QDialogButtonBox and comply better=
 with desktop standards is pretty good but I don't think we should loose Qt=
 4.1 compatibility so early so my answer is this : feel free to update the =
forms but keep the previous ones and rename the new ones (adding a prefix t=
o files and top class names such as V2 or D, for Desktop aware or whatever =
else... this can be discussed) and modify implementations accordingly with =
macros :

#if QT_VERSION >=3D 0x00040200
 #include "ui_x_d.h"
#else=20
 #include "ui_x.h"
#endif

2) We need a motto and a logo. Honestly I'm not skilled enough to craft the=
 second one and maybe not imaginative enough to find the first one. My only=
 idea ATM is : "Rock'n'Troll is so cute!"

3) The rc1 released two weeks ago was a short-term success : 130 downloads =
the first day but then an average of 15-20 dl/days. I'm waiting for your fe=
edback...

4) Single application component is here! The general config tab is now full=
y-working! :D It was very important and must have been done prior to any fi=
le-association taks. BTW file asociation is done by default under KDE but i=
t should be extended to other platforms and made configurable.

5) The shortcuts manager has evolved and moved to QCumber module (with QSin=
gleApplication) it is now designed so as to allow editors to register their=
 shortcuts, as asked by Jan St=F6fer.

6) I've worked hard on rewriting the project management using the new QHier=
archicalModel framework and came to a quite decent result : the loading is =
now much faster in absolute, modifications are done in a smoother way, upda=
te quirks have been suppressed and the loading is done in a separate thread=
 to avoid GUI freeze.

7) The next major step is a generic configuration of editors and highlighte=
r/matcher/... I already have some ideas but not a fixed concept reguarding =
the way settings should be stored and edited. Shall we assign a config to e=
ach widget type (registered panels and editors) or to each editor-key (whic=
h is basically an association of previously mentionned widgets to make an u=
sable editing widget) ? Another question, raised in QtCentre where I had an=
nounced earlier QCodeEdit, is the file format used for language definitions=
. Some suggested INI, some mentionned the Kate definitions... http://www.qt=
centre.org/forum/f-qt-software-16/t-qcodeedit-3178.html  What do you guys t=
hink???

With luck a rc2 could be released within a week or two and a 0.8.0 final sh=
ould be ready within a month at most.

cheers

fmc=20

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