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83326

Plasmoid Calendar: Calendar events view and edit

by Ioannis » Mon Nov 02, 2009 3:11 am • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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This idea is for a plasmoid calendar with a Kontact/Akonadi integration that provides simple view of registered events and a simple editing function.

Usage case: The mockup shows the procedure of adding a new event to the calendar. Days that have events are highlighted. Clicking on a day brings up a mini event list. Events are shown in order and include 'time', 'alarm'(highlighted when set), 'title' and mini 'description'. At the bottom of the event list there is an 'add' action, which brings up a larger panel to input the event's info. On the left hand-side of this new panel are the 'accept' and 'delete' actions, while on the right is a button that will launch Kontact for the specific event. Inputting the event's info is done by clicking on the appropriate fields. Once done, click the 'accept' button to finish editing and add the event to the list, or the 'delete' to reject it.
Existing events from the list are also clickable, bringing again the same editing panel. This allows editing or deleting existing events, or invoking Kontact for that particular event.
Colour coding indicates the type of an event. The mockup uses 'blue' for recurrent events (e.g. every second Tuesday, the user has 'Lunch with Kate'). Setting recurrent events requires launching Kontact, unless a simple UI can be found for this.

Rationale: Most calendar events are simple, thus making it possible to use a minimalistic interface for simple viewing and editing. Invoking a full blown calendar application, such as Kontact, to check or set simple events is cumbersome and inefficient.

Tags: plasma, calendar, akonadi, kontact, korganizer

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83234

Application UI locking with Kwallet

by Fri13 » Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:46 pm • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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There is great function to lock the session/screen (Ctrl+Alt+L for shortcut if not going trought kickoff) but it affects all use.

And we have great Kwallet what stores passwords for applications like kopete, kmail and so on.
But the Kwallet integration has staid somewhere middle what it really should be.

If I have Kwallet closed and I open a kopete. It ask password for Kwallet. If I do not give it it prompts a WLM/ICQ/AOL passwords. If I do not give them, I get Kopete open and I can edit data.

If I do same to Kmail, I get the Kmail open and I can open any data what is locally downloaded (POP, some IMAPS settings and so on) and I can even write emails what gets sended when connection is allowed. So this allows other person to write emails to waiting line and when I come to computer and I press "Get/Send emails" button, they get sended as well.

I would like to see that Kwallet actually LOCKS the application totally. So you can not touch it at all then. You can close it and open it again but it stays locked.

ps. There is other ideas how to lock the sensitive data from being tampered. This is just a mockup for locking the application UI itself.

Tags: kwallet, security, locking

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83304

circle in notifications should show progress

by deichschuh » Sun Nov 01, 2009 4:59 am • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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If you download a file, move files or do something similar, you get a nice little notification looking like this:

This is very nice, but instead of just rotating, the circle should show the progress of the actions, this could look a bit like in google chrome:

This would make it easier for the user to see the status of his actions, there would be no disadvantages as the rotating circle does nothing more than indicate that something is happening.

Tags: actions, notifications

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83059

using screen as backend for konsole (optional)

by jei » Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:29 pm • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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logout or X crash destroy all jobs running in a console (as 'konsole' session with multiple tabs) unless you embed your command in a 'screen' session.

I'm refering to:
console tasks which DO NOT involve X in any way, just plain console applications as:
- mv a b
- mplayer (for music listening)
- rsync ...
- scp ...
- wget/curl ...
any X referencing program would of course fail when X is going down.

== what i want ==
konsole should be able to use screen in an transparent way, so once you open 4 tabs in 'konsole' you have also 4 screen sessions running. once X goes down kde is restarting konsole on relogin. now konsole looks for orphaned 'screens' and resumes them.

please read [1] for more details. i consider this use-case straight forward since the benefit is obvious to anyone who had a frequently crashing X with low bandwidth links for instance when downloading with wget instead of kget.

[1] http://invalidmagic.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/process-control-on-logout/

Tags: konsole, console, x, session, session-resume

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82915

Initial Dolphin Plugin System

by sewert » Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:12 pm • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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The file management software is one of the most important components of a desktop environment. Since every user uses it, it is also responsible for a large part of the user experience. However, depending on the technical background of the user he/she might have completely different needs from a file management software. To keep the user interface clean but still to be able to fulfill the needs of the individual user a plugin system for dolphin would be a viable option. The success of the firefox extension system speaks for itself.

However, integrating a complete Firefox-like extension system into the existing dolphin would be infeasible. But for the start there could be a small subset of dolphins functionality which could be customized by plugins, for example: plugins can decide to put overlay icons above the icons displayed by dolphin.

Use cases:
1.) Jeff is a developer and would like to have a small overlay over his file icons, so that he can easily see, which files he has changed since his last SVN checkout.

2.) April is an FTP admin and has to deal with a lot of data. She would like to have an overlay over her file icons, indicating which files have a corrupt MD5 value and which ones are OK.

3.) Tom has a lot of files that don't offer file extensions. He only wants to use the analysis results from 'file' and wants to store this analysis data in meta files.

4.) Tina is a web developer and wants user interface elements allowing for an easy and comfortable synchronized browsing experience, i.e. Left Panel is a local folder, right panel holds an FTP folder. Both panels show the same folder hierarchy. Now if the user clicks on any folder in one panel, the other panel automatically also changes to that subfolder. (this use case is stolen from idea 61915)

Tags: dolphin, plug-in

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83546

Live printing preview

by Solid1986Snake » Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:36 am • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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Hi,

I hope the most of you are familiar with the printing dialog of acrobat reader...

For the ones that are not here a little screenshot..

Well my idea is now to get such a dialog done in kde, expecially the printing preview..

Its actually very hard to print something more special than a one sided print...

specially its really a mess to get 4 or more pages on one paper in the right direction you want, especially when you want to print the pages in reverse order...

Don't want to talk about duplex printing...

I never get the really right setup in the current printing dialog. I know that I know that theres the option to influence the printing direction, but its a really complex to order the pages in my mind before setting everything up...

A little nifty picture would make much more easier...

Tags: kprinterdialog, okular

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82963

Title bar plugins

by cloudslayer » Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:57 am • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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One of the main advantages of using KDE is the amazing amount of customizability one gets from the plasma desktop. I believe this freedom should be added to other parts of the desktop environment. My idea is to make it possible to add plugins to the title bar of applications.

This is, in a way, already there, as it's currently possible to add and remove different buttons. What I propose is to extend on this functionality: make it easy for developers to write simple plugins which can be added to the titlebar, and offer a GHNS interface to add these plugins.

Many of the ideas that are currently floating around here could be implemented in this way:

If all plugins are forced to be simple buttons:

http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea64847 (a button which resizes the screen tot maximum size without overlapping other windows)
http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea82868 (Title bar per-application volume buttons)

If plugins can be anything (not just buttons):

http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea61999 (Combining title and main menu bars)
Can't seem to find the url (group multiple windows of the same application (google chrome style))

The advantage of this system would be that these plugins would be very easy to add for users, but they wouldn't get in the way of users who don't want them. It would also allow extreme amounts of innovations as everyone who has an idea would be able to implement it by themselves, and it doesn't have any disadvantages as nothing changes for users who don't care about these features.

Tags: None

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61866

Libre.fm support

by Dinth » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:53 am • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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Libre.fm is completly free and opensource alternative for Last.fm. It would be very nice if Amarok would support it. Especially now, when last.fm started to take money for their services, and users have need for alternatives.

Tags: amarok

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63024

Add install application to application launcher

by ofir » Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:15 pm • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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After a fresh install I try to install all needed applications on the first boot.

However, many times I forget some. It would be great if when I try to search for the application that is not yet installed in application launcher, it will display me an option to install this application (along with the "search web for ..." option that is already displayed).

I made a simple mock-up explaining the idea:

This idea is similar to the one already implemented in the terminal, ie, if amarok is not installed and you run `amarok` in the terminal, a message will be displayed saying that you can run a command to install amarok:

The program 'amarok' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install amarok
bash: amarok: command not found

Tags: plasma

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38865

Saved views

by TheBlackCat » Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:42 pm • Status: Validated In Progress Pre-existing Done Won't fix Duplicate Invalid Submitted Awaiting validation

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This is an idea for Dolphin. Saved views are a way to take the entire current view, everything you can set under “view properties” as well as panels and panel locations, splits, etc., and store it for later use on other folders. This would most likely take the form of a submenu in the “view” menu and/or a menu button. It would show a list of all current saved views, as well as a button at the end for “create new...” that would allow you to name the current view and store it to the list. That way you can then use it wherever you want. This is based on SeaJey's suggestion here.

This is part of my series of Dolphin ideas

Tags: dolphin

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