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Lancelot brainstorming

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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:14 am
This may be getting too far off of Lancelot's intended purpose, but would it be possible to make the individual lancelot components available as runners? It would be entirely within the krunner interface, there would be one runner for each lancelot section and they could be enabled and disabled as the user wants. Ideally users would be able to set the keyword to use, and better yet could set one or more of the runners to show up immediately when krunner appears, before the user types anything, and would disappear when the user starts typing (unless the user types the keyword).
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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Sun Jul 12, 2009 6:27 am
I work with with embedded, in kde I'm only a user. I have regretted many times switching from kde3 too soon. I happened to notice lancelot on KDE apps, and having a lazy moment, installed it.
It does make life easier, I like it a lot, so thank you for that.
Now my €0.02: the single item I find myself missing most is simply the ability to click on on an empty desktop to get a menu. I assume it cannot be far away, but haven't taken the time to find out.
If this is off-topic, I withdraw in shame.
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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Tue Jul 28, 2009 9:57 pm
Another thing. Currently when I have more than one lancelot plasmoid, and I change settings like which session managment buttons I have visible, those changes apply to every instance of the plasmoid. It would be nice if I could change them independently for each instance of lancelot.


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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Tue Jul 28, 2009 10:13 pm
@TheBlackCat
1. No, I don't intend to do that - most of the things that are in L are already in krunner.
2. There is always only one instance of the menu, no matter how much applets you have. I will not even consider the alternative since it would make L use n times more memory (where n is the number of applets). And it would need a *big* framework change.

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There is a GSoC project that deals with plugins for desktop clicks. When it is introduced in the trunk KDE, I'll add a plugin for L.


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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:30 pm
ivan; just ran Kubuntu's latest alpha, and Lancelot's still showing the black border :/


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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Mon Sep 07, 2009 8:39 am
Dante - do you have compositing turned on? AIUI the black border issue is only present when you can't use Desktop Effects.


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Mon Sep 07, 2009 9:38 am
No, I don't have it turned on...


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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Wed Sep 09, 2009 7:35 pm
Well, even with composite off you shouldn't really get the black border - the plasma theme should provide the opaque dialog background... which theme are you using (it may be my fault that the theme is incomplete ;) )


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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:38 am
@Ivan - I use oxyglass. I've tried several themes, and quite a few fail. As well as the black border I get a black opaque menu for logout/shutdown, with only the icons visible. Turning compositing on stops all that, but screen refreshes are so slow (old ATi card) that it's not worth it. When I asked on the kde-fedora list I was told firmly to stick to the three or four supplied themes.


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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:48 am
Well, most of the time it is the fault of the theme. Especially since the problem we introduced by making air the default theme so that all previously incomplete themes now pull elements from the air (a white theme) instead of oxygen (a black theme). But that's another topic.


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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:04 am
Hmmm....odd, mine has now fixed itself...

I'm using the carbon theme.


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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Thu Sep 10, 2009 1:01 pm
I'm one of those that loved the transparent panel, so a heavy black panel or staring light one is uncomfortable for me. I like a panel that blends as near as possible into the desktop colours, and in the absence of transparent panel I opt for oxyglass, as of all the ones I've tried, that's nearest. If I have to choose between a pleasant panel for 99.9%+ of my time at the computer and losing some lancelot display, or getting a nice lancelot display and hating my desktop, you can guess which I choose. Sorry Ivan - no disrespect to lancelot. When I get a laptop capable of using compositing (or drivers improve, though for a 4-year old model I doubt it) things will be different.


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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Thu Nov 26, 2009 9:58 pm
I love lancelot, but there is only one issue that bothers me. Why can't I change the size of the big icons on the left? I think we should be given the possibility, by using the mouse, to expand or shrink it. Just like you can do with the entire menu, you should be able to do within the menu...
Sorry about my bad english. I hope you understand anyway.
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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Thu Nov 26, 2009 10:09 pm
@dajomu
Understood. That is something that I'm planning to do eventually.


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Re: Lancelot brainstorming

Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:27 pm
I use Lancelot instead of standard Kickoff menu and I have a suggestion. In a left panel when you move the cursor over "Computer" icon, there are all partitions on the HDD visible, could you add an information about how much disk space is free and used on each device listed? I like the way it's displayed in Konqueror on Opensuse, with sysinfo:/ kioslave, maybe you could do it that way. It would be useful to have such quick disk space overview with just 1 click and 1 move of the mouse. Is it possible to implement?


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