Kamion - We’re Almost There
These past few days had been good for Kamion.
The code for extracting the archives has been rewritten from scratch and comitted to the KDE’s SVN. The library now supports adding shell wildcards for resource definition in the XML configuration files. (version of the library is 0.9.2)
The Kamion GUI news
The GUI is almost complete and ready for testing (well, it will be when I put the testing XML configuration files somewhere where you can get them from).
The main visible change is the new confirmation and finalization steps. Unfortunately, the QT’s support for HTML is low so the looks are not as fancy as I wanted them to be, but I’m satisfied. You can see them in the screenshots:
And for the end of this post I would like to thank you all for being interested in this project. Special thanks to Nathan Sanders who has been monitoring this project since the beginning. Cheers!
This is a great approach to moving from one KDE station to another.
It seems with current approach, a new application can be added to the library only in a form of c++ code.
How about offloading some of the job onto the creators of the applications and power users, like me. I wouldn’t mind writing “plugins” for additional apps in some more beginner-friendly language like Python.
Offloading and allowing others to write “my application’s settings export and import” plugins solves 2 problems:
- frees you from doing it
- allows application creators to avoid hard-coding the export-import functions for their settings. Kamion can just become another KDE4 frame-work. Muahahaha!
Comment by Daniel "Suslik" D. — March 9, 2007 @ 10:13 pm
The conversion of the data from one app version to another is not supported (at least not yet) because I do not think that the developers would want to provide scripts needed for the conversion to take place.
Comment by Ivan Čukić — March 10, 2007 @ 1:48 pm