Lancelot not for 4.o
Due to a lot of SPAM pingbacks waiting for moderation, I have realized that I haven’t posted anything for a long time.
So, what is happening?
Unfortunately not much. At the moment, I have to prepare my exams, and therefore I don’t have enough time to prepare Lancelot for 4.o even in the state I wanted it to be.
This maybe is even a good thing. Lancelot was supposed to be useful for 4.o, but without most of the advanced features and reconfigurability. I suppose that I would get a vast amount of feature requests that I already planned to have in the future. Besides that, people would probably be turned off of Lancelot and would never give it a second chance.
FlipLayout
Some things /are/ done which were planned for 4.1. The latest is rearranging the items… or to call it flipping.
The thing that is responsible for rearranging is the FlipLayout which is a meta-layout that is able to use any other layout for the actual item arranging, but flips it horizontally, vertically or both.
Here is an example of creating the layout:
layoutMain =
new Lancelot::FlipLayout
< Plasma::BorderLayout >
();
And this is everything you needed to do. The FlipLayout is a drop-in replacement for any other layout so the only change you need to make to your code to add the flip support is to replace YourLayout with Lancelot::FlipLayout < YourLayout > - and that’s it.
Note: as you can see, the FlipLayout is in Lancelot’s namespace - it is not in libplasma. If you would like it to be in libplasma, just ask…
i dont like this closed opensource development
thats not how it works .. 
but i can understand why you do this, but this is not how it works
Comment by chris — December 1, 2007 @ 11:28 am
chris: ehm, where does he speak about closed source development? and what is closed opensource development? pardon?
and to the lancelot developer(s): thanks for spending your time to kde, this is a great plasmoid!
Comment by litb — December 1, 2007 @ 11:41 am
chris: Lancelot is in the SVN repository … nothing’s closed.
Comment by Sho — December 1, 2007 @ 12:06 pm
I am eager to use the completed lancelot
BTW i had a look at your resume today, and dude you are awesome. You excel in studies , do projects, contribute to open source, play guitar, you have received quite a lot awards and.. many more.
Really good to know to about you
Comment by Gopala Krishna — December 1, 2007 @ 1:01 pm
Dud, thanks, the FlipLayout will help for Hebrew and Arabic users. I assume you plan in merging when a branch is taken?
Comment by elcuco — December 1, 2007 @ 3:49 pm
i was actually looking at flip layout a week or two ago when i made some api changes to the layouts. neat.
and yeah, please feel free to move it into libplasma (workspace/libs/plasma/layouts of course =)
Comment by Aaron J. Seigo — December 1, 2007 @ 8:26 pm
As some of the people here mentioned, L is in KDE’s SVN. You could call it ‘closed’ only in a sense that I’m the only one working on it and making decisions for it.
@Gopala Krishna
Thanks! What can I say, it all just happened accidentally
@Aaron
Well, … I’ll write you an e-mail
Comment by admin — December 2, 2007 @ 8:17 am