February 6, 2008
Lancelot applet close to finish
Just to show that there /is/ something happening with Lancelot, here is the new configuration interface for the Lancelot applet (just for the launching applet - not the application itself)
The applet is mostly finished (feature-wise).
It can be vertical (if in a vertical panel) or horizontal (default - on desktop or horizontal panel). It now scales as it should so you will not get it taking 50% of your panel…
The icon can be customized (unlike the current menus in 4.0 - both use KDE logo as icon)…
There still are a few glitches - or to say crashes 
- while applying the configuration on a working applet, but that will be fixed soon.
Do you plan to release a stable version for KDE 4.0.x? Or KDE 4.1?
Comment by Augu — February 6, 2008 @ 3:12 pm
Congrats and thanks for your great work (including the stuff on the effects front).
Unfortunately building from svn don’t seem to include the Lancelot launcher (or at least an updated version - last time I’ve seen a gui-update was last year’s november or so). That is a pity since I really enjoyed playing with your new menu-concept.
I am looking forward to the day you release this fine piece of software and I can play again
Comment by Tom Vollerthun — February 6, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
Looks super,
it’s not in svn indeed, so can’t test it.
I’ve made a list with all known applets. perhaps you can add the information to it (or mail me the info), because I didn’t know much about it.
here is the page: http://techbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Projects/Plasma/Plasmoids#Lancelot_Launcher
great work by the way!!
Comment by Thomas Coopman — February 6, 2008 @ 3:37 pm
Well, I don’t know when the stable version will be released. I’m aiming the 4.1, but it is possible that it will be sooner.
@Top
The SVN commit was yesterday - late in the evening. And one today - o a couple of fixes.
Comment by admin — February 6, 2008 @ 3:38 pm
I find the radio buttons to choose the logo a quite bit “illogical”, usability wise. Why don’t use a box where you can select the default images you have, with a button “More…” to choose other images?
Comment by Vide — February 6, 2008 @ 4:12 pm
hello!
lancelot looks great (I’ve had it running some time ago from the opensuse repo).. but since I’m compiling kde4 myself I don’t get it to work.. like many other programs… I’m always getting errors like these:
Unknown CMake command “QT4_ADD_DBUS_INTERFACE”.
or: Unknown CMake command “qt4_add_dbus_adaptor”.
or: Unknown CMake command “kde4_add_unit_test”.
I’m using the bash function cmakekde from the techbase example.
does anybody know what’s going wrong? I didn’t find any hint on the techbase homepage and also googling for these messages didn’t give me a solution
Comment by Bernhard — February 6, 2008 @ 6:24 pm
(Just a random thought building off if Vide’s). You could use the same dropdown widget used to select wallpapers for the desktop.
(I haven’t figured out how to use Lancelot yet btw. I recall reading you had to launch some program before the plasmoid would work. I’ll figure it out next time I log into KDE4.)
Comment by kwilliam — February 7, 2008 @ 1:13 am
I’m not very fond of combos, but I’ll put this in the TODO list, but with a bit lower priority since there are more important things than the ui of config dialog.
@Bernhard
There is sometinhg wrong with your cmake setup. Like it can not find the kde4 related cmake scripts…
@kwilliam
You don’t need to run anything. You just need to fix your d-bus. Place the file $KDE4ROOT/kde/share/dbus-1/services/org.kde.lancelot.service
into your d-bus services directory (/usr/share/dbus-1/services)
Comment by admin — February 7, 2008 @ 6:39 am
Nice! Any screenshot of the menu? Thanks.
Comment by Pepiniyo — February 7, 2008 @ 10:04 am
You have menu screenshots in previous posts about Lancelot. There is also this one that appeared on commit digest.
Comment by admin — February 7, 2008 @ 10:20 am
I’ll look forward to it in KDE 4.1 or hopefully hopefully hopefully sooner.
Please work on more if you can and time permits.
Thanks for your great work!
Comment by fengshaun — February 11, 2008 @ 11:32 pm
p.s it this can be translated? i can help POLISH VERSION.
Comment by kwpolska — February 24, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
It will be a part of KDE translation/localization system, so yes, it will have the translations possible/available.
Comment by admin — February 24, 2008 @ 3:52 pm