So alpha2 of Plasmate got rolled out a day or so ago, and here I am again to give you an obligatory what’s-new screencast! This is my first ever voiced screencast too. Hope I’m legible :) Here goes…
OGG here
And that summarizes the larger part of the changes we committed since last month. Big thanks here to Sandro who hacked up the much anticipated GHNS integration at Tokamak! It only works for plasmoids now and has a fair number of kinks, but its good and sweet enough for a try out.
The plasmoid use case is pretty stable now, especially after a fix that came with 4.4.1 permitting python plasmoids to have a main script name other than ‘main.py’. Folks joining the Javascript Jam might want to give it a whirl, it may make your life easier! As for non-plasmoids, they edit, install and export perfectly now, and we’ll be diving in towards implementing previewers for them very soon. Great things lie ahead!
As Aseigo noted, you can get the alpha2 source tarball here. OpenSUSE users can grab it packaged from KDE:KDE4:Playground thanks to Will Stephenson.
Happy hacking!
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saLOUt
Hi,
which programs do you use to create/edit such a screencast?
Jason "moofang"
recordmydesktop :) I didn’t edit it, but if you needed to edit a video you can try kdenlive.
anoneemouse
Why are you showing more information in tooltips and not in columns next to the projects? And show more projects could just expand the existing list into a scrollable widget instead of showing a new dialog. There is lots of space there, why not use it? Will there be a GUI editor in there somewhere? This looks like fun… could be a nice little hobby to hack on plasmoids :)
Jason "moofang"
I’ve been playing with it. Mainly because there isn’t much space if you add even 2 columns, project names are usually longer than the test-projects you see in my screencast, and fields like author name and such can get pretty long too. Right now a tooltip seems to be the most sensible way to neatly present all the useful metainformation. I don’t know, maybe I’ll eventually add a column or two..
The front page list is meant to be a quick-resume for recent projects. Too many in this list adds cognitive overhead as well as clutter. And there can potentially be a lot of projects, so it makes sense to have a separate interface when dealing with ‘all projects’ as opposed to ‘recent projects’. The dialog also gives us a convenient location for project management functionalities like deleting projects – and eventually searching and mass export/importing etc.
We do plan to eventually integrate something like Qt Designer, but it isn’t too likely that that will make the initial release.
Happy hacking :)