I am disappointed…
August 29th, 2006Tags:SoKSebastian Trüg told me there will be no support for me to go Dublin for aKademy 2006. And I surely can’t afford the cost… Tell the truth, I am very sad about this, and I am very disappointed…
Problem on implement category choosing
August 25th, 2006Tags:KDE KNotes SoKI want to build a convenient ui for user to choose categories. Probably, one note has more than one category. At first, I try to put something like checkbox in the KMenu, so the menu shouldn’t close after being clicked. The standard way is put a KToggleAction or set KAction::setCheckable(). But they all would close the QMenu after being clicked.
Then I tried QCheckBox. It appeared in the up-left of menu, but only one is putted. QCheckBox requires a QWidget in constructor, so I can set it to QMenu. The QCheckBox can keep menu open after it was clicked, but I think there will be difficult to implement it well like this.
The qt-4.2 add a QWidgetAction. At first, I think using QWidgetAction can slove this. But later I realized the QWidgetACtion is still a action, and menu may still close after it send clicked signal to QWidgetAction.
Brade told me check QMenu’s code to find reason. I found the source of closing menu after a action was click, and trying to override the mouse event now. If I success, I may commit a update to KMenu. 
When I look into QMenu’s source code, I am feeling the power of Open Source….
If I failed, I will choose a traditional way : a category dialog.
The development of KNotes goes too well…
August 24th, 2006Tags:KDE KNotes SoKIt’s amazing…
Just two days ago, I was anxious about if I can complete it on time. But after two days work, the process far beyond my imagine.
Now I completed the classified note menu. The categories information was stored in journal object, as it was. So I only set the categories and classified it.
Now click the icon in systray will show sub menus, with different categories name. There is a “Default” categories, which was provided for note with no category. The next step was adding setting function of category. I supposed to implement it as a sub menu with can be checked and unchecked. Also a function provide adding.
In fact, I didn’t store category information. If there is no note with this category, the one will be deleted automaticlly. This design may be changed later. But I think it is proper for no delete function.
Set up schedule for KNote
August 22nd, 2006Tags:KDE KNotes SoKMaybe it is too late for this.
I am very sorry about the delay of KNote development. I am trying to find a balance between my intern job and KNote development. But it seems I am failed in the last serveral weeks. Intern job makes me very tired.
I set a schedule now in order to catch up with process:
8.31 Complete function experiment 9.10 Complete categories first version in KNote 10.10 Complete categories function in KNote 11.10 Complete update in Kontact
The time before Sep 10th is few. I even a little doubt about if I can complete first version on time. But on the other side, I don’t think it is difficult if I am more familiar with KDE development.
I will have a try.
Completed enviorment set up….
August 5th, 2006It is so slowly. I almost can’t bear endless problems in compiling KDE4 and kdepim. It’s a nightmare, and the reason I didn’t find yet. 
I wasted two weeks on setting up enviorment, partly because of my intern takes me much time. It also because of my inexperience. In fact, in these day, I was so dispirited…
I will speed up on development.
That’s all by now.
Doing intern job and working on Season of KDE
July 20th, 2006The KDE e.V. annouanced “Season of KDE” formally these days. And the site is opened for introducing and progress tracking. I’m very glad to be one of the twelve persons which were chosen to attend this job.
I got the basicly idea in my preparing period for SoC. So it’s much easier to implement it. It seems that the time(about three months) is more than enough. And my mentor - Michael Blade will be help me to complete it. All the things seems well.
But there is a little trouble. I am doing my intern job in Beijing now. The only available time is weekend and nights. What is lucky is the leader allowed me to install enviorment on my computer in company - I didn’t take a laptop. Now the debian is ready. I will compile knotes with KDE 4.0 before this weekend. Then development will begin.
I discarded the idea about write a gadget for Google Desktop which I mentioned before. Though only submit a gadget successful can get a T-shirt, I don’t have enough time to do it. I think my intern and SoK is more important.
So, please look forward to my progress.
BTW: The trouble which is bother me these days has been sloved temporary. I found a place to live in for one month. But what’s going on next month, I don’t know. The Beijing is at least 2 times prices of commodities of Wuhan. What a pity…
