Every once in a while I write a post related to relations between
lancelot and kmail or kopete.
This time it is only to notify you that until KMail2 arrives*, the
‘unread mail’ section in Lancelot will not work since L in SC 4.5
switched to Akonadi.
if PIM devs don’t miss the initial plan, it will be for 4.5.1
There were a lot of complaints when we decided to limit the size of
icons placed on panels in plasma to 32x32 pixels.
The reasoning behind limiting the size were requests from users who
use vertical panels - vertical panels are usually made wider then
standard panels, and icons would grow to 300x300 pixels taking up most
of the space on the panel.
Putting a maximum size for icons was a good decision generally, but
the bad side of it was that the new size was hard-coded. There was an
option in the system settings to change sizes of icons, but setting the
size for panel icons was disabled.
Now, thanks to a patch by Mike Kasick, this option is enabled and it
works. Mike is one of the best types of users - although he isn’t a
Plasma contributor (as far as I know - no SVN account) he sent us a
patch, and responded to all of our suggestions with revised
versions.
In the end, Aaron and myself adapted the proposed patch a bit to
better fit the rest of Plasma, and it entered the SVN so it is on its
way to KDE SC 4.5.
In KDE SC 4.5, the option is located in System Settings ->
Application Appearance -> Icons -> Advanced -> Panel
It is a well known fact that devs hate writing the user documentation
(we are not even fond of writing devel documentation), so it was the
same case for me and Lancelot’s manual.
But from time to time our conscience tells us that we should do
something about it. In this case, the role of my conscience was played
by annma :)
The comparison is most probably biased (although I tried hard for it
not to be), so any help in that department is appreciated. (any help in
any department is more than appreciated)
Now, the article that is yet left to be written is the introduction
to the Shelf applet (ex Lancelot Part) and I’ll be able to rest on my
laurels with the shiny new Lancelot that will be published with the KDE
SC 4.5. :)
Preamble: I have no intention to start a dispute
related to the new applet browser in Plasma. Some people like it, some
don’t, some prefer the old one, some want something completely
different…
As you don’t already know :), Marco did some great work which I’m not
gonna talk about - he said he’ll make a screencast of it eventually. So
I’ll just mention a side-effect of that made possible by a 1-minute
patch by yours truly.
KRunner (and Lancelot, naturally) as widget
explorers
From KDE SC 4.5, you’ll be able to fire up KRunner or Lancelot,
search for some plasma widget and drag it to the desktop.
KRunner
Well, that’s all :)
Edit: You can also create a shortcut like Meta+P to
open krunner with only this /plasma/ runner enabled via Global Shortcuts
(thanks vilder for info)
