Well, the QtCentre Programming Contest 2oo8 is finally over and the
winners are announced. OK, we all knew we are winners a month ago, but
at that time we were called just finalists :)
Just to notify you all bug seekers out there not to file bugs against
Lancelot in the Beta 1 of KDE 4.2 because most of them were fixed since
the Beta 1 was tagged. If filing a new bug, please test whether it
exists in the trunk.
I must say that the Lancelot brainstorm
topic on KDE forums is a success. Thanks to everyone who decided to
get involved, and a special thanks goes to Aaron for twitting about it
(I guess that it brought a fair share of visitors).
Updates
As of today, Lancelot can (again) be considered stable enough (the
trunk version that is) for daily usage. We are nearing KDE 4.2, which in
Lancelot’s terms mean that we are nearing the 1.5 version. Although it
is a .x upgrade to 1.0 that was released for KDE 4.1 in September this
year, it is far from being a minor update. I can freely say that it now
has all the features that I need* :). Now, there is only a matter of
getting used to being able to use it without the mouse at all (I’ve got
used to having to click on the search result to activate it instead of
just pressing Enter).
this is one of the reasons i decided to create the brainstorm topic
- it is easier just to ask you what you want, than to guess :)
Issues
I said ‘stable enough’, not perfect, so there are a couple of items I
need to fix. For example, the scrollbars in the application browser
sometimes show up in a wrong place (no, I’ll restrain myself of
commenting on QGV layouting mechanisms and quirks).
The second is a problem related to theming of the parts applet - the
scrollbars are not shown in the part applet (that is, they are shown as
1 pixel wide lines) because there is no theme for them yet. I will
probably use the default scrollbars from the Plasma theme for the parts
applet (not for the menu though).
Since I have received so many complaints because “Lancelot doesn’t
follow/obey/… Plasma theme”, and I am tired of pointing the people to
the FAQ,
I decided to make the necessary files needed by Lancelot for all Plasma
themes that ship with plasma-addons package.
I’ve started a topic on KDE
forums where you can enter all your wishes related to Lancelot. I
think it is far better place than the comments section in blog
posts.
