Sebastian blogged about HTML5 WAC application support in Plasma, complete with a screencast, and it is looking really promising. Tizen, the combined effort of Intel and Samsung, is focusing on WAC which itself is nicely documented here. Plasma's flexibility in this area makes this a nice way to add to the number and variety of add-ons available for Plasma enabled devices.
Does this mean will Vivaldi have WAC support? the answer is "Yes, when the WAC script engine is ready". As it is self-contained in its own git repository and being added to the growing list of OBS packages available to those making Plasma Active images this will be trivial to ship as a post-launch update when it is ready.
In addition to getting WAC apps loading (something Marco did initial work on), Sebastian has also been implementing API access permissions and the Device Status API. The API permissions UI is important as we will almost certainly end up using this for native Plasma add-ons written in QML. There is a lot of other WAC API that needs implementing. If you're interested in hacking on this, check out the git repo with `git clone git://anongit.kde.org/scratch/sebas/plasma-scriptengine-wac`, or if you have set up git URL rewriting (which you should if you use KDE git repos as it saves on hassle) `git clone kde:scratch/sebas/plasma-scriptengine-wac`.
On a sidenote, I also fixed a bug that is visible in Sebastian's screencast where tooltips do not hide as they should when dragging a widget from the new QML based Add Widgets UI. Thinking of Sebastian's screencast, I wondered if anyone would have found it helpful had I recorded the process of fixing such a bug. It's an every day sort of thing to me, but would aspiring KDE hackers find it useful to see how those of us working on Plasma today accomplish such tasks? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
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I would have found helpful a screencast of the fixing of the bug. I think any kind of documentation or knowledge transfer is useful and I would classify the screencast as such.
I'd like to learn from the master. :-)
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On a sidenote, I also fixed a bug that is visible in Sebastian's screencast where tooltips do not hide as they should when dragging a widget from the new QML based Add Widgets UI. Thinking of Sebastian's screencast, I wondered if anyone would have found it helpful had I recorded the process of fixing such a bug. It's an every day sort of thing to me, but would aspiring KDE hackers find it useful to see how those of us working on Plasma today accomplish such tasks? Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
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YES! That would certainly be very helpful! Though in my case it would just be interesting to see how you do it :) The way i try to fix things is as follows:
As the very first step i download the PKGBUILD (archlinux) for my current KDE version that contained the executable where i want to fix a bug. From there on i try to fix it in that version first.
If that works then i move to GIT. The issue with moving to GIT is very often different dependencies/version issues. Lately with kdelibs that's not much of an issue :)
And to test my fix there i compile the git version. Adjust my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use the compiled libs and call the compiled executable directly
That's how i do it. Perhaps not _as_ efficient as possible, but it's the least "painful" way that i know.
So yes, please do make a screencast of it!
I think it would really help KDE and the open source world, if some good guys would create record themselves setting up a testing and development environment, submitting a fix for a bug, etc.
That would be awesome to watch thought it might take a lot of time, especially in the beginning, to get started.
I think some screencasts showing how KDE developers use to fix bugs and to develop would be really useful to new potential contributors that might not well know how to take things to get started despite the good wiki pages describing how to setup a build environment and how to begin development. So, yeah, that would be great if you could show us how you accomplish this kind of tasks!
The video idea is very usefull! I would appreciate it very much!
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