June 2011 wrap-up

8th of July, high time for June wrap up…

I was away for a little less than two weeks in June, as I attended the Qt Contributor Summit (see report) and a Canonical Sprint.

Gwenview

Most of my time this month was spent on Gwenview, polishing it to be ready for the KDE SC 4.7 release. Here is the list of changes I made:

Black screen fixes

Thumbnails are now automatically refreshed when they are modified from a KIPI plugin or outside Gwenview. Additionally, the user can press F5 in thumbnail mode to force a thumbnail refresh.

In the importer, the “Import all” button is now only enabled if there are documents to import.

The crop tool got reworked: The widget now remains visible when zooming and scrolling The widget adjusts its position when the window is enlarged The crop side handles are always visible even when one zoom to

a point where only part of the crop selection is visible

Other smaller bug fixes…

“Common UI mistakes in KDE applications” series

I didn’t write any new article for my series on common UI mistakes in KDE applications but I created a page to link them all.

I would like to add links to the page from the articles themselves but I need advice on the best way to do this without causing Planet KDE and Planet Ubuntu to repost them. Any idea?

Desktop Summit

I registered for the Desktop Summit, and will hopefully be holding a workshop there, more on this later.

Skanlite

Finally I did some work on Skanlite, which I use quite a lot to scan my receipts.

Removed crosshair cursor from view scrollbars

Added colon for property labels

Moved checkbox labels to the right

Proposed use of KIntNumInput and KDoubleNumInput to replace home-made widgets (not in yet)

I have other ideas for Skanlite. Time will tell if I get some of them done in July (and if Kåre, Skanlite maintainer, accepts them of course)

As usual, if you want to, you are welcome to support me.



