Re: Qt contributions from KDE article

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Jos Poortvliet
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 December 2013 09:34:10 Carl wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 06:21:25 PM Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 17 December 2013 10:26:20 Carl wrote:
>> > > On 2013-12-14 10:19, Jos Poortvliet wrote:
>> > > > Hi all,
>> > > >
>> > > > We've been working on a 'Qt contributions by KDE" article to follow
>> > > > the Qt
>> > > > 5.2 release. We're a bit late so we should really try and publish
>> > > > this on
>> > > > Monday.
>> > > >
>> > > > A little review would be greatly appreciated!
>> > > >
>> > > > Get it here:
>> > > > https://notes.kde.org/p/Platform5DotStoryForQt52
>> > > >
>> > > > Hugs,
>> > > > Jos
>> > >
>> > > Thanks Jos. Nice story.
>> > >
>> > > First round done. Might be good for someone to look this over and make
>> > > sure that it's still accurate.
>> >
>> > Tnx.
>> >
>> > > Please don't use double spaces. Between sentences their use is
>> > > understandable as a throwback to manual typewriter days. Within
>> > > sentences, they are just a nuisance.
>> >
>> > I HATE double spaces, between sentences and anywhere else. It's etherpad
>> > which has a tendency to insert them... Just ignore, in the final article
>> > I
>> > believe I used a search-and-replace to get rid of them :D
>> >
>> > At least I hope I didn't forget... Did I?
>>
>> I don't know where they came from...I just noticed one instance of double
>> spaces and then searched for them (in etherpad, which doesn't have
>> search-and- replace that I've found). Good to know that etherpad might be
>> the culprit. However, the double spaces were not spread across the entire
>> document; there were certain sections that had a lot, and others with
>> none.
>
> Those are sections which have been copy-pasted. Somehow it happens when you
> do that...
>
>> BTW, For whatever reason, etherpad is almost unusable for me in Chrome.
>
> Hmmm, mostly using FF here as Chromium eats too much ram...
>
>> > > Questions...
>> > > The second sentence of the following <li> item doesn't make sense.
>> > > [The Qt shortcut system was edited by David Edmundson so that shortcuts
>> > > are now fetched from the underlying platform. As a result, all Qt
>> > > applications will now follow the user-configured shortcuts from within
>> > > KDE.]
>> > > What about Qt applications that are not related to KDE?
>> > >
>> > > Carl
>>
>> Martin Klapetek answered that this accurate. It still seems awkward to my
>> technically-unenlightened thinking.
>>
>> What that sentence says to me is this...
>> If you have a Qt application running on your Blackberry, it will follow the
>> user-defined shortcuts from KDE. I doubt that.
>
> Aaah, I get it.
>
>> I don't know what the second sentence in that item is trying to
>> communicate... The Qt shortcut system is a contribution from KDE.
>> There are KDE-designated libraries that all Qt applications draw from.
>>
>> Is this more accurate if the second sentence is eliminated? And the first
>> reads:
>> The Qt shortcut system was edited by David Edmundson so that now user-
>> configured shortcuts are fetched from the underlying platform.
>
> That might be too generic - but this is something David should answer.
>
What was written in the final dot article is right and explains it very well.

Many thanks to whoever did that.

David

>> Carl
>
>
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