I have just finished my talk at Camp KDE, Jamaica about “KDE and Distros” with great partnership of Marcus D. Hanwell (slide is here), I talked about Pardus Technologies and showed people our plasmoid for service-manager which works with our sub-system COMAR.
When great projects come together results comes great !
Also I have a great video while it is working .. All of these written in Python, PyQt4 and of course PyKDE4 ;) You can grab the source from here.
Tags: planet.kde, planet.pardus
Thats just fun!
Nice job.
You might want to add in functionality for starting services at startup.
Cheers
Ben
Wow, you guys at Pardus are *awesome* ! :)
The 2009 release will probably be your best – ever.
Woot! :)
I was just thinking that something like this is missing. At my laptop I only want to run apache while I’m coding for my site. Off course I could do a ‘sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start’ but that’s not something which would attract the Mac / Windows user base (and I’d agree with them). This seams to fill in yet another missing gap. :)
Good work. go on :)
Looks nice from the functionality point of view but the plasmoids are not very usable since you have ambiguous meanings of the buttons. Intuitively I would have said, I need to click on the stop button to stop but it’s the other way round.
It’s a simply fix to remove the ambiguity:
Whenever the widget that is used to represent a state is also used to perform an action, the widget text should represent the state. So the widget, in this case, should reflect the state (on/off, running/not running) not the action (start/stop). Then the action performed by the user is implicit and expected when moving it from one state to another. For example, user changes it from “off” to “on” means “turn it on”.
The KDE HIG is currently not in the best state.
It’s exactly what i told them in irc channels already about the weather plasmoid. I find the buttons confusing, not knowing what state currently is active and what not. Apart from that, nice work mates!
YES!
Very nice.
Now, if there was a pkgmgr interface (either rpm or deb), I’d be in heaven.
Jamboarder: This is actually not the problem. In the above case you would still click on OFF when you want it to be ON, since the position of the button shows the state. This works pretty nicely on the iPhone where you slide the on and off states around but not in this scenario where you just click. So “moving from off to on” is not what is happening here.
Generally, if you had only one button (for whatever reason), it should always show the action as text and not the state, since a button’s text always shows the outcome of its interaction and nothing else.
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