Projects/KNS2

KNewStuff 2

Classes will (mostly) be:

A packager/uploader (Plasmagik)
An Handler (Facility class created to manage files locally)
A download GUI (Like the exixting one)
A package manager (Like SK package manager)
A class used to retrive *all* the information from a single entry (KNS::CompleteEntry)
A model class to allow knewstuff integration into apps (It will contain all the informations availeable with the download dialog)

Unsorted is not needed as there's no other option
No feedback when something is downloaded, the user does not know when it is finished. => kmail-style progress bars
- In CoreEngine::slotInstallationVerification(int result) signalInstallationFinished() and signalInstallationFailed() are emitted but not connected anywhere.
No feedback in the dialog that some items are already present (was done in 3.5 in the app by writing in config stuff entries then KNS picked that and displayed a green tick in the list)
- In KDE 3.5 this code is in void DownloadDialog::install(Entry *e) in downloaddialog.cpp
The display of the list is slow, way slower than in KDE 3.5

Edu progs: KAnagram, KHangMan, KLettres, KStars, Parley, KWordQuiz
Kate
System Settings: used it for background in KDE 3, there's no background module now because plasma came.
Kopete is looking to using it

Merge DXS and GHNS download dialogs. Also check with usability guys.
Add networking capabilities to Plasmagik.
Finish the code for the metadata generation.
The Handler, to locally manage packages.
Write a cache removal strategy, that should be the last bit of the networking stuff.
The CompleteEntry class, used also by the Handler, used to retrive all the availeable informations from an already downloaded package (needs to be written in a more detailed fashion)
Anything else?

KNewStuff2 will store all the files in a specific dir. The layout of this dir, and all the related information can be found here.