Re: [jokosher-devel] [PATCH] partial fix for Bug #85938 by Tobias Langenbucher

[Laszlo Pandy <laszlok2 gmail com>]

Christopher Brown wrote:
> Hello Tom,
>
> On 06/09/07, *Tom Halligan* <tom halligan gmail com 
> <mailto:tom halligan gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello! I've been lurking a while, but thought I should comment on this.
>
>     I have also been working slowly on this bug, but haven't had as much
>     time to work on it as I thought I would. I have the following
>     working with varying degrees of success:
>     1) Copying a selection of event(s): Works pretty much flawlessly.
>     2) Cutting a selection of event(s): Works, but has a few bugs which
>     make it barely usable.
>     3) Delete a seection of event(s): Works fine, as far as I can tell.
>
>     The main issues are to do with copying. All of the above work from
>     both the right-click context menu, and the Edit menu which is
>     implemented in JokosherApp.py.
>
>     To get them working I've needed to create a new Clipboard class (
>     Clipboard.py), because it will allow better clipboard management,
>     and makes actually using the clipboard a little easier.
>
>     The real issue is that the code for manipulating events is
>     implemented multiple times - when really both the edit menu and the
>     context menu should just call the same methods, for usability and
>     intuitiveness' sake. This is more or less what much of the time has
>     been spent on, trying to organise the various implementations to at
>     least resemble each other.
>
>     Like I said - much of what I've done so far 'works', but is pretty
>     buggy in its current state. I'll be glad to send my patch to you so
>     you can see what I've done - it just isn't particularly usable in
>     its current state.
>
>
> I'd be inclined to stick the patch up for people to have a look at it 
> somewhere. If you don't have hosting then just mail it or attach it in 
> launchpad and one of the lead devs will no doubt take a look at it and 
> comment on it. Don't be shy though, most folks don't bite!
>
> Cheers
> Chris
>
> BTW, is it just me or has everyone else got a butt-load of emails just 
> land in their inbox?

Yeah I got about 10. Some were ones I'd seen before, dated a long time 
ago. Others were dates march of this year, but I don't think I'd ever 
seen them before. Weird.

Laszlo