Plasma 5 support

[PVince81]

The plasmoid doesn't popup and it says QtQuick 1.1 not installed.
I guess it's because Plasma 5.4.2 might only support QtQuick 2 / QML 2 or something.

If I understand well it might not be possible to have it work from the same codebase, so it is likely that this will need a new repository ?

[silverhook]

Any news or plans on porting Tomatoid to Plasma 5?

[arthurtaborda]

Unfortunately I don't have plans to port it to Plasma 5. I have tried many times before but the lack of support and documentation from the KDE community prevented me from doing it.

[silverhook]

That’s very unfortunate. I really liked your plasmoid.

I’ve asked on KDE’s main IRC channel and was told that porting from QML1 to QML2 shouldn’t be too difficult:
https://forum.qt.io/topic/33601/qtquick1-0-vs-qtquick2-0

If you’re not planning to continue on Tomatoid, would you be willing to transfer maintainership to someone else?

In any case, thank you for a great plasmoid. As with most good things, you only notice it when it’s gone.

[arthurtaborda]

thank you @silverhook
I really liked it too, and used every day. Unfortunately the plasma documentation is very poor and does not encourages developers.

However I am planning to do a simple desktop app with support to todo.txt and pomodoro as well. Do you think that would be useful to you?

[silverhook]

I don’t use todo.txt, but am intrigued by the the pomodoro function.

Pomodoro is just a part of my workflow, to help with longer, tedious tasks. For dumping ideas and organising tasks I use GTD (through Zanshin) and for surviving the week, I use a physical Kanban board.

[PVince81]

@arthurtaborda not sure how far you managed to get last time. I did another attempt today and managed to have something be rendered.

See #21

I already discovered some issues with plasmoidviewer.writeConfig not being available any more. Haven't found any docs about this, so the alternative would be to switch to DB: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-localstorage-qmlmodule.html

[PVince81]

I went a bit further and managed to fix the layout and also to make the tasks be stored in the local database (sqlite?) as per http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-localstorage-qmlmodule.html.

The PR is almost usable... But still looks rather broken.

[arthurtaborda]

thank you. I left a comment at that thread