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Kay README
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(c) 2005 the Kay authors
0) Introduction:
Kay is a device plugged notifier for KDE. It's composed by a KDEDModule and a
KCModule and listen to the media events.
1) Compilation/Installation:
In order to compile kay you have to have the followings libs installed on your
system:
- kdelibs4
- qt3
You need to have KDE 3.4 in order to use kay, because it uses the media kioslave
of Kevin Ottens.
Further informations on the installation procedure can be found in the INSTALL
file.
2) Usage:
Once kay is installed, do the following things to do to get it working:
Have a automount tool (like usbmount or ivman) and it's all!
3) Troobleshootings:
Q: I have the can't access to object error.
A: The KDED module kayd might not be running. Activate it from KControl.
Q: There is no way to run the Kay service.
A: Verify that you have KDE 3.4.
13 years ago
Kay ChangeLog
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(c) 2005 the Kay authors
VERSION 0.4.0
FEATURES:
* Automatic media plugged listening (thanks to Kevin Ottens for his advices).
* Use media mime type for dialog style.
* Configuration dialog has been enhanced.
* Action selection dialog has been enhanced.
* More categories, now based on the MimeType.
* Use the media URL instead of the file one.
* Use a hook to get and store actions. This will make packaging easier (thanks to Achim Bonhet for his advices).
* Use desktop files instead of xml files to store the actions.
* Actions setted in kay now are also available in the media contextual menu.
* You can now call the action configure dialog from the action dialog.
* Action dialog now do and automatic update if an action is added or removed.
FIXES:
* Better icon handling. You can now use the icon name.
* Many memory leaks fixed.
VERSION 0.3.2
FEATURES:
* Dialog style (USB Device, Audio CD, ...).
* Action showing now depend on style
VERSION 0.3.1
FIXES:
* Unuseful libkay.la no more installed.
* Missing *.moc inclusions added.
VERSION 0.3
FIXES:
* KDEDModule now starts.
* KCModule load the good config file.
* Using good KDE dir to store actions files.
VERSION 0.2
FEATURES:
* Kay is now a KDEDModule.
* Setup is now a KCModule.
VERSION 0.1
FEATURES:
* Notification dialog.
* Configuration system.
* DCOP service.
* XML configuration storage.
* Automatic actions.
13 years ago
Kay ChangeLog
============================
(c) 2005 the Kay authors
VERSION 0.4.0
FEATURES:
* Automatic media plugged listening (thanks to Kevin Ottens for his advices).
* Use media mime type for dialog style.
* Configuration dialog has been enhanced.
* Action selection dialog has been enhanced.
* More categories, now based on the MimeType.
* Use the media URL instead of the file one.
* Use a hook to get and store actions. This will make packaging easier (thanks to Achim Bonhet for his advices).
* Use desktop files instead of xml files to store the actions.
* Actions setted in kay now are also available in the media contextual menu.
* You can now call the action configure dialog from the action dialog.
* Action dialog now do and automatic update if an action is added or removed.
FIXES:
* Better icon handling. You can now use the icon name.
* Many memory leaks fixed.
VERSION 0.3.2
FEATURES:
* Dialog style (USB Device, Audio CD, ...).
* Action showing now depend on style
VERSION 0.3.1
FIXES:
* Unuseful libkay.la no more installed.
* Missing *.moc inclusions added.
VERSION 0.3
FIXES:
* KDEDModule now starts.
* KCModule load the good config file.
* Using good KDE dir to store actions files.
VERSION 0.2
FEATURES:
* Kay is now a KDEDModule.
* Setup is now a KCModule.
VERSION 0.1
FEATURES:
* Notification dialog.
* Configuration system.
* DCOP service.
* XML configuration storage.
* Automatic actions.
mattepiu
12 years ago
an empty disc is inserted? I get "wrong
defined url" if I just call "k3b"
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l1nux
13 years ago
The requested URL /fichiers/devel/kay/kay-0.4.0.tar.gz was not found on this server.
The requested URL /fichiers/debian/kay_0.4.0-1_i386.deb was not found on this server.
Thanks.
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jrfaller
13 years ago
I hope you'll like it.
Regards.
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trueg
13 years ago
If so I would integrate it into K3b to disable it while burning. Otherwise I would just kill it and restart it after the burning finished like I do with the SuSEPlugger.
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jcw
13 years ago
first of all, congrats to your cool addition to KDE! It's badly needed, and I'm already using it daily.
I'd like to mention some ideas though, to IMHO improve usability:
- let the user specify a timeout for showing the dialog, so that it vanishes if it's not clicked during this timeout
- use the standard KDE icon dialog for the choosing of an icon. How am I (a humble user) supposed to know in which hidden directory my krusader icon is buried?
- give the possiblity to use a real path instead of the KDE media:/ stuff, so the user can get size info for his removables. To check this, use krusader and your tool to open your usbstick/anything else. It will open in media:/*** and display that it can't get size info for nonlocal devices. Now go to /media/*** (the exact directory where your device is mounted) and you will get size info. Should probably be implemented in media:/-kioslave, but this problem will probably persist at least until KDE 3.5
- last but not least, a little bug, but I don't know where the exact problem lies: my blank dvd+rws get recognized as media/blankcd
But as said above, a great tool with a great perspective!
Thanks,
Joost
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jrfaller
13 years ago
First of all i have to say that Kay will be integrated into KDE 3.5 under the name of medianotifier so i apologyse but no new version untill that time.
For you features request:
- Timeout is a pretty good idea i'll think about it!
- Using standard icon dialog:done! (moreover you'll see that many enhancement have been made by Kevin Ottens to the the configuration dialog!)
- KDE policy implies now to give a media:/ url when using a media so i don't want to give an other url but i think the problem you quote will shortly been fixed
- For DVD recognization trouble it comes from media kioslave because all Kay do is listening to that slave but i'll see with Kevin what i can do to fix it!
I hope you'll like next version of Kay!
Regards.
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MMax
13 years ago
You can start with design :(
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sunray
13 years ago
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mart
13 years ago
I noticed kay can become a full featured automounter with very few lines of code.
It's sufficient adding also mimetypes for unmounted devices in actionhook.cpp line 317, and if the kded "kded media manager" is on (default in kde 3.4) it will mount the devices when accessed :-)
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mart
13 years ago
www.fosk.it/mart/files/kay.diff
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mart
13 years ago
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jrfaller
13 years ago
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RND
13 years ago
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jrfaller
13 years ago
make -f admin/Makefile.common cvs
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RND
13 years ago
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Kaisermart
13 years ago
ln -s /usr/bin/aclocal /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7
As root of course.
Good bye
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jrfaller
13 years ago
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vide
13 years ago
Way to go!
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pregopresto
13 years ago
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jrfaller
13 years ago
Big program! If everything goes right the 0.4.0 version might be out before the first of july!
Thanks all for the feedback.
PS: if you have ideas for others neats features, post a comment to let me know it ;).
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hugorodrig
13 years ago
Keep it up!
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hugorodrig
13 years ago
Keep it up!
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Kaisermart
13 years ago
Very good app. I like it very much.
I don't know to configure automount for launch other command. I use Suse 9.3. Thanks for all
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jrfaller
13 years ago
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jrfaller
13 years ago
Thanks for your comment!
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