Nitrux Weekly Summary — 28th-31st October 2019
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2 min readNov 2, 2019
Hi, and welcome to this week’s weekly summary. This week’s recap is the fifth overall and the last for October 2019.
MauiKit Development
- Added new components to follow the visuals we want:
actiongroup
,sidebaractions
,toolbuttonmenu
. - Moved away from kirigami.actionbar since they have some messy icon sizing going on there
- Improved a lot the model
pathlist
used in thepathbar
andfilebrowser
millercolumnview
, so paths are notrealoaded
but only the needed ones. - VVave can now play remote sources like from
webdav
. - The file manager tools are now better integrated with
kio
. - Improved
qmake
steps to build and deploy for Android, although Nico from KDE did a fantastic job on allowing the do the same withcmake
. - A lot of code clean up on VVave.
- VVave better albums delegates and now again fetching artwork from online sources.
- Make further usage of URL structures in index and vvave, to identify local from remote content.
- Update Pix to work with the latest changes
- Improvements on apps: not load components unle.ss they are needed
- We will be attending LAkademy in mid-November.
- Filepreviewer can now preview documents like pdf thanks to Okular.
- Add better grid and list item delegates.
- Files are moved or copied with Index include the tags associated with the data.
- Implemented KAccounts listing/adding/removing functionality.
ZNX
- Znx AppImages now include the correct product naming.
- Fix typos in functions.
- Watch out if no arguments are in use.
- Fix typos in the _deploy function — issue #58.
- Cleaner directory layout.
- Fix the wrong boot image location.
- Fix the wrong argument count check.
- Remove function calls. Show the appropriate content for the passed flags.
- Fix typo when calling
remove
. - Prevent URL or file name issues.
Distribution
- Nitrux 1.2.2 is available on the 26th of October.
- Reduce the boot time of Nitrux to an acceptable rate.
Infrastructure
- Organize the contents of our build scripts.
- Working to improve
maui-appimage-generator
to build VVave AppImage.