[ghns] KNewStuff2

[Frederik Gladhorn]

Hi all, hi Josef
apart from wishing you all a happy new year, I'd like to address a few things 
in kns2.
KDE 4.0.0 is out, and we have a mostly working ghns implementation.
Thanks especially to Jeremy.

A few things came up during the last minute fixes that were not possible to be 
tackled immediately or more on the server side and thus not so urgent for 
4.0.0.

The .knsrc files which contain config options to be set for ghns in KDE.
One option is the compression. We discussed on irc and it would be nice to be 
able to set the compression rather per file. In my use case for example 
(vocabulary files) I want to be compatible with the kde3 files. I want to use 
the same feed as KVocTrain for that purpose. No need to duplicate the work 
really. KVocTrain only uses not compressed files.
But file size and the possibility to include sound/image files for Parley 
makes compression a necessity for the KDE4 files.
So either compression is set per file (in the .meta files) or we check for the 
mime type and decompress if it's compressed. Right now the config setting is 
respected very strictly - if set to uncompress, only compressed files are 
accepted and vice versa.
Thoughts on that appreciated.

For Kalzium it would be great if the sever could split the feeds included in 
the provider file into categories. This use case of ghns is a little 
different, as molecule files probably won't need much in the sense of rating 
etc but rather a certain molecule is wanted. So I know I want an alcohol (who 
wouldn't) I want to choose the category and select the one I want.
That's probably to be discussed with Carsten in detail.

The precommit hook on data.kstuff.org is rather restrictive - it requires a 
strict order of the meta data tags. maybe that could be loosened a bit. 
Carsten also just hit that one (Josef, we discussed this on irc, when setting 
up Marble).

The only trigger for an update is when the date in the .meta file is changed. 
It would probably be more intuitive to use (and maybe easier?) to simply 
update after any change to the .meta file or even file itself.

Greetings,
Frederik

-- 
Parley - The Vocabulary Trainer
http://edu.kde.org/parley/

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