Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (348 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, September 01, 2011 01:56:42 AM Adrian 
Schröter wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 1. September 2011, 10:40:20 schrieb 
Markus Slopianka:
> > On Mittwoch 31 August 2011 20:47:54 Roger Luedecke 
wrote:
> > > Looks to me that Mandriva has implemented several 
useful
> > > features and ideas. Alot of what I'm seeing looks like 
some of
> > > the ideas I have had. Lets take a look, and see if we get 
any
> > > good ideas eh?
> >
> > Well, except RocketBar (which is a modification of the 
standard Plasma
> > panel) the new features are just a collection of only 4 new 
Plasma
> > widgets (SimpleWelcome, Divider, StackFolders, and IIRC 
a Task List). If
> > they don't need patches to core parts of Plasma, they 
could be packaged
> > if one is able to find the source codes for them (so far I 
didn't).
> yep, good approach, first package and test them. 
Afterwards decide what
> should be default :)
>
> What I observed in the videos is that in general (for 
Mandriva and also
> SUSE) quite a lot of more fine tuning is needed. For example 
all the
> listed plasma widgets, which are available by default look to 
me like a
> random mess.
>
> Just because some developer liked it, it should not be 
installed by
> default. We should rethink which applets are really use full 
for most
> users and don't install the rest. That would IMHO make the 
desktop look
> way more professional and people get the impression that 
they can actually
> do something usefull with the widgets.
I totally agree. I feel like our current widgets make us look 
sloppy, and the majority of them should not be installed by 
default. I'm pretty sure this will change once the new widget 
creation framework is up.
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