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
On Thursday, September 01, 2011 01:56:42 AM Adrian Schröter wrote: 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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org