On Jan 10, 2008 6:36 PM, Jeff Mitchell <<a href="mailto:kde-dev@emailgoeshere.com">kde-dev@emailgoeshere.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey guys--<br><br>I'm putting together a talk for the KDE4 Release Event and I need a bit of<br>information. The first bit is probably mostly (all) from Leo, the second I'm<br>not sure (but maybe Dan?)<br><br>1) How did we enhance Plasma while integrating it into Amarok? Details (and
<br>their significance) are appreciated.</blockquote><div><br>Sorry for the late respose... i'm visiting friends in palo alto and i don't have a laptop....<br><br>anyway, the relationship between plasma and amarok has been beneficial, in my opinion, for both sides. by being the first app that actually used libplasma as a library, we were able to expose the parts of plasma that needed to be separated in order to allow it to be used in a 3rd party app.
<br><br>when i think back to the first initial weeks of plasma integration, i remember having to struggle (and write hacks) to get a around a lot of plasma-specific things. then i remember submitting the patches to plasma, asiego summarily rejecting them (rightfully) as they were just temporary hacks, and then solving the problem with a general design solution.
<br><br>so i dont know exactly how much we "enhanced" plasma, as most of our developments are not directly plasma related but more plasma-implementation related. i think the biggest contribution is just underlining the important of making it app-neutral throughout the development process, which in turn made it much easier to have the very elegant and neat framework that currently exists. imagine trying to bolt on cleanliness and app-independence once
4.0 had been released and the API stabilized. <br><br>leo<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>2) Ditto for Phonon.<br>
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