<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 10:17 PM, Alexander Dymo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexander.dymo@gmail.com">alexander.dymo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> HTML is simply the<br>
> wrong tool here for a dashboard, it takes much more work to do the same<br>
> with HTML that you can do with plasma.<br>
</div>I think html+javascript approach is much easier actually (and huge amount of<br>
people already does floating configurable widgets. heck, I can do a movable<br>
widget in under 1 minute:)).<br>
<br>
So, if we compare that to plasma which crashes, takes tons of memory and never<br>
works right... I'd say - go for a simplest thing that works.<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Saying plasma just crashes and never work is out of place, it's being used in amarok and desktop and nobody is complaining about it, actually amarok people they're quite happy about it.<br>
<br>Easily creating floating entities is not an issue, I can create a floating widget in a QGV in 1 minute to, with plasma also and probably with QPainter too. The thing is that we need some platform that:<br>* is configurable<br>
* is layouted<br>* lets our plugins to put as many things we want<br>* Makes it easy to create new items<br>* Makes it easy for these items to be flexible<br>* Makes it easy to modify and put new data flexibly<br><br>One good thing I really like about plasma is that it lets us add items that doesn't come from a plugin.<br>
<br>For example:<br><div style="text-align: left;">we can have the user to add rss and he adds the rss plasmoid for the project and we will get that for free and without adding a kdevelop rss plugin which would be weird and the same with anything else. Yes, I know we don't want clocks on the dashboard but I like that we can also put stuff that doesn't depend on kdevelop but just to show. Webview applet is a good example too.<br>
<br>(according to the plasma+kdepim guy these plasmoids will be moved to kdelibs in the near future)<br><br>Note: if I'm taking all that time discussing about that is because I wouldn't really like to decide to do our-thing (tm) and end up by finding all the problems when it's done. It's not like I have any special interest on using Plasma but I want to have something that fits our needs now and in the future for most users.<br>
<br>Hope that helps,<br>Aleix<br></div>