battery shrinking problem in battery plasmoid

[matthias sweertvaegher]

2009/2/3 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:
> On Monday 02 February 2009, matthias sweertvaegher wrote:
>> btw, can somebody explain what's the deal with applets? I thought they
>> were called plasmoids today and that the word applet was forbidden now
>> ;) but in the sourcetree there are all kinds of references to applet.
>
> there are two places "applet" appears:
>
> in the source code tree (e.g. plasma/applets/battery) and that should probably
> be changed to plasmoids. the name "plasmoid" came after applets when i began
> to realize that we'd end up with non-plasma widgets available to users. so
> this is a historical relic.
>
> the Applet class in the source tree. in name, this mimics the Applet class
> from kicker. it is now the "meta-concept" for all widgets: regardless of
> whether it is a plasmoid, a google gadget, edje, etc they are all, to the
> internal Plasma code, Applets.
>
> as for what a "Plasmoid" is: Plasmoids are native Plasma widgets that use the
> libplasma API.

thanks for the clarification, Aaron! I see in the meantime you
dedicated a blog post to this :) It's a bit funny that although your
description in this mail being much more concise, still delivers more
information to me, heheh. different audiences I guess

> p.s. welcome to KDE and Plasma dev :)

thanks!

next on my list is the unlock screen bug. let me see.. yes, it's
known! as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=178002
but seems kinda solved. I'll have to find a better bug I guess :)

cu around guys and have fun there in Portugal!

matthias