Replace kimpanel in kdeplasma-addons with a rewrite version

[Weng Xuetian]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Monday, September 19, 2011 22:46:07 Weng Xuetian wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
>> > On Monday, September 19, 2011 20:39:11 Weng Xuetian wrote:
>> >> So I rewrite kimpanel (Use the same dbus protocol), and use dataengine
>> >> for instead of direct dbus access. And I would like to maintain it in
>> >> the future.
>> >
>> > i am very happy to hear this :)
>> >
>> > what i would like to suggest is this: request a new git repository on
>> > git.kde.org and then push your repository into there. the form to request
>> > a
>> > git repository is here:
>> >
>> >        http://sysadmin.kde.org/svnaccount/repo-request.php
>>
>> Ok, I request a repo named kimpanel-rewrite.
>
> perhaps just "kimpanel"
Should I request again or it will be renamed directly, or it doesn't matter?
>
>> > * how well does the javascript version work?
>>
>> Just some simple experiment code.
>> At first I want to make a qml/js version, but I found it's very hard
>> to make it as same as the original version, due to the floating window
>> support in plasma doesn't work well. So finally I start a C++ version.
>
> note that you can combine C++ and QML by writing the Applet in C++ but using
> QML for the UI.
>
Emmm, I didn't think of that.... Though I think there is still some
difficulty by using qml to implement pure ui in this case.
I use Plasma::PaintUtils::drawHalo directly to make the text
background clear, not sure QML can have similar feature.