<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Frank Karlitschek <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karlitschek@kde.org">karlitschek@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 30.07.2008, at 16:27, Daniel Winter wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
<br>
Hi,<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
> first thank you all for your impressive work the last months.<br>
><br>
> After the 4.1 release I read a lot of reviews on differrent english<br>
> and german<br>
> websites. As you propably already knows: Most of them are really<br>
> positive<br>
> about plasma.<br>
><br>
> But I also read a lot of reader comments to the reviews. And was the<br>
> first<br>
> hours after release arround in #kde to answer questions of new kde<br>
> 4(.1)<br>
> users.<br>
><br>
> Most of the questions are plasma releated:<br>
><br>
> 1. A lot of users have problems to figure out all config features.<br>
> (move applets<br>
> seam to be a problem for a lot of users, I even read two<br>
> professional reviews<br>
> where the author was not happy because he couldn't move applets).<br>
><br>
> And some didn't even find a way to resize the panel. lock/unlock is<br>
> also not<br>
> easy to understand if you are not used to it.<br>
><br>
> I know you are aware of this issues and a welcome applet is planed<br>
> which<br>
> explains such things to new users.<br>
><br>
> What about some quick solution for 4.1.1? A short (about 2 minutes)<br>
> video on<br>
> the desktop which shows resizing and moving? Or Konqueror opens a<br>
> local html<br>
> on the first start which some static html page with some screenshots<br>
> with a<br>
> short text which shows moving, resizing, locking unlocking... I<br>
> think that<br>
> could hlep users to find out about that features.<br>
><br>
> 2. GHNS:<br>
><br>
> That is an other very common questions in comment posts to reviews or<br>
> yesterday in #kde.<br>
><br>
> "I tried to install a applet with the "get new applets from internet"<br>
> function. It says installed but I can not find it"<br>
><br>
> I know you are aware of this problem. But this not working downalods<br>
> which are<br>
> saying installed anyway make a bad first impression. It shows all<br>
> this nice<br>
> applets, you try to install them and it just doesn't work.<br>
><br>
> Would it be possible to get in contact with the <a href="http://kde-apps.org" target="_blank">kde-apps.org</a> people<br>
> and work<br>
> togethter with them to remove those non working binary/c++ source<br>
> loading<br>
> applets from the ghns "feed" for install applets?</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div></div>I´m runnng KDE-Apps.org.<br>
The problem is that nearly ever plasmoid on KDE-Apps is a C++<br>
plasmoid. So downloading via GHNS doesn´t work, of course.<br>
<br>
We need stable bindings for scripting languages and a review system<br>
for the plasmoids first.<br>
<br>
I would like to discuss and work on the system at akademy.</blockquote><div>I'll be at Akademy, and I'm very keen to help get the Ruby and C# Plasma bindings working with GHNS as plasmoid packages. I think they are pretty close to being stable and fully working, but need more documentation and examples. And the uploader app needs to be working too.<br>
<br>A .desktop version seems to have been introduced recently and I've no idea what versions script engines or plasma package .desktop files are supposed to have.<br><br>-- Richard<br></div></div><br></div>