<p>Hello!<br></p><p>First I'd like to thank the whole KDE community for their gorgeous work :-) .. am currently running trunk compiled from source ... and it absolutely rocks :-)</p><p>I've been playing with the idea on taking part in the community for quite some time but until now I was much too busy...</p>
<p>So.. now my problem: Documentation is a bit suboptimal .. well.. who want's to write docu ^^ ... so I'm a bit lost on where to start ...</p><p><br></p><p>I'll try to explain what I'd like to do and I'd really appreciate to hear your opinion:</p>
<p>1.) Counter plasmoid for bigger (special) events like Christmas, Easter, New year, ... (counting down -- configurable from seconds to days) -- according to the event the artwork should change</p><p>--> so not really related to appointments</p>
<p>2.) ability to specify own dates with own pictures (preferred SVG)... (e.g: holiday trip to Paris)</p><p>3.) birthdays, ....</p><p>4.) possibility to show more than one event at a time (when placed on the desktop), (e.g.: 5 days until birthday of XXX, 13 days until Christmas)</p>
<p>5.) on the panel it should just show an icon (e.g. easter eggs) with the text (e.g.: 4 days left)</p><p><br></p><p>If it's not understandable I'll try to create a mockup... but ..well.. my artists skills are way below non existent ^^</p>
<p><br></p><p>Design decisions:</p><p>1.) Would an extender be preferred and a good choice? What I think sounds nice may be docking one event-counter to the clock. Although I don't know if an extender can be iconified for the panel.</p>
<p>2.) As mentioned before the plasmoid should work in panels and on the desktop itself... maybe it would be nice that the bigger the panel grows the more information are shown.</p><p>3.) another "problem" are the time zones -- different time zones/countries -- different dates -- think I'll have to find a solution myself.. don't expect anything of use to be in KDE for such a usecase ^^</p>
<p>4.) Would themes be of any use? maybe for the basic events like Christmas, easter, ....</p><p>5.) I think a dataengine would be the right way on separating the data from the view?</p><p>6.) and lastly.. would anyone be willing to help me with the artwork when I reach the point where I'd need it?</p>
<p><br></p><p> If it's of any interest for you I'd like to get this included in 4.3 extragear or something like that when I get it ready in time (which is the reason why I'll try starting it now ^^) ... You may wonder if I have any experience yet ... not KDE specific ... but I know Qt pretty well and I also have some experience in other languages (Java, C++, PHP, ...) so I think it should be manageable :-)</p>
<p>So far I've accomplished to compile and run a mixture of the sample plasmoid from techbase and the digital clock from svn ^^.</p><p><br></p><p>I'm really looking forward on getting some feedback from you and I wish you good luck in polishing and ironing out the last bugs for the 4.2 release :-)</p>
<p><br></p><p>Best regards</p><p>Bernhard Friedreich</p>