resources, plasmoids and hacks

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 09 June 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 8, 2011 22:09:31 Marco Martin wrote:
> > a) reorder the boxes around as there seems to be demand for
> > b) a bit more flexible for widgets, compared to the appletstrip (heard
> > some complaints about it as well)
> > c) not having to ship two different types of activity, resource centric
> > OR widget centric
> 
> if the widgets are not related to the activity, i don't think it makes
> sense. otherwise we end up mixing two different kinds of items: those that
> are context/recommendation sensitive and those that aren't, those that
> have the attributes of plasmoids (configuration, manual creation via the
> 'add widgets' ui, etc..) and those that don't.

or they could just all be plasmoids, just needed to have one that contains an 
arbitrary list of resources (remains to be seen how those are created)

> what are the complaints about the appletstrip, exactly?

that is not much flexible, ie all plasmoid forced to have the full containment 
height, that is ok for some not for others.

Cheers,
Marco Martin