resources, plasmoids and hacks

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday, June 9, 2011 13:13:54 Marco Martin wrote:
> 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)

if they are created differently from "normal" widgets, i'd be suspect as to 
mixing the two concepts too freely. it really is the interaction, not the 
implementation detail of "are they all subcasses of Applet" that matters.

> > 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.

see my reply to sebas; i think those plasmoids, or perhaps the container they 
are in, are then buggy.

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