Adding widgets to panel?

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Fri Sep 9 23:32:17 UTC 2011


Hi,
I'd like to raise the question (again?) if it might make sense to allow users 
to add widgets to the panel. 
The disadvantage would of course be that we would have less control over it 
and add a level of complexity to the UI. But I'm not suggesting to make it 
freely configurable like in Plasma Desktop. That probably is not necessary. 
But it might be useful in some cases to have at least one designated area of 
the panel where widgets can be added. For example a user wants to constantly 
monitor some aspect(s) of the system. She could of course add a monitor 
plasmoid to every activity she uses, but that isn't such a good idea (since 
contour's concept is to have many context-specific activities-right?). Or some 
users might want to have a power-off-button on the panel or whatever.
So we might offer users a place on the panel to put additional widgets in (and 
remove them from it), but not change the default widgets.

What do you think?

Regards,
Thomas


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