How many Meta-Applets?

[N Randolph]

Oh, ha ha, you have actually answered my question. The ideas page mentioned
consulting you when considering the number of meta-applets, so I was just
checking if there was anything related to that that the developers already
in mind. It looks like there isn't...

On a very different topic, would anyone know of a means of using amaroK on
Xubuntu? It looks like if I were to install the KDE libraries, then I might
as well install a distribution that would work with amaroK..... all things
considered. I wouldn't be surprised, though, if I had to go one of those
routes.

Thanks

-Nelson


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:

> On 23 Mar 2009, at 06:23, N Randolph wrote:
>
> > Hello, mentors and all.
> >
> > The developers of Amarok have already acknowledged that meta-applets
> > need to be implimented rather then having many different applets
> > everywhere taking up extra memory and looking cluttered.  I agree
> > that  it seems unnecessary to have so many different objects running
> > simultaneously ie. for lyrics separately from albums. Breezing over
> > the current code there are separte ones for albums, lyrics,
> > playlistinfo, wikipedia, currenttrack, mediadecives and serviceinfo.
> > By combining programs for different applets in a way that they fit
> > together puzzle-piece-like (in new programs, of course), I hope to
> > develop meta-applets for many of the applets that are compatable.
> > With that, what are the earnest guidelines that I need to consider,
> > such as the number of meta-applets to create?
>
>
> I'm unclear exactly what you are asking here. Are you just interested
> in some Amarok development? If so, you should come join us in #amarok
> on irc (freenode). you can find me there (nick is lfranchi) and if you
> have any contextview related questions i'm the person to ask.
>
> i'm also not sure there needs to be an answer for your question---
> asking how many applets is like asking "how many firefox plugins there
> should be"---as many as people actually write. right now off the top
> of my head i would think no more than 2 or 3 for the number of data-
> engines that we have already. but of course many more can always be
> written to grab new data sources.
>
> leo
>
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