Plasma Chat widget

[Martin Klapetek]

On Aug 1, 2011 10:42 AM, "Lasath Fernando" <kde at lasath.org> wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> Since replacing KNotify messages for incoming chats was put on hold
> till after the whole desktop summit thing, I'd like to get back to the
> original idea I wanted to make.
>
> Since I quite like chatting with people while I work, I find it
> obtrusive/annoying to have to switch to a separate window and then
> switch back to my work.
> I noticed however that gmail and facebook have tackled this problem
> quite well, so I kind of borrowed a solution from them.
>
> My proposal is this :
> A plasma widget that sits in a panel (One per contact, users can
> choose who they want) that pops up when clicked.
>
> Here is a mockup for the UI
>
https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1C3gCj8EuHgimdmAzqp4I-q7yWngYjac0Y2JV0zjNyfc/edit?hl=en_GB
> I modelled it a bit like the QuickAccess plasmoid. Would be nice if I
> could find it's source code as well.

I was the maintainer for some time, you can get the code somewhere from
launchpad (look at kde-apps.org, you can contact the dev there) or my github
repo github.com/mck182 but that's probably outdated a bit :)

--
Marty K.

>
> Now, about the Dataengine or QML Plugin it's going to use, how exactly
> do I go about building that?
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Lasath
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