Plasma Chat widget

[David Edmundson]

On Aug 16, 2011 12:09 AM, "George Brooke" <
george+kde.telepathy at george-brooke.co.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 03 August 2011 21:49:00 Lasath Fernando wrote:
> > > This sounds good, what I'd like would be to have a single plasmoid
which
> > > would add an icon (similar to the ones in your plan) for each
> > > conversation which can be removed (say with a close button on the
right
> > > of where you have the pop-out button) when you've finished with it or
> > > pinned into place to behave closer to your plan.
> >
> > I originally intended to have something like that, with the user's
> > favourite contacts or active chats. I wanted to use the task manager
> > or smooth-tasks widget, depending on how reusable their code was.
> > But I decided to simplify things for the moment, and just build a
> > widget that can handle a single chat (for the sake of making it
> > doable). If I manage to pull it off and continue developing, I'll
> > build the rest of it and keep what you said in mind.
> Yes, something with a similar design to smooth-tasks was exactly what I
had in
> mind, however I seem to remember reading somewhere that the code for
smooth-
> tasks is not very maintainable.
>
> From saying that we'd like something similar to the taskmanager or smooth-
> tasks, it occurred to me that rather than having the chat plasmoid as a
> separate entity behaving in a similar way to the main taskmanager it would
be
> nice to have the plasmoid chat more-or-less dock with the taskmanager so
that
> (when focussed) they'd appear in the space where the thumbnail appears for
> ordinary windows. Then if the chat was 'popped out' into the full window
the
> icon for it would still be in the same place but instead of showing the
> plasmoid interface it would control the full window in the usual way.
> I guess however that anything like this would properly be added to
taskmanager
> code (possible a new f.d.o spec so that it can be cross DE) then support
added
> to the chat UIs.
>
> Anyway, sorry for the really long delay to replying, is (the progress so
far
> on) your basic plasmoid available from anywhere public yet? And would you
say
> that its ready for other people to test yet?

No. It's hardly started.

>
> Thanks
>
> GeorgeB
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