New contact list mockups

[Francesco Nwokeka]

On Sunday 29 May 2011 14:54:30 Lukas wrote:
> Hi Francesco,
> 
> Just to clarify:
> a) The presence and contacts MUST be a separate plasmoids?
Yes

> b) The it could be a unified plasmoid, but contacts is too much of overhead
> for first version?
No, I want to keep the two things seperate and break down jobs as much as possible.

> Just curious, as if I had to develop such contacts part/plasmoid for web
> application, it to get it done 90%, it would be less than 1-2 days with 300
> lines of code combined of CSS/JavaScript/and some server side scripting,
> all with use of frameworks.
I don't get your question.

> Is developing for plasma more difficult? Does
> telepathy make use of plasma data engines, or data should be fetched from
> daemon directly?
Telepathy doesn't make use of dataengines, but the plasmoids do.

The plasmoids for kde-telepathy are a project of mine for this year's google summer of code. So 
development of these components will be passing through me.

> 
> Cheers,
> Lukas
> 
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> >        I appreciate your work. But as I said, in a previous mail, the
> > 
> > PRESENCE plasmoid will display
> > info related to account presence. The contactlist is to be seen as
> > another seperate plasmoid. We've
> > already got some good ideas for the contact list so please wait to see
> > the first layout before doing
> > extra work on it. I'll definatly consider your mockups and ideas :)
> > 
> > Francesco