The Contact List Applet

[Martin Klapetek]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:55 PM, David Edmundson <
> david at davidedmundson.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>
>> So, brainstorming:
>
>
>>  - If it's in a vertical panel that's wide enough should it show the
>> list properly?
>>
> That's easy enough to do, when you have the plasma applet implementation
> there you'll figure it out, i'd say.
>

It didn't work with 4.9, there was some stuff missing in plasma for qml
applets to stretch across the height, needs checking in 4.10.


> Also it would be good to find out more imaginative ways to display
> contacts. For example having the name _and_ the photo [1] can be redundant,
> so somebody could try different things. In one of the examples for KPeople
> that I made, I implemented the contact list in a grid (sweetpeople) where
> the name would only be available on hover, since you can already recognize
> someone by their picture. What I mean with that is that there's space for
> improvement and we should try to go a bit past the "same old".
>

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301354


> Maybe...
> Or not...
> But it should be fun.
> And we need KPeople to make it right. :/
>

The contact list with kpeople is being packaged now into ppa for testing.
We still need reliable feeder (almost there) in the first place. Someday I
also need to find some time and look into the qml bindings.

-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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