Plasma alternative

[Duncan]

Thomas Olsen posted on Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:56:33 +0200 as excerpted:

> It's a nice analogy but I'm scared to be caught in the never ending
> discussion of pro/con configurability (think my spelling is wrong). I
> guess I'm an old elephant but I respect the decisions of the developers.
> They give me a lot of space for customizing and scripting and when I'm
> not satisfied with it I can go the C++ way :-) And sometimes I'm just
> lazy and want it to work out-of-the-box so an ambivalent elephant is
> probably the best description :-D

FWIW, I think they are staying reasonably configurable, or at least I 
haven't seen that changing /too/ much.  It's just a big rewrite is all, 
and not everything's functional yet.  And... there are some choices on 
dependencies and the like that I flat don't agree with... but that's a 
rather different level of configurability than the user GUI stuff we're 
talking about here.

The only major disagreement I have with them on the GUI configurability 
at this point, is the way the plasma panel configuration works... and I 
suspect that it'll get either a second config interface or some serious 
changes over time... basically like they already are coming around to on 
the workspace configuration thing -- the zoom interface and having some 
options only available when zoomed out... just got roundly panned by 
nearly everyone -- and they are fixing it, 4.3 is slightly better, and 
4.4 is supposed to be dramatically better, in that regard, as it's not 
going to require zooming out for configuration purposes at all, 
everything's going to be available thru the normal config GUI.  I expect 
they'll eventually change the panel sizing and etc interface as well, 
because it's equally unwieldy as it is. IMO, the only reason it hasn't 
been changed yet is because there were enough other severely out of whack 
things for the reviewers to complain about, that the panel config 
interface didn't even really make it on the list.  But with 4.4, that's 
probably going to be one of the only seriously terrible bits left, so I 
expect more of them to pan it, and when enough of them do, something else 
will be developed to replace it.  (That's assuming there's not already 
changes in the pipeline that I've not seen mention of on KDE-Planet, etc.)

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