How to get the Project Dashboard right

[David Nolden]

One thing about plasma: it is simply the wrong tool for this tasks. Other
approaches for re-using plasma for similar things imo failed completely (see
amarok), and ended up emulating a completely normal widgets+tabs interface.

Plasma is optimized for allowing the user to build his own user-interface,
and the only place where this seems appropriate is the desktop.

To me the right tool for this job seems to be a simple qwebview. Create the
layout using html, allow themeing it through css, and if required you can
even embed custom widgets to display whatever stuff you like.

Greetings, David

Am 29.04.2010 15:35 schrieb "Aleix Pol" <aleixpol at kde.org>:

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:20 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> As you will probably...
Hi,
I was talking to some Plasma folks yesterday and I think it would be worth
giving it a try. That way we can get some stuff for free: mainly the
existing plasmoids and theming which is great.

The bad news is that there are a couple of changes required to have it the
way I'd like it. First of all, it's not yet possible to add Plasma::Applet*
instances directly, now it has to go through a different plugin and I
wouldn't like it a lot like that. The good news on that is that they're
willing to fullfill this use case so in the worst case we just would have to
wait.

The other problem is that we need to get Plasma to use our project.kdev4
file instead of some ~/.kde4/share... file. The main reason for that is that
we want that to be versioned so there's a project-wide dashboard version. We
could provide the KConfig instance to plasma so that it writes to the file
we want it to write on or we could try to workaround that by configuring the
Plasma instance ourselves every time we use it.

Another problem would be that we'll have to wait for the Plasma KPart to be
released at sometime next month.

That's it for the moment.
Aleix

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