RFC: widget-based welcome page

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I want to propose the removal of the Qt Quick based welcome page.
>
> Pro:
>
> - whenever it shows up it feels out of place
OTOH, it's good that it does. It indicates that it's not a normal view
and that things of different nature happen there.

There's 2 factors there:
- the usage of PlasmaComponents, which it was on my todo list to move
to QQC (I can float it if it's really bothering you).
- The huge green background. There we should just ask the VDG to do
something instead of letting me use colors. :D

> - there is a very noticeable lag and also bad drawing performance for me on my
> laptop with the welcome page. I btw. see the same in KMail - might easily be
> one of many QtQuickWidget bugs/limitations
Could be, although it looks acceptable here.

> - the content we show currently could easily be shown with simple widgets
that's not a Pro. xD

>
> Con:
>
> - removing it also severely limits what we could potentially do in a per-
> project dashboard. But we don't have a working dashboard yet, so imo this is
> something we could tackle in the future then
>
> What do you others think?

Aleix