Dolphin for Plasma Next?

[Frank Reininghaus]

Hi,

2014-02-18 13:26 GMT+01:00 Jens Reuterberg:
> Right ok, hi! My name is Jens and I'm the project lead for the KDE Visual
> Design Group.

thanks for your message! It's good to see new people getting involved
with KDE, and working hard to make it look better.

> We're currently working ourselves ragged with the upcoming Plasma Next (or
> "Plasma By KDE", never "Plasma 2") and we have run into that age old question.
> So if the layouts are changing how can we get the same spiffy layout and ideas
> to spread to some of the integral applications of the desktop?
>
> I'd love to get into contact with whomever is porject lead or manager to talk
> this over a bit so we can both go back to our respective groups and mull it
> over and decide what to do. :)

I am Dolphin's maintainer, which might be the best approximation to
"project lead or manager".

> (considering its a tad hush-hush right now it might be nice doing it this way
> - plus we are hardly anywhere near completion and tbh it would be nice to get
> a set of objectives to accomplish for Dolphin before going knee-deep into the
> work)
>
> My email is jens [at] ohyran [dot] se or reply here! :D

I prefer to have all discussions about the application on the mailing
list, because everyone can take part in the discussion then, and
results can be looked up easily in the future.

Could you elaborate on what sorts of things you want to discuss? I
understand that your group is working on ideas for the future look of
the KDE/Plasma desktop (whatever the final name will be), including
the applications. However, most of what you can see in Dolphin's UI is
provided by the styles and by widgets from kdelibs (or frameworks, in
the future), and I think that this should not change - consistency
with other KDE applications is very important IMHO. So anything that
you want to change about Dolphin's look would probably apply to other
applications as well, right?

Cheers,
Frank