[Panel-devel] SuperKaramba plans

[Vinay Khaitan]

Dear friends,

Let me have some comments about rumours.

> Plasma is the interactive desktop that goes above and beyond what SuperKaramba
> can do.  From what I understand, it will be composed of kparts and a
> "scripting glue" from one of the language bindings.  There will be some way
> for people to define their workspace layouts that others can also use simply
> by loading the config.
>
Idea looks nice, but where is it? Who is doing it, who is managing it,
if not SK devs?
Looks like too much things are happening outside SK about SK without
the knowledge of SK devs.

> Current status.
>
> SuperKaramba is in 3.5.0.  It was ported to Qt4 and is in a bit of
> reorganization in /trunk/KDE/kdeutils/superkaramba.  My understanding is that
> Plasma will not be using any of the SK code, but instead expanding on SK's
> ideas and possibilities.  Plasma  plaslets, plasmoids or themes (whatever
> they end up being called) won't be written the same as how SK themes are
> currently written.  If that's the case, I would like to have SuperKaramba
> in /trunk basically become a Qt4 ported version of SK that people can run if
> they choose to not run Plasma themes, or would like to just keep running
> their favorite SK themes in KDE4.

Idea is nice, and I also didn't like the current decoupled SK from
desktop. it should be tightly integrated with it. But then, God knows
from where the ideas are flowing.


> With the above mentioned goal, that means at some point SK development will
> discontinue.  That will probably occur when some efficiencies get worked out,
> which will be over the next month or so.  Other than bug fixes for 3.5.0,
> there won't be much to be done, except maybe change gears to work on Plasma.
> This brings me to what areas we should be looking into as far as functionality
> needing implemented and where in libs/base we should be scouring around.
> What will be handling language bindings?
Language bindings of what ? If we dont know that our SK is going to be
in what form, then thinking about bindings in SK is too early.
The point is that, if there has been any serious thought about SK
direction, it should be informed on the list. Plasma devs should not
expect us to use telepathy.

Vinay Khaitan

ps:- apology, if anyone didn't like the mail.