[Panel-devel] KDE 4 / superkaramba integration

[Ryan Nickell]

On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 01:48 -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 12:14, Petri Damsten wrote:
> > Instead of supporting Apples dashboard widgets in superkaramba it might be
> > easier to support just QWidgets in desktop (well maybe
> > QPlasma/KoronaWidgets). karamba theme is just a QWidget and Apple dashboard
> > widget could be another one. I think that this would make a more generic
> > interface.
Why can't the resulting applet, regardless of the language it's written,
be a QWidget like existing themes are today in SK?
> 
> the aspect to think about is the developer's interface. the API is first bound 
> to language, and then to implementation.
This means that we need to have parallel API for the supported
languages?  So the same function would show up in Ruby, Python, KJSEmbed
bindings in a theme?  
> 
> if it's "just a QWidget" that's an implementation detail, and certainly we 
> could provide a bridge to that for Apple's Dashboard theming.
> 
> so the primary point is where does the programmer see Plasma/Aurora? that's 
> all that really matters =) from there all implementation details follow.
I see it as a gateway to quickly developed eyecandy and usability.
The developer should have the choice of which language to use and the
Plasma/Aurora core would handle the rest.  That bridge between the core
and language xyz would have to be generice so we can be very extensible.
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