[Panel-devel] KDE4

[Matt Broadstone]

I've been biting my lip on this for a week or so now, but I have
finally gotten to the point of asking about the purpose for bindings
in the future of this progress. It's almost as if people have
forgotten how slow Kicker used to be. All the most recent work done on
Kicker has basically been to it more efficient, faster. Why exactly do
we need to add support for these scripting languages to add
functionality to Kicker? What exactly can't be done in C++ that python
allows? or does it just allow more ideas that sort of work well? I
personally used to use gDesklets in gnome and I thought it was a
pretty bad, it used a whole lot of my memory up (which python ALWAYS
seems to do in intensive tasks). I know this probably seems like a
heavy hitting comment against SK, but I'm almost at the point where I
think SuperKaramba stuff should be used for mockup's, and the really
useful widgets should be fully brought in as C++ applets?

KDE is already so bloated, especially with it's own single language,
why do we need to add more languages? Why do we need to add more
bloat?

On 6/21/05, Paul Giannaros <ceruleanblaze at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Liquid Weather is probably the most downloaded/used SuperKaramba theme
> > > out there, and Matt is awesome about working with us on SuperKaramba
> > > developments.
> >
> > ok. let's target that one then. it's also a great candidate for testing the
> > different form factors: icon on the panel with an extender, full applet on
> > the desktop.
> 
> As well as bindings, as it's a pretty much fully Python deal.
> Bindings is what i'm most interested in. Any thoughts been put forward
> as to how to handle them? Direct, thin bindings wrapping libplasma for
> each language? A more abstract method (maybe parsing of header files
> and providing plugins with the necessary data to each create the
> bindings or something of the sort) for auto-generation?
> 
> Cerulean
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