[Panel-devel] question about plasma

[Daniel Bruegmann]

Matt Broadstone wrote:
> On 8/15/06, Daniel Bruegmann <danielbruegmann at gmx.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I read the plasma website. Am I correct to think that plasma will
>> eventually replace kwin, kicker and kdesktop?
>>     
> Only Kicker and KDesktop, theoretically.
>
>   
>> That's what it sounds
>> like, but it doesn't look like it in the svn repository (trunk).
>>     
> Nope, there is no real code in svn, you can look at some stuff Aaron
> checked in a few months ago in trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma and
> code I checked in almost a year ago now in
> branches/work/kde4/playground/base
>
>   
>>> Also, I
>>>       
>> read that Rusin said that there was going to be some dashboard support,
>> but a grep -r dashboard * in kdebase/workspace didn't find anything.
>>
>>     
> Yes dashboard support would be easy to implement, but thats much
> further down the line, we actually need a framework first
>
>   
>> About the Junior Job (wiki) "Improve the semantics of isMainPanel and
>> isMenuBar in the extension manager by making it generic and providing a
>> isSpecialPanel(const QString& panelType) that then queries the panel
>> extension to discover if it is or is not that particular thing":
>> Wouldn't there also have to be a const QWidget* panel parameter? I'm
>> guessing that panelType should be compared to _extensionID of the
>> ExtensionContainer class, and not of panel extension. Please correct me
>> if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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Hi,

 >
 > Nope, there is no real code in svn, you can look at some stuff Aaron
 >

Does this mean the real code is not done yet, or are people just not 
committing their stuff for whatever reason?

Daniel