[Panel-devel] Tech Notes

[Aaron J. Seigo]

CC'ing panel-devel to keep everyone in the loop...

On Monday 28 August 2006 14:31, Baghira wrote:
> Am Montag, 28. August 2006 18:03 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
> > having it as a standalone app will only make its footprint and start up
> > time slower.
>
> worse, i guess it could be a nice idea to provide some space to allow users
> to plug plasmoids into (like a location bar), that'll come up and down with
> the launcher - so this wasn't a great idea anyway.

matt noted that we should probably provide a plasma kpart at some point so one 
can load a plasma graphicsview that one can throw plasmoids into ... so this 
should be eventually possible even with stand alone apps. so i wouldn't worry 
about losing flexibility with one approach or the other, just not to worry 
too much about making it standalone right yet.

> > the ability to highlight an application in the menu on demand is
> > something that was added to kicker. the use case is when an application
> > is installed, then the menu can open up to where it now is in the menu to
> > help the user find it again.
>
> as mentioned, i don't like hierarchical menus ;)

i prefer search and context myself, but some hierarchy is unavoidable.

> still, there could be some advantage in ipc (we could provide a common
> interface for apps that wanna launch other apps and handle the "this app is
> missing" case or "suggest this app in addition" actions)

yes... we can gather these use cases together as they come.

> > is the point to try and avoid menu spam? seems like a lot of effort and
> > infrastructure, so the gain should be commensurate...
>
> keyword spam (invalid keywords - this implies malicious (non)users that
> wanna ratten the community)
> i don't see this as a serious problem (there's no  real commercial
> advantage in spamming the system) - just troll prevention (i'm paranoid ;)

heh.. fair enough =) let's cross this bridge when we come to it, though

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