[Panel-devel] Smart plasma icon placement

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 04 July 2007, M. Costa wrote:
> Hello people
>
> Do you remember the google SoC idea about plasma icon placement?
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2007/Ideas#Plasma:_icon_pla
>cement
>
> Daniel Lorych and myself agreed do it, but the plan was delayed until final
> exams were finished. That day has arrived.

huzzah!

> Now we need some way to share and keep in sync the code. I believe a good
> approach is to make a little gui and fake data to test algorithms easily.

agreed; i would suggest the easiest approach is to create a plasma applet and 
just deal with "fake" data...

what's really interesting with plasma is that we will not only be dealing with 
icons, but also with full plasmoids as well... that shouldn't be a problem, 
however, as these can probably be treated as a special class of items. if we 
want to be able to categorize and do some basic introspection as to the 
semantic qualities of a given applet, we could also add such API once we have 
some requirements defined 

> Should be possible to get a kde svn account and a folder in kdeplayground o
> kdenonbeta?

playground/base/plasma is where you can house the code.

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