[Panel-devel] applets and plasmoids

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 24 May 2007, Wade Olson wrote:
> The only point of clarification would be if in practice one plasmoid
> can/should contain multiple applets?  I'm guessing a 1-to-1
> relationship.

i've contemplated this as well .. it's tempting to (over-)engineer it so that 
you can ship a whole bunch of applets in a single plasmoid. and i can even 
dream up use cases for it, though i keep coming back to the thought that it 
would be easier to, if needed, define a container package format.

we're probably going to need this anyways for sharing layouts between 
computers / people .. e.g. i want to be able to IM my desktop layout to a 
friend, or email a layout to the office from home .. this opens the 
possibility of a layout containing a plasmoid that the recipient system 
doesn't have installed.

as ruphy pointed out on irc, the easiest thing to do would be to simply 
package the plasmoids with the layout. which implies a container format of 
some sort. which may in turn also be a plasmagik package, but one that 
contains multiple plasmoids + a layout config.

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