[Panel-devel] Porting KMixPanelApplet (Was: Re: Javascript Plasmoids)

Christian Esken esken at kde.org
Wed Nov 21 22:19:31 CET 2007


Am Mittwoch, 21. November 2007 schrieb James Smith:
> Why, again, would you write a special applet to do volume changes when you can 
> just write, say the KMIX .desktop entry (ie any launcher) to be able to 
> perform this functionality to begin with? Expanding .desktop entries with the 
> needed Kross code is much easier to write and does the user a lot better as 
> far as UI design goes as the mousewheel can be used to change volume and 
> panel space is not doubled up in the form of duplicated launchers, applets 
> and tasktray items.

Because I don't know how to do that, and what the reslut would be. 

> Why, again?

Actually I did not understand a single word of what you wrote. "Expand desktop entries with Kross code" - Huh?!? Sounds scary and very complicated.

  Christian


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