Extenders, assembling plasmoids

[Sven Burmeister]

On Wednesday 09 April 2008 23:51:01 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > Yes, there is a button at the top-right "edit" and you have several
> > clocks, world-clock, appointments and weather in one applet and probably
> > more possibilities (edit button).
>
> yeah, so.. that clock is, as per usual in that project, a hardcoded,
> purposebuilt set of hacks to make something neat come together than has no
> extensibility let alone future possibilities.
>
> it looks very nice, and it has a number of tie ins to things like the evo
> data service. now just try adding something else to it, or replacing eds as
> a backend ...
>
> honestly, this has *nothing* in common with extenders. it's the calendar we
> pop up when you click the calender with a few extra entries (e.g. timezones
> with a map, appointments)

It shows one arrangement and as you might have noticed by the comments of the 
others does indeed look like something extenders are meant for. So it's like 
the plasma panel in 4.0.0.

> > Currently it would not be possible to arrange
> > such a thing on such a small space with plasmoids.
>
> bullshit.

Welcome to reality. For users it is not and that is all said, so watch your 
language. Otherwise you may not complain if others pick the same vocabulary 
when talking to you.

Sven