Initial Dashboard Widgets support

[Celeste Lyn Paul]

Sorry for being a non-dev, but any chance you can link a screenshot? :)

~ C

On Friday 22 February 2008 17:21:16 Andre Magalhaes wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I decided to try and create an applet that was able to load
> Dashboard Widgets.
> Attached there is the very initial version of it, that should be applied
> from playground/base/plasma/applets directory.
>
> Problems I would like to discuss with you:
>
> - Some (read most) dashboard widgets "include" local files:
>   Eg.: file:///System/Library/WidgetResources/button/genericButton.js
>   How should we deal with this. Should we create our own javascript
> code and ship with it,
>   Then we could parse the files and make them load our own version the
> code. - WebView always draws a white background, no matter what.
> - Should we do like the SuperKaramba support (Show the applets in the
> applet browser)?
>   Ps.: Who knows the code knows it's a hack, but if we want the
> applets to appear on the applet
>          browser we need to do it. This would require changes on the
> appletbrowser code.
>   Right now, you will find an applet in the applet browser that when
> running can load dashboard widgets
>   either by dropping files on it or trough the config dialog.
> - How can we propagate the webview events to the applet widget, so for
> eg. dragging would work.
>
> Any ideas, suggestions?
>
> Also I would like to commit this to playground/base/plasma/applets, so
> I could work from there.
>
> BR



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Celeste Lyn Paul
KDE Usability Project & HCI Working Group
usability.kde.org