Creative direction of plasma

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 29 May 2008, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > are not designed from a scalability perspective, etc.
>
> Not fully sure what you mean here. In particular in the "etc." part. ;-)

think of all the things we expect from a standard plasma widget from a look, 
feel and interaction perspective. then consider how nearly none of these 
things are realistic with a kpart. we can get close, but close isn't close 
enough ;)

> Actually that's kind of the scary thing about pinheiro's mockup... It
> almost looks like a dolphin with no sidebar and no menubar right now[*].

which says more about needing to slimeline the mockup rather than make it even 
more complex by embedding a kpart.

> [*] Dolphins have a sidebar and a menubar now? You really can't trust those
> extra terrestrial creatures which smile all the time.

ha... =)

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