applets descriptions

[Gerhard Gappmeier]

Hi

Il Wednesday 03 September 2008 17:53:03 Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto:
>> widget is becoming a common term for these little plugin type things; we
>> use the term in plasma because we support so many different types of them
>> that "applet", which is really technicaly jargon, doesn't apply.
>>     
>
> So we must kill in every user string "applet" word (mixing both applet and 
> widgetsisn't a good idea)...
> oh, anyway, having on descriptions the word "widget" usually doesn't make 
> sense: the add window has got already the word widget on it, so they are 
> obviously widgets...
>
>   
I was also irritated by these words.

I thought Plasma widgets are called "plasmoids".

Ther term "Widget" is used by a lot of Qt stuff.
An artificial word of Window and Gadget. Also Apple calls them Widgets.
When I hear "applet" I think of JAVA applets and that's not what we want.
But it is often used also for widgets.

Apple calls them Widgets.
Google calls them Gadgets.
Don't know how MS calls them.

At the end I don't care how we call it. But I agree we need one single name.
Widget,Gadget: Have the advantage that they are already very common.
Plasmoid: Has the advantage that it's clear that it is a Plasma gadget.

Davide Bettio schrieb:
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> Davide Bettio.
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