playground applets

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> holy crap do we have a lot of applets in playground.
>
> i started sorting and sifting through them, and while i'm not nearly done i
> suppose it's at least a start. here's my results so far, comments welcome:
>
> candidates for base 4.2
> =============
> life
> activitybar - neat concept; has layout issue on planar
should be fixed, there should really be something in Applet that deals with 
layout minimumsizes, but really don't know how to do, since layouts don't 
signal on items inserted/removed or size hint changed :(

it also has a little fitts law problem when in the panel, maybe it wouldn't be 
too pretty but i think the tabbar widget should have some function to 
enable/disable its background and margins

anyways, i'll move it in kde-review
> systray-refactor - needs the plasmoid protocol finished out, but generally
> there. (notifications?)
> kuiserver - or should this also be added to the systemtray?
seems a neat idea, so it would also be possible to put some code to not make 
uiserver and notifications overlap

oh, and speaking of refactors, what about tasks? i have a patch on rb that 
implements the popup menu when clicked on a group, after that some crashes 
should be ironed out and then i think it's not worse than the current one...

Cheers,
Marco MArtin
>
> candidates for addons 4.2
> =============
> bball  - works; cute
>
> priorities for 4.2
> ==========
> keyboardLeds - a MUST HAVE. however, needs proper art, cover all the keys,
> and not polling but use the x11 a11y stuff. see:
>
> http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdeaccessibility/kbstateapplet/kbsta
>te.cpp?view=markup
>
> working
> =====
> cia.vc - working; usefulness? summary stats? scroll area? hum.
>
> needs more work
> ===========
> train-clock -  sizing oddnesses (see difference between clock size and the
> standard background)
> commandwatch - should use exec dataengine; should use a scrolling text
> area; wrong PluginInfo-Name style
> contacts  - should require config on 0 contacts; contacts sould be
> clickable; scrollable area for items; in panel, a paged mode?
> eyes - what would life be without eyes? ;) needs oxygenation though; too
> old school as it is
> konsolator - really nice idea, tons of repaint issues
>
> broken
> ====
> debugapplet - really cool idea; needs kdelibs patches commited, lots of
> problems in the applet itself
>
> remove?
> ======
> groupphoto
> java
> samplegl
> samplegl2
> desktop
> extendified_notify - once we've got the systray-refactor down
> fortune-teller - nice idea, but not ported from the 4.0 API
> knet - not ported from the 4.0 API for starters
> rot13 - not ported from the 4.0 API for starters
> qedje - we have the script engine now