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
> systray-refactor - needs the plasmoid protocol finished out, but generally
> there. (notifications?)
> kuiserver - or should this also be added to the systemtray?
>
> candidates for addons 4.2
> =============
> bball  - works; cute

also system monitor was in a state i think more or less ready for addons, just 
two things happened some time ago:
the system-monitor applet (the one that embeds the other ones) stopped 
working, it fails to createthe embedded applets now
cpu temperature seems to not work anymore (problem in the dataengine?)
could be a problem in my system but i don't think since the sensors command 
still works ok.

i'll take a look (perhaps it's a quick fix), because it's a really nice set of 
applets, would be really cool to have them in 4.2

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> 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