playground applets (sytem monitor)

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 30 September 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> 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
temperature works again
http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/207/
Petri, ok to commit?
also, if you agree i have just a couple of suggestions/issue on what should be 
changed and then i think it could go in addons (heck, could even do them 
myself if it's ok)

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/kbs
> >ta 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