Welcome to 4.3.

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 07 January 2009, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > 	* The Plasma Design Studio; I've been working on design concepts since
> > Akademy around this and have some, imo anyways, pretty decent ideas on
> > how to do it
>
> Is this about UI design or theme design? Or both?

well .. kind of neither =) it's going to be all about making widgets and 
dataengines in dynamic (aka "not c++") languages. UI design will obviously be 
a part of it, but not the whole thing.

the idea is to make a very small and highly workfow optimized "IDE" for 
plasmoid creation and publishing.

a killer feature will be seamless integration with git and online git 
repositories, completely replacing "save" and "save as" to disk concepts with 
"save points" will be handled behind the scenes as commits. it should also be 
easy to browse the online catalog right in the app and say "ooh, i'd like to 
start modifying that one" and have it create a git branch immediately and 
transparently. "publish" will push it to a remote hosting service, and 
.plasmoid files can be automatically generated on that service (zipping up git 
checkouts =)

obviously the Package based treeview, live preview of the widget, built in 
documentation, etc.. will all be nice as well. ;)

i'm not looking to recreate kate or kdevelop, either. obviously it will use as 
many of the kde components available as possible (katepart for editting 
scripts, e.g.) and the UI itself *must* be kept simple and streamlined because 
it *must* be something someone can open and start working with immediately.

> If it is about UI, just wanted to remind you of PUCK (Plasma UI Compiler)
> that I've developed for L. At the moment, it supports

yes, i do plan to look at this at some point.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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