Plasma Applet Direction

[David Baron]

A few observations, queries:

1. Folks seem to be posting applets on kde-look. This is for eye-candy, 
decorations, screen savers.  Applets that treat useful information belong on 
kde-apps, I would think.

2. What to show? Seems to be a trend of plaster large screen areas with the 
whole kit-and-caboodle. Very quickly, there is no more room. Why do I need 
three days (count 'em) of weather forecast covering a percentage of my screen 
real estate? Same with network stats and system info.

3. KDE3 panel applets/services I STILL use because they have not been ported: 
knemo, ksensors. There was also a system-monitor (four of them posted on kde-
look are not as nice), kweather, kisa (cool live spell-checker), and others 
which will not work or not function correctly in KDE4. Would love to see (or 
participate in) their port to KDE4 (not just getting off dcop but going over 
to provided data-engines).

What is distinctive about these is that they present (even a small!!) icon on 
the panel which shows a useful bit of information (which sometimes I can 
choose). If I want more, I hover over the icon or click it and then I have 
access to everything. Examples of current KDE4 applets that work this way are 
kget, kmix.

What say you?