How to get Akonadi notes onto Plasma?

[Stephen Kelly]

Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> On October 30, 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> would prefer to only show the actual notes in the stack on click so they
>> could be dragged elsewhere. Obviously the background svg of it should not
>>  be as it is, or the size it currently is. Additionally I need to give
>>  some visual indication of colour in the notes, either the notes
>>  themselves being a different colour, or having a strip of a colour that
>>  can be set etc.
> 
> these are all doable; i just wonder if it's the best we can do for a UI.
> i'm not getting any inspired thoughts right now (too early in the day
> still, i think :) but maybe if i think on it or if someone else comes up
> with a great idea we could device a nicer more plasma approach to showing
> stacks of notes.
> 
>> Would having one master applet and each note as a satellite applet work?
> 
> it would probably fail in some situations or just be more difficult than
> necessary to get working properly. when the notes are separated by the
> user into individual pieces, they should probably just become individual
> applets.
> 

So could a combined approach work? When new notes are inserted elsewhere and 
should be represented in plasma too, could it be put into an extender, and 
then if the extender is dragged out it becomes another plasma applet?

Would it then be possible to drag a detached note back to the stack and into 
an extender? 

I'm going to take an idea from Thomas Olsens mail and try to make notes 
always collapsed in the stack, with the first part of the content in a 
tooltip. I'm also going to try to make it so that the extender is only shown 
on click even when on the workspace as is true of the clock/calculator. 

Hopefully it won't be too much work to change it if a combined approach 
would work better. 

Then I'll have to see about custom painting the extenderitems to give them a 
specific color.

I need to get a working prototype of the above together for a few weeks from 
now. If anyone can give me pointers about it, please do let me know. I might 
be reading it wrong, but I seem to be getting advice to go in many different 
directions from many different people.


All the best,

Steve.