How to get Akonadi notes onto Plasma?

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 02 November 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Monday 02 November 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> >> 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 think no point in making them extenders if they are going to be full
> > applets once detached.
> >
> > best idea is probably the one rfom sebas, making the notes applet there
> > is now to manage akonadi urls drop, so in that case would be connected to
> > akonadi and save there
> > there would be another applet that would show a simple list view  of the
> > notes text where is possible to drag notes out (same thing should be
> > possible also from kjots to look really killer)
> 
> Yeah, that sounds pretty good. This is the kind of thing I meant when I
> wrote about a master applet with satellites applets, which Aaron wrote
>  would fail in some situations. I'm not certain if this is what he meant,
>  but some issues that I see are:
> 
> * Can the master applet or list applet know when a note it is listing is
> dropped onto the workspace and should not be shown in the list anymore.
> * Can the master applet know when a note applet was closed/dismissed and
> should be shown in the list again.

 i think it should always be shown in the list if you follow this approach


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Marco Martin