Review request: Container plasma applet

[Giulio Camuffo]

I know that that functionality belongs in a Containment, but since
containments in containments are not supported i had to use an Applet.
And i know that this applet will never have all the functionalities the
containments have, but this isn't my goal. I wanted to develop a simple
applet to group other applets. I don't plan to implement e.g. the new
feature that loads the applet depending on the mimetype dropped.

I developed this also because I thought to do a plasmoid that was actually a
set of plasmoids inserted in this applet. But if you say that this brings
many bugs and headaches amybe i'll change my mind.
I don't understand however why the systemtray isn't problematic while this
one it is.

I already published it on kde-look, and I'd say people like it, since it is
already 80% good with only 73 downloads, but I thought it would be more
discoverable to the people if it was inside KDE, since, from what I read,
some people need it.

Anyway, with your last sentence you was saying that I could have done a
similar thing working directly on containments?


Giulio

2009/9/20 Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>

> On September 20, 2009, Giulio Camuffo wrote:
> > I've added in kdereview/plasma/applets an applet i made recently. It is,
> as
> >  the name suggests, an applet that lets you contain and group other
> >  applets.
>
> this functionality belongs in a Containment, not an Applet.
>
> we have two applets right now that can contain other applets: system tray
> and
> system monitor. the latter has had numerous bugs and is, to be frank, an
> implementation mistake. there is nothing that could not have been done much
> easier and with less hacking around stuff if system monitor had not been
> written to embed the various system monitor applets directly.
>
> the design of Plasma is such that the Containment<->Applet relationship is
> quite carefully crafted and solves a lot of issues. ContainerWidget::drop
> which does not support various features found in Containment is a good
> example
> of this.
>
> i think it's a nice candidate for publishing on kde-look.org and you can
> certainly put it into extragear if you'd like, but the concept is
> problematic
> from a design perspective and will cause inconsistencies and other problems
> if
> we ship it with Plasma.
>
> given Containments have complete freedom on how to manage, group, etc.
> Applets, focusing these kinds of efforts there would make a lot more sense.
>
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