Plasmoids for KDevelop's project dashboard

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Thu Aug 5 19:48:23 CEST 2010


On August 5, 2010, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Thursday 05 August 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On August 5, 2010, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > > I will need to filter the plasmoids that we can add to the dashboard
> > > because our configured file will be versioned and we need to have some
> > > common denominator, so having a list of such would be a nice start.
> > 
> > if i understand what you need correctly, this will indeed be a common
> > issue among applications, and i think it requires (at least to do it
> > non-hackishly
> > 
> > :) to be able to tag plugins with information that can be used in a
> > :generic
> > 
> > fashion .. e.g. tagging the notes plasmoid in some way  such that
> > KDevelop will be able to know that it is useful to it, without the notes
> > plasmoid having to actually say explicitly "use me in KDevelop" (since
> > other apps
> > 
> >  will also want it, apps the notes plasmoid author doesn't know yet)
> 
> uhm, maybe a series of keyword to be used as "caabilities" that say what
> the applet could be used for? (it could also depend from device form
> factors..)

yes, i think so. question is how to do this and where to put this
 information. needs a bit of design work.

> >  arg and it is assumed to be a file. i was never very happy with that.
>
 
> uhm normal text works as well since is possible to just drag mouse
> selection to desktop

guess how we make that work? (hint: "temp file") 

starting your groaning
 now, as it is well deserved :)

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