Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

[Chani]

On Monday, July 12, 2010 04:09:44 am Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
> >   Il 12/07/2010 12:54, Marco Martin ha scritto:
> > > On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote:
> > >> On Monday 12 July 2010 11:47:51 Marco Martin wrote:
> > >>> or do you have a better idea to -magically- find an image that
> > >>> represent that activity without user intervention?
> > >> 
> > >> Why would Activities be created without user intervention?
> > > 
> > > not creation of activities without user intervention, but assigning a
> > > meaningful image without the user being forced to chose something
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Marco Martin
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> > Well, I don't completely see the point of avoiding any type of
> > configuration to the user. IMO, when creating a new activity, the user
> > might be prompted to choose among a set of default activities. Those
> > activities might already have a name and a default icon together with
> > some default plasmoids already loaded. Then the user might eventually
> > choose to create his custom activity and in that case he would choose a
> > name and an icon in place of a default, generic one.
> 
> that could be an idea.
> the corresponding containment (or the first if there are more that one
> containment per activity) could be loaded from a javascript template with
> default plasmoids that have something to do with it
> 

+1, javascript template support is already halfway there, and the user can 
already choose containment types (desktop, folderview, etc).