KDE's Plasma: How not to do lists...

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Donnerstag, 18. März 2010 10:15:04 schrieb Will Stephenson:
> On Wednesday 17 March 2010 14:14:17 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > By the way, just strikes me that I've implemented VPN support in the new
> > Network Manager Plasmoid last week, and I've already some reports that it
> > seems to work well. What kind of VPN are you using?
> 
> You know that anything you can do in the plasmoid won't make a hair of
> difference to the business end of how the VPN connections appear on the bus
> to NetworkManager and whether or not they work.
> 
> As Reinhold is already using knetworkmanager and is taking a critical
> user's stance in his blogs, telling him about a new UI that is not yet
> production ready and doesn't resolve the underlying issue is not likely
> impress him, whereas as a hacker he might be distracted by the new shiny.

It's not so much the fact that I'm a hacker. It's rather my opinion that a 
network connection nowadays is something natural today, so as I user I just 
want it to work and not be bothered with it at all (or at least only to the 
absolute minimum required).

Since I also don't use the desktop (I tend to have about a dozen windows 
open...), a plasmoid on the desktop is annoying to me. And a plasmoid on the 
panel takes way too much space from the window list.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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Reinhold Kainhofer, reinhold at kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
 * Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
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