Kickoff-QML and classic launcher

[Nowardev-Team]

2011/12/22 Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org>

> On Wednesday 21 December 2011 18:25:51 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Tuesday, December 20, 2011 20:51:32 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > > My personal favorite is option 3.
> >
> > 3 is a good solution imho ... except that it will break people's
> > installations who have kde-workspace but not kdeplasma-addons installed.
> so
> > we can break this into two applets, but i don't think we can move the
> > classic menu out just yet.
> With a kconf update script it might be possible. If the user uses the
> classic
> menu and it's not available any more we transfer him to Kickoff.
> >
> > also, right now the "switch to classic menu" / "switch to kickoff"
> option in
> > the context menu works by deleting the existing applet and creating a
> _new
> > one_ of the new type. this pretty well sucks as it means settings get
> lost
> > in what should be a setting-loss-less event.
> full ack. I thought about that before I wrote the mail and decided that
> iff I
> port the classic menu to QML it would not become an own applet but just a
> different QML frontend for the same applet.
> >
> > it's really a horrible hack and i'd suggest getting rid of it. people can
> > add the classic menu from the widget explorer like all the rest.
> >
> > in fact, since we had a thread about the scripting stuff here already, we
> > could easily add a "Classic KDE" panel script option that creates a panel
> > just like in KDE 3. heck, it could even change the desktop use icons
> only.
> > this would be rather trivial to make happen for 4.9 .. thoughts?
> What you want to destroy the use case for Trinity and Qt-Razor? ;-)
>
> Sure sounds like a good idea.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
:) i did a lots of panels btw..  mm  i could try to make classic kde3
layout right now,

 svn export --force
https://plasma-panels-script.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/layout-templates/





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