merging declarative plasmoids

[todd rme]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> on the topic of merging, another thing that i would like to see merged asap,
> is the two qm plasmoid rewrites that were more or less completed by Virach:
> the device notifier and the battery one.
> there are still minor problems, especially related to the config ui, but have
> already been discussed and should going to be fixed soon.
>
> another reason i want this is for the additions if for active:
> a) doing things like making the mount/unmount button a touchable size (and
> only in the active shell) in active is trivial with the qml version
> b) would also need the modifications done to the soliddevice and powermanagent
> dataengines that make possible using only qml (i need to list removable
> devices in the photo viewer app)

Have all the c++ parts, like dataengine changes, already been merged
from this?  It would seem that merging the C++ parts in time for the
KDE SC 4.8 release should be the top priority.  The QML parts are
relatively easy to install separately, right (since they do not need
to be compiled)?

So I think the top priority should be getting all the dataengine and
other portions that require compiling or changes to the normal plasma
release merged (even for widgets that are not done).  If that is all
that is accomplished, the worse case scenario is that people will have
to download the QML widgets (it might even be possible to put them on
kde-look.org or something temporarily).  It would also make it easier
for people to start writing third-party QML widgets.  Then, merge the
widgets that are essentially done as you suggest.

-Todd