Replace kimpanel in kdeplasma-addons with a rewrite version

[David Palacio]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 08:39:11PM +0800, Weng Xuetian wrote:
> Hi Plasma World,
> Kimpanel in plasma-addons is without maintainer for quite a long time,
> since the author has some difficulty get access to internet due to his
> job (He has let his friend leave a comment on blog of the kimtoy
> author recently). So kimpanel has some really nasty bug and not fixed
> for a long time.
> 
Hi,

What did you mean with regard to the kimtoy author? Are you going to unite
your efforts? Or are both applications going different ways?

Thanks for taking care of Kimpanel.

Regards,
David

> Like this:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229105
> (I could report more bug, but since the first one didn't get fixed so ... )
> 
> So I rewrite kimpanel (Use the same dbus protocol), and use dataengine
> for instead of direct dbus access. And I would like to maintain it in
> the future.
> Currently I put my code in github (
> https://github.com/csslayer/kimpanel-rewrite ), and it's already has
> the same feature as the old kimpanel, with all bug I found fixed, some
> new feature. I hope I can push the new version into KDE 4.8.
> 
> Regards,
> Xuetian
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