[RFC] New (QML) Desktop Containment

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 22 November 2012, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Wednesday, November 21, 2012 20:42:09 Alex Fiestas wrote:
> > How do you envision "Plasmoid management" ?
> 
> imho there should be as little mental differentiation between "using" and
> "managing". this is a technical / implementation differentiation we make as
> developers. the UI should try and keep management integrated to make usage
> of the system require fewer mental context switches and modes.
> 
> i understand that being able to lock widgets makes this harder to
> understand, and i regret that the feature is even there at this point, if
> only because it gives developers all sorts of wrong ideas like "locking
> should be the default" which is a way of saying "modes are awesome".

just to get everyone up to speed on this part of the discussion, if is not 
clear what "mode" is in this particular context, it has a quite precise 
definition:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(computer_interface)
http://www.usabilityfirst.com/glossary/mode-error/
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Cheers,
Marco Martin