Changes to Plasma Weather - Git revision 5a09cd815edd7723800c0ba43a8be9f67d28e011

[Shawn Starr]

On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 08:30:50 AM Luís Gabriel wrote:
> You can see some screenshots here:
> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/106225/
> There was no changes in the UI, it was just rewritten in QML.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Luís Gabriel
> 

FYI, this discussion has been taken offline to IRC right now.

Thanks,
Shawn.

> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Shawn Starr <shawn.starr at rogers.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 07:58:16 AM Luís Gabriel wrote:
> > > Hi  Shawn,
> > > 
> > > I don't see the point of revert the changes.
> > > Sorry about the misunderstanding but as you see in the previous replies,
> > > not everyone were aware of your plans to work on this plasmoid.
> > > Feel free to work on a new UI if you want, but please do it on top of
> > > the
> > > current master.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > --
> > > Luís Gabriel
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would rather not have to fork my own project so I won't be doing that. I
> > need to see screenshot of the changes being made since removing
> > information is
> > not part of my plans for this applet, cleaning up graphic elements is
> > however.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Shawn.
> > 
> > > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tuesday 11 September 2012, Shawn Starr wrote:
> > > > > Hi Luís,
> > > > > 
> > > > > I appreciate you making changes to the code, but it would have been
> > 
> > nice
> > 
> > > > to
> > > > 
> > > > > been told about this since I am about to replace this with QML
> > 
> > porting.
> > 
> > > > > Please discuss with me what changes you would like to make as I am
> > > > > in
> > > > > the
> > > > > process of porting to QML for the applet. My goals for '2.0' are
> > > > 
> > > > different
> > > > 
> > > > > from what you're doing.
> > > > > 
> > > > > I would like to revert this out of trunk or discuss this on IRC
> > 
> > please.
> > 
> > > > ok, let me be clear about this.
> > > > there won't be any revert.
> > > > 
> > > > all the changes were discussed and toroughly reviewed. It's
> > > > unfortunate
> > > > that
> > > > you didn't participate in it and yes, it's also unfortunate that we
> > 
> > didn't
> > 
> > > > contact you.
> > > > 
> > > > when the rewrite started, that applet was effectively abandoned and
> > > > bitrotting
> > > > since at least two years, as unfortunately are many other applets in
> > > > kdeplasma-addons, and this requires an action (other addons plasmoids
> > 
> > will
> > 
> > > > soon share the same fate)
> > > > 
> > > > about the 2.0 you have in mind, the current design well fits in the
> > 
> > global
> > 
> > > > style (simple display of information that cuts useless graphic
> > 
> > elements to
> > 
> > > > the
> > > > minimum) that is the style the default plasmoids should have.
> > > > 
> > > > However, if you want something different, you are more than welcome
> > > > and
> > > > encouraged to work on another plasmoid (and then using the same review
> > > > process
> > > > that was used in this case)
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Marco Martin
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