Changes to Plasma Weather - Git revision 5a09cd815edd7723800c0ba43a8be9f67d28e011

[David Edmundson]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Shawn Starr <shawn.starr at rogers.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
Make sure someone posts a summary here afterwards so history is kept.


> 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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