pruning branches in kde-workspace

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:57:02 Shaun Reich wrote:
> of course i'd prefer homerun to be used, since it's essentially sal with
> chocolate chips on top

not really. they serve rather different use cases. i think there was a rather 
significant misunderstanding about the purpose and goal of SAL when this work 
was started on it. this is why communication is important and dismissing the 
need for coordination is a bad idea.

so what is the point of SAL? to provide a simple full-screen launcher with 
integrated search. more or less the same thing that is the Launch area in 
Plasma Active's tablet shell. the target use case was small screen systems. it 
turns out that it was also very popular with people who liked a minimalistic 
layout, as it let them use their desktop as their (streamlined) starting 
point. (often with little if any panel usage.)

homerun is more of a powerful control center for the computer with a strong 
emphasis on file system access and system control. as such homerun is more in 
line with what kickoff tries to do.

sal is krunner mixed with the applications page/tab in kickoff and homerun writ 
full screen. the emphasis is on simplicity and careful (non-)use of screen 
real estate.

homerun is a great big powerful UI that likes to use every pixel you can throw 
at it.

neither are "wrong" or "right", but they appeal to different people and fulfill 
rather different use cases.

> keep sal-qml, kill sal-lenses then. the latter was where i started to form
> homerune. the code in sal-qml should be pretty useful, iirc it had a lot of
> sal's functionality implemented except for favoriting which needed some
> work.
> 
> so if someone had a hardon for it they could certainly spend a few weeks
> and make it usable.

ok, good to know.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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