Plasma 5.1 Kickoff Meeting

[Eike Hein]

On 07/15/2014 04:20 PM, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> 3) Work out the 5.1 Todo items

Unfortunately I likely won't be able to make the meeting in that
time slot tomorrow, so I'd like to get out ahead and just throw
in what's on my personal todo/wishlist at the moment so you can
work with that. Big sorry for hijacking this thread with details
that would be better placed at the actual meeting, but I figure
more info is better than no info:

- More Folder work: Aside from general bugfixing and optimiza-
   tions, I'd like to e.g. get some of the tooltip metadata
   smarts back, and there's a bunch more work to do on preser-
   ving positions across more scenarios, etc. - it's a roadmap
   of iterative improvement there; more love is needed.

- More Kicker/launcher work: I'd like to roll some kmenuedit
   features directly into the launcher, like editing a menu entry
   right from its context menu. This also needs coordination with
   Kickoff, most likely.

- Task Manager: Port Icon Tasks (based on the lib-side work
   done for the Expanding Icons Task manager widget for 4).


On the new and unknown front:

- Kicker currently has the ability to add apps to the panel,
   the desktop (smart enough to use a symlink rather than an
   Icon instance) and the Task Manager (i.e. a TM launcher
   item). This is nice from a UX POV, but the implementation
   isn't very elegant - just like in 4 it's basically widgets
   talking directly to each other, with no generic contract.

   Marco and I have talked on and off about some sort of
   launcher data engine where widgets can throw things into
   a launcher pool and other widgets can decide how to use
   that data; it's all still quite vague, but maybe we can
   hash this out for 5.1.

- I'm generally interested in helping out with visual things
   and VDG implementation stuff, so depending on my workload
   from the above (and other commitments at my employer) if
   things get to "who do we scribble in for this work item",
   you can tentatively jot me down on things like that.


Cheers,
Eike