Plasma 5.1 Kickoff Meeting

[Jonathan Riddell]

Added these three items to our lovely new Todo list at https://todo.kde.org/

Eike please log in with KDE account and it'll make an account so we can
assign the items to you

Jonathan



On 15 July 2014 16:41, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> wrote:

>
> 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
>
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