Plasma Addons

[Martin Graesslin]

On Saturday 24 May 2014 12:31:26 David Edmundson wrote:
> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 24 May 2014 00:23:45 David Edmundson wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >> 
> >> we've started to get bug reports on plasma-addons. It appears they're
> >> distributed as part of OpenSuse RPMs.
> >> 
> >> Can I confirm our position on what we're doing here, based on our
> >> conversation last sprint.
> >> 
> >> 1) They will not be released with the plasma release next month
> >> I think to do so would undermine the quality of anything we currently
> >> have.
> >> 
> >> Plasma Next + 1 should be ok for any plasmoid that someone steps up to
> >> maintain (not just port).
> >> 
> >> 2) They should have somewhere else in bugzilla than plasmashell
> >> 
> >> I clean through plasma-shell every other evening, I know others do
> >> too, if we include everything under the sun it'll be plasma1 all over
> >> again. Stretched too thin.
> > 
> > yep, should be somewhere.
> > 
> > btw,porting the complete set is kdeplasma-addons is not optional for
> > future
> > release, because everything that's missing will be perceived as a
> > regression, no matter what we feel about it :p
> 
> I really don't agree here.
> Some of them, KDE Observatory for example, don't even work in KDE4.
> 
> Just because someone wrote some code once 5 years ago and then
> abandoned it does not make it our duty to support it.

I support David on this one. I think we have better ways to spend our 
development resources than to pick up some dead code and port it to QML.

My favorite example is IconTasks which is a huge framework on how to build a 
tasks applet. It copies Unity way too much that it should be something we 
provide and I think our development resources are better spent making the 
default tasks applet work kick ass (note with that I do not mean that we 
should merge the bazillion of options from icon tasks.).

Cheers
Martin
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