Plasma Addons

[Aleix Pol]

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org>wrote:

> 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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Yes, I like that example too. I think it's the feature I miss the most from
plasma 1 and the reason I don't feel I can recommend Plasma Next to a big
set of people.

Aleix
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