RFC: Put notifications in sidepanel like widget explorer

[Martin Klapetek]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:22 PM, kainz.a <kainz.a at gmail.com> wrote:

> The thing I say hidden panel was that first we have widgets and panels
> and in an widget you can only have one item in an panel you can move
> different widgets and in my mind the user can say I want to see the
> notifications, the weather and some configuration in this "sidepanel"
>
> maybe you all know the wonderful what-if stories from kven
> (
> https://kver.wordpress.com/2014/10/25/what-if-kde-used-windows-10-design-components/
> )
> there you also have the menu starter and some additional widgets in
> the starter so maybe we can extend the panel to an widget container or
> make an widget container, where the user can add and remove stuff.
>
> I'm not a big fan of different desktop shells cause the only
> difference is that you have different widgets so the user should say I
> want that widget and fine.
>

The current Notifications applet would still be available. If the user
wishes, he can recreate that kind of thing. You can have that with
current panels even.

But I don't want a hidden panel. I want this to be a core part of the
shell, basically.

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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