[Raptor-Menu] Development status of the menu

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

On Friday 29 August 2008 07:56:54 Lukas Appelhans wrote:
> Well to be honest, we should have some API discussion before starting to
> code. We need:
> -DataPlugin
> -UiPlugin
> -BackgroundPlugin (mostly done)
>
> When the DataPlugin-API is defined I will work on the first plugin, which
> will be done rather quickly I guess.

Guys, I'm still really really wondering why we don't simply use Plasma 
technologies, which provides all the API we need, which has been studied by 
really knowledgeable people, and analyzed in every detail. Why reinventing 
the wheel and try to overengineer things when there's no need for that?

Or, even better, why we don't just use kickoff as backend (with the model-view 
approach) and just write a new delegate for painting? That's by far the 
easiest, most bugfree and quicker route, and allows us to concentrate just on 
the view. And then we can simply expand incrementally from there. But giving 
something to people to look at and to play with will give us much feedback 
and new developers.

Bye,
-Riccardo
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