[Raptor-Menu] Development status of the menu

Rafa Muñoz Cárdenas bymenda at gmail.com
Thu Aug 28 22:26:44 CEST 2008


I support your idea Riccardo.
Maybe it is possible to mixing the internal structure of kicker and the
Plasma interface, but anyways... it's your decission what to do with the
project.

Miau miau.

2008/8/28 Riccardo Iaconelli <riccardo at kde.org>

> 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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