[Raptor-Menu] Development status of the menu

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

On Friday 29 August 2008 01:08:22 Sacha wrote:
> I thought we are already using plasma as a dependency. What does
> plasma have that we could reuse? As far as I know, the only new parts
> of raptor are the Data plugin, UI and background plugin (both the
> interface). Plasma can't provide us with any help for those. It's only
> 3 plugins to do. The actual main program does nothing but start these
> plugins. Not that difficult.

I'm sorry, but there's really no good reason why we should write three plugins 
instead of using what plasma already provides us. This also includes kickoff.

The other approach is a nice way to introduce bugs. There is no reason why we 
have to write two separate plugins for the UI, and plasma already provides a 
way to show background, and a way to get the (stanard) menu data. Duplication 
of code is bad, we should implement just what's really needed: a view. So we 
should simply use kickoff as backend, and just implement a painter delegate.

That's for the standard categories, other than that, we have a starting point.

Bye,
-Riccardo
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