[rekonq] Re: [GSoC] Plasma integration

[todd rme]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Benjamin Poulain
<benjamin.poulain at nokia.com> wrote:
> On 02/10/2011 11:29 PM, ext Jon Ander Peñalba wrote:
>> [1]
>> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2011/Ideas#Project:_Plasma_KPart_for_Rekonq
>
> I have read this and I am like ... what's the point?
>
> In my opinion, Plasma is already too heavy, by trying to do everything,
> it does not do a single thing right.

A lot of projects seem to disagree on this.

> So I think the questions are really:
> -How will that benefit our users?

I would say it is basically like a google or yahoo home page, but
built directly into the browser.  This allows it to also integrate
things like favorites. and downloads that similar online services
cannot handle, while getting things like rss feeds, clocks, weather,
TV show times, and other similar features for free (since they are
already available in plasma).  It makes sense to me.

> -How that will make our life easier to develop the project?

You would only need to provide the basic elements with the correct
data.  Things like appearance, layout, resizing, customization,
sizing, animations, and transparency are already build so you don't
need to worry about it.