[rekonq] Re: [GSoC] Plasma integration

[todd rme]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Benjamin Poulain
<benjamin.poulain at nokia.com> wrote:
> On 02/11/2011 12:49 AM, ext todd rme wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> Could you give some examples of projects making a good use of plasma? It
> is interesting to see the success stories.

I think kontact, kdevelop, and skrooge are using it, or will be.  That
was the whole point of developing the plasma kpart in the first place.
 Amarok has been using it for a while now.  Calligra just said that
they thought using plasma for the presenter view was a good idea.
Then there is the plasma media center that is being worked on, which
can either be used on the desktop or as a stand-alone application.  It
seems in the cases where using plasma makes sense, there are movements
to use it.

>>> 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.
>
> Limitation of online services are not our problem since we have access
> to hybrid.

Sorry, I am not clear what you are saying here.

-Todd