[rekonq] Re: [GSoC] Plasma integration

[Guillaume DE BURE]

Le vendredi 11 février 2011 01:17:13, todd rme a écrit :
> 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.

I can canfirm we are working on it for skrooge:
http://i.imgur.com/1XH39.png

This above is the work of notmart on theming plasma for application dashboards.

What we call a dashboard in Skrooge is a tab where we can put widgets giving you some information about your financial situation. It was initially written using Qt/KDE widgets, but we had to implement things like:
* adding / removing widgets
* reorganizing widgets by drag n' drop
* refresh data in the widget
* ...
After a while, we said: "wait, isn't all this already implemented in plasma ?". Yes, but more robust and visually nicer :).

We are now in the process of rewriting our dashboard with plasma dashboard, and the plasma devs have been doing a great job listening to our needs and helping us in implementation. The benefit for our users will be something more visually appealing, more flexible, and consistency with other KDE apps. And for us developpers, cleaner and smaller code :).


> 
> >>> 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.
> >

If you have been thinking about adding something like this in rekonq, it would be even more awesome :)

> > 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
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