Kde 4.1 thoughts

[p.daniels]

On Friday August 8 2008 12:50:30 Steve C. Lamb wrote:
>     I am still cold to the whole "plasmoid" thing.  Seriously, they're
> applications inside non-standard window controls.

No they're not. They're widget containers that can house almost any kind of 
widget written in most any language, and put it anywhere on the screen(s). Put 
widgets on the desktop, put widgets on only desktops 2 and 3, put widgets in 
the panel on odd-numbered desktops, put widgets in widgets. (That last is 
exactly what you're doing when you put something in the panel on KDE4; putting 
a widget container in a widget container.) The concept and the code are still 
very much works in progress, but that's exciting stuff. But wait there's more; 
eventual plans include real integration with KDE applications, so you could 
(for instance) drag the icon for your inbox out of Kontact's window onto the 
desktop or onto a panel and viola! Your inbox is now a plamoid. This is cool 
stuff.

> Requires the user to
> noodle out non-standard way of manipulating them and they're, by and large,
> a waste of screen real-estate.  I honestly don't see why these are supposed
> to be the hottest thing since sliced bread nor why so much time is going
> into developing the framework when it is of little to no benefit and
> obvious non-intuative duplication of controls.

I agree with the critique on the controls. It's gone through a couple 
iterations so far, and there's definitely still work to be done. Frankly I 
could do without the sidebar controls altogether if they'd just put Resize and 
Rotate in the right-click menu.

-p.
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