On Dienstag, 5. April 2016 10:45:28 CEST Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > Hi, > > > So with the experience of the 40 plugins in KWin I think the possible > > gains presented here do not justify the addition of code and UI elements. > I have to disagree. You can't really compare KWin plug-ins of which users > usually shouldn't even be aware they are a thing to Plasma applets which > are user-facing mini applications. > > A user might see the network applet shows crap and so they want to report > specifically that to the network guy, or a minor issue in Kickoff, etc. and > we usually have a bko component for all applets assigned to the right guy. > > Re the honor of third party applets: yes, that too, we used to have that in > widget explorer but now there's nowhere to see license or author info.
I agree with Kai: Plasmoids are much more "standalone" from a user's perspective than KWin effects. As he said: They are mini applications, after all. And they are more likely to have bugs which the user can actually associate with a specific Plasmoid. If a KWin effect goes wrong, users would first have to identify which one in the list it is, whereas for a Plasmoid it's clear: You just click on the thing that went bad. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
