Projects/Plasma/Tasks

This page is referring to the meeting of 21/02/2006 (still work in progress....)

Tasks

Just put your name (or nickname) in brackets near the task you want to claim. This will avoid the duplicate work. Thanks! =)

New tasks popped out in the meeting

• Put the autostart functionality from KDesktop to ksmserver.
• Merge the functionalities of ~/.kde/Autostart with ~/.kde/share/autostart
• Complete runner classes in krunner
• Integrate ksysguard's process table into krunner
• What plasma will be able to do/what we do want from it:
  • Use a widget with background painting (e.g. fullscreen plasmoids).
  • Implement the zooming of objects.
  • Implement the grouping of objects in collections (with special containers).
• See if QGV works well for ↑ (Unicode char for ^, arrow up). We will use it until the lasts days of march, then we will see how it worked. We will evaluate alternatives then (if not enough satisfied).
• Create widgets aware of zooming, that won't continuously redraw themselves, but just at the end of the zooming animation (or something like that... use common sense ;-)
  • A label
  • A button
  • An svg visualizer
  • An html widget
  • A line/textedit (does it already exists?)

What happened in the meeting

This wants to be just a short resume on what happened in the first meeting (21-02-2006)

First thing, Aaron explained us what is his idea of Plasma and why he arrived there. Especially, he said that: «we need an amarok of the desktop so people go "oh. -that's- why"».

For those still not familiar with this concept, he explained also that everything will be "a widget (or, as somehow caught on, "plasmoid")... from the launcher buttons to full on widgets and mini-apps" Especially, the desktop won't be centered anymore on displaying the content of a folder. This will still remain availeable though, you will be able to do a full-screen plasmoid that shows the content of a certain folder. ;-)

After that, we started the discussion on what needs to be done. The first thing is to get all the essential components that still are in KDesktop been moved away. So, we are at a good mpoint in this, because everything but the autostart stuff has been moved out and into KRunner. KRunner is a new application for KDE 4 that will manage the screensaver, will show a task list, will provide a run dialog and manage app startup notification.