Hello! First I'd like to thank the whole KDE community for their gorgeous work :-) .. am currently running trunk compiled from source ... and it absolutely rocks :-)
I've been playing with the idea on taking part in the community for quite some time but until now I was much too busy... So.. now my problem: Documentation is a bit suboptimal .. well.. who want's to write docu ^^ ... so I'm a bit lost on where to start ... I'll try to explain what I'd like to do and I'd really appreciate to hear your opinion: 1.) Counter plasmoid for bigger (special) events like Christmas, Easter, New year, ... (counting down -- configurable from seconds to days) -- according to the event the artwork should change --> so not really related to appointments 2.) ability to specify own dates with own pictures (preferred SVG)... (e.g: holiday trip to Paris) 3.) birthdays, .... 4.) possibility to show more than one event at a time (when placed on the desktop), (e.g.: 5 days until birthday of XXX, 13 days until Christmas) 5.) on the panel it should just show an icon (e.g. easter eggs) with the text (e.g.: 4 days left) If it's not understandable I'll try to create a mockup... but ..well.. my artists skills are way below non existent ^^ Design decisions: 1.) Would an extender be preferred and a good choice? What I think sounds nice may be docking one event-counter to the clock. Although I don't know if an extender can be iconified for the panel. 2.) As mentioned before the plasmoid should work in panels and on the desktop itself... maybe it would be nice that the bigger the panel grows the more information are shown. 3.) another "problem" are the time zones -- different time zones/countries -- different dates -- think I'll have to find a solution myself.. don't expect anything of use to be in KDE for such a usecase ^^ 4.) Would themes be of any use? maybe for the basic events like Christmas, easter, .... 5.) I think a dataengine would be the right way on separating the data from the view? 6.) and lastly.. would anyone be willing to help me with the artwork when I reach the point where I'd need it? If it's of any interest for you I'd like to get this included in 4.3 extragear or something like that when I get it ready in time (which is the reason why I'll try starting it now ^^) ... You may wonder if I have any experience yet ... not KDE specific ... but I know Qt pretty well and I also have some experience in other languages (Java, C++, PHP, ...) so I think it should be manageable :-) So far I've accomplished to compile and run a mixture of the sample plasmoid from techbase and the digital clock from svn ^^. I'm really looking forward on getting some feedback from you and I wish you good luck in polishing and ironing out the last bugs for the 4.2 release :-) Best regards Bernhard Friedreich
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