"we (plasma team) don't actually control that =)" There really does need to be a pervasive integration of all aspects of the user-experience with plasma. Get Hot New Stuff is an interesting compromise, but at the moment it seems a strange klutch, which stands in the way of implementing a much more comprehensive solution, similar to Microsoft's new integrated galleries for downloading widgets and themes in Vista/Windows 7.
I know 1) that all takes a lot of manpower that's probably not available, and 2) plasma team probably doesn't want to deal with this stuff anyway. I know I wouldn't. Just a dream. :) But someday it would be fantastic to easily browse a gallery of available plasmoids and metathemes (Qt, Plasma, wallpapers) and immediately apply them without the hassle of configuration. But until deeper integration is done, tedious it stays. Certainly no one, though, could argue kde-look and kde-apps (and their gnome counterparts) are pinnacles of web marketplace usability. My word those sites are intimidating. And then you find all sorts of packages which may or may not work, are too distro-specific, and require manual compilation*. I'm certain a lot of work went into their design, but despite that it's quite a low standard for extending the free desktop. Just can't win mindshare with stuff like that. /rant *And perhaps these problems are the sad state of linux in general, as opposed to the website. Certainly if packages _didn't need to be_ distro-specific or limited by package management, _no one_ would ever make such packages -- it's a direct result of the linux software ecosystem. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel