On 20/10-2009 20:16 Chani <chan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > About the name confusion: are there any reasons for Plasmoids also being > > referred to as Applets and Widgets? Widgets is a specially confusing term > > as at least I think of Qt Widgets when used. > > Widget = any sort of little doodad you can add to your desktop. plasmoids, > google gadgets, osx dashboard widgets, etc... that group of things seemed > to already have "widget" as the most common name before plasma came along. > > Plasmoid = a plasma-specific widget. > > Applet = the class within libplasma that all plasmoids inherit.
Thanks Chani. I think I wasn't being clear in what I wrote. What I meant was that reading through documentation, tutorials etc. about creating *Plasmoids* the terms seems to be used rather randomly. -- Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen Thomas Olsen _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel