On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> wrote:
> Hi workspace developers,
>
> my JavaScript bindings for KWin effects are nearly in place and that
> results
> in a few questions I wanted to discuss with the greater team.
>
> The scripted effects follow the Plasma Packages structure and I plan to
> have
> also "normal" KWin scripts use Plasma Package structure as well as window
> decorations and window switcher layouts.
>
> Should such files use the file ending "plasmoid" or should we introduce new
> names like "kwineffect", "kwinswitcher", "kwinscript", "kwindecoration"?
> Could
> using "plasmoid" result in problems like the widgets explorer trying to
> install the kwineffect when dropped on the desktop?
>
My opinion.. keep .plasmoid for the actual "widgets" that can be placed on
the desktop.
use the new names ("kwineffect", "kwinswitcher", "kwinscript",
"kwindecoration") for kwin.
Just my 2 cents. I can't comment on the other questions since I know to
little about that.
>
> The second question I have is about the additional effects. Now that we
> have
> the scripted bindings I want to rewrite a few pure eye-candy effects with
> the
> bindings and move them out of the KWin source tree. Where should they go? I
> tend to plasma-addons.
>
> Last but not least: how does this synchrotron work and does it offer
> something
> which would be very useful to distribute our effects, scripts, etc?
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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