On Wednesday, January 30, 2013 12:57:02 Shaun Reich wrote: > of course i'd prefer homerun to be used, since it's essentially sal with > chocolate chips on top
not really. they serve rather different use cases. i think there was a rather significant misunderstanding about the purpose and goal of SAL when this work was started on it. this is why communication is important and dismissing the need for coordination is a bad idea. so what is the point of SAL? to provide a simple full-screen launcher with integrated search. more or less the same thing that is the Launch area in Plasma Active's tablet shell. the target use case was small screen systems. it turns out that it was also very popular with people who liked a minimalistic layout, as it let them use their desktop as their (streamlined) starting point. (often with little if any panel usage.) homerun is more of a powerful control center for the computer with a strong emphasis on file system access and system control. as such homerun is more in line with what kickoff tries to do. sal is krunner mixed with the applications page/tab in kickoff and homerun writ full screen. the emphasis is on simplicity and careful (non-)use of screen real estate. homerun is a great big powerful UI that likes to use every pixel you can throw at it. neither are "wrong" or "right", but they appeal to different people and fulfill rather different use cases. > keep sal-qml, kill sal-lenses then. the latter was where i started to form > homerune. the code in sal-qml should be pretty useful, iirc it had a lot of > sal's functionality implemented except for favoriting which needed some > work. > > so if someone had a hardon for it they could certainly spend a few weeks > and make it usable. ok, good to know. -- Aaron J. Seigo
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