On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraess...@kde.org>wrote:
> On Saturday 24 May 2014 12:31:26 David Edmundson wrote: > > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:22 PM, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Saturday 24 May 2014 00:23:45 David Edmundson wrote: > > >> Hey, > > >> > > >> we've started to get bug reports on plasma-addons. It appears they're > > >> distributed as part of OpenSuse RPMs. > > >> > > >> Can I confirm our position on what we're doing here, based on our > > >> conversation last sprint. > > >> > > >> 1) They will not be released with the plasma release next month > > >> I think to do so would undermine the quality of anything we currently > > >> have. > > >> > > >> Plasma Next + 1 should be ok for any plasmoid that someone steps up to > > >> maintain (not just port). > > >> > > >> 2) They should have somewhere else in bugzilla than plasmashell > > >> > > >> I clean through plasma-shell every other evening, I know others do > > >> too, if we include everything under the sun it'll be plasma1 all over > > >> again. Stretched too thin. > > > > > > yep, should be somewhere. > > > > > > btw,porting the complete set is kdeplasma-addons is not optional for > > > future > > > release, because everything that's missing will be perceived as a > > > regression, no matter what we feel about it :p > > > > I really don't agree here. > > Some of them, KDE Observatory for example, don't even work in KDE4. > > > > Just because someone wrote some code once 5 years ago and then > > abandoned it does not make it our duty to support it. > > I support David on this one. I think we have better ways to spend our > development resources than to pick up some dead code and port it to QML. > > My favorite example is IconTasks which is a huge framework on how to build > a > tasks applet. It copies Unity way too much that it should be something we > provide and I think our development resources are better spent making the > default tasks applet work kick ass (note with that I do not mean that we > should merge the bazillion of options from icon tasks.). > > Cheers > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > Yes, I like that example too. I think it's the feature I miss the most from plasma 1 and the reason I don't feel I can recommend Plasma Next to a big set of people. Aleix
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