On Thursday 04 September 2008, Gerhard Gappmeier wrote: > Hi > > Il Wednesday 03 September 2008 17:53:03 Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: > >> widget is becoming a common term for these little plugin type things; we > >> use the term in plasma because we support so many different types of > >> them that "applet", which is really technicaly jargon, doesn't apply. > > > > So we must kill in every user string "applet" word (mixing both applet > > and widgetsisn't a good idea)... > > oh, anyway, having on descriptions the word "widget" usually doesn't make > > sense: the add window has got already the word widget on it, so they are > > obviously widgets... > > I was also irritated by these words. > > I thought Plasma widgets are called "plasmoids".
they are. > Ther term "Widget" is used by a lot of Qt stuff. irrelevant to the user. remember to lobotomize your developer brain when thinking about these things ;) > Apple calls them Widgets. > Google calls them Gadgets. > Don't know how MS calls them. Sidebar Gadgets > At the end I don't care how we call it. But I agree we need one single > name. Widget,Gadget: Have the advantage that they are already very common. > Plasmoid: Has the advantage that it's clear that it is a Plasma gadget. you're mixing levels of the taxonomy. all Plasmoids are Widgets, but not all Widgets are Plasmoids. HTML/CSS can also be Widgets; Google Gadgets are Widgets; MacOS X Dashboard Widgets are Widgets, too. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Trolltech
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