On Monday 02 February 2009, matthias sweertvaegher wrote: > btw, can somebody explain what's the deal with applets? I thought they > were called plasmoids today and that the word applet was forbidden now > ;) but in the sourcetree there are all kinds of references to applet.
there are two places "applet" appears: in the source code tree (e.g. plasma/applets/battery) and that should probably be changed to plasmoids. the name "plasmoid" came after applets when i began to realize that we'd end up with non-plasma widgets available to users. so this is a historical relic. the Applet class in the source tree. in name, this mimics the Applet class from kicker. it is now the "meta-concept" for all widgets: regardless of whether it is a plasmoid, a google gadget, edje, etc they are all, to the internal Plasma code, Applets. as for what a "Plasmoid" is: Plasmoids are native Plasma widgets that use the libplasma API. p.s. welcome to KDE and Plasma dev :) -- 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 Qt Software
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