hi Reinhold. just read your blog on planet.kde.org, and i have to say that perhaps the least useful way of reporting bugs is by blog. full stop. that you decided to spend your first blog entry in over 2 years doing that is pretty sad.
if you come and talk to those of us working on these things, we could help you out with some useful information. as it stands, your blog entry is full information that is either wrong or missing background information that would help explain things a bit more. it would have been no more difficult to contact us with your questions than it was to write that blog entry. we have a mailing list: plasma-de...@kde.org. the same text you wrote in your blog entry could have found its way there first/instead. i could understand if you'd asked and nobody had replied or we'd given you some unuseful reply. but you didn't bother to do that. instead of seeking out information from the people working on it, you instead spread your thoughts around to everyone who reads planet.kde.org and thereby driven down the total quality of knowledge available amongst the readership in general. that's unfortunate. to say that i'm disappointed by that is an understatement. as one kde developer to another i ask that in future you pay us the common courtesy of asking us about these issues before representing us, potentially with inaccuracy and harm, to the world abroad. to answer your concerns with the strip widget for Add Widgets: * that the icon names aren't fully shown is a bug, plain and simple. the person who wrote that widget left it in an unfinished state. i've since been fixing things as i have time to do so and there were rather more unfortunate issues than that one. it will get fixed, however, and has precisely zero to do with actual design as it's an implementation flaw. * you assert that there is a horizontal hierarchy. you are wrong, despite the use of three exclamation points. the tab bar at the top is actually a list of tags to filter by (consider "running" to see that point clearlyer). and for comparison: there was no hierarchy in the old dialog, either. so why a horizontal row of buttons then? because there is currently a bug in Qt that locks up the entire application solid when we use what would likely be a lot more sensible: a popup. when that bug gets fixed (or we come up with a better representation for the tags) then that strip will go away and be replaced with something rather more sane. * generic icons in the list: this was always a problem, and for things like the clocks they really ought to have little screenshots of the applet instead of generic icons. again, more work for someone to dive into. finally, i'd invite you to consider all the use cases for this listing: on the screensaver, on the dashboard, in plasma-netbook, for placing widgets on the desktop, for placing widgets on a panel in plasma-desktop. it becomes rapidly apparent during usage of the interface across these use cases that the old dialog with a vertical listing was really not great. -- 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 Development Frameworks _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
