Hello, After a discussion that i had with aseigo at the #plasma regarding the kdeplasma-addons repository i would like to share with you some of my thoughts. The repository exists for quite a bit,but it isn't very known which plasmoids are being there.Some questions that people can ask : Are there some extra plasmoids(official ones)? Are there plasmoids that being loved by the users and added there(unofficial ones)? Can the normal(not plasma developers) people add a plasmoid there?
What i want to say is to "promote" this repository. Now,more than ever there are some facts which can make this repository very popular.QML,Qt5(heavy based on QML),plasma active,contour and with the mobile devices becoming so popular, it is time to reconsider how we will use this repository. I propose to check the repository first and reorder it.We can create some extra folders like "QML plasmoids","active plasmoids",etc and organize the existing plasmoids better. Then with some blog posts to promote the existence of the repository and the ability of plasma coders to add there their plasmoids,something like kde-apps.org.In kde-apps.org everyone is able to add there his plasmoid,when in kdeplasma-addons repository only some "chosen" plasmoids from the plasma devs will be added. Of course if this happen,each plasmoid must have its maintainer who would maintain it.If it is being decided we can provide also a bugzilla for each plasmoid,but the point is the maintainer to be very active in order to avoid a second failure of the bugzilla.Moreover this action will be good for the entire KDE community,since KDE is frameworks and not a desktop enviroment(you know what i mean:)),this can motivate more people to get involvrd with the framework part of KDE and less with the desktop enviroment. I am highly interested in helping refactoring the kdeplasma-addons repository.(Of course if it is being decided.) What do you think? -- Tsiapaliwkas Giorgos (terietor) KDE Plasma Developer terietor.gr _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
