>From a user's POV, I second what Ivan wrote. I still think it was a neat idea but there were several reasons why I didn't use extenders:
1. Crash-prone. Plasma would often crash when playing around with them (the Extender section in Plasma HowTo was, hands down, the hardest section to record due to frequent crashes. This was in <=4.5 though). 2. Discoverability. In the original mockups it looked like the popup "grew out" of the panel, it had a colorful titlebar and it would detach from the panel if you clicked/dragged the bar. 3. Implementation. The fact that you had to unlock your widgets to drag extenders rendered them completely useless to me and probably a lot of other users. I would've preferred if they could "float" on the desktop, not affecting other widgets - this would be useful for other widgets as well, such as Notes, BbalL etc. OK, enough ranting. :) In short I think very few users know about this feature, and even fewer would miss it if it was removed. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 13:43, Sebastian Kügler <se...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 16:08:17 Marco Martin wrote: > > > so ... i'd like to propose that we kill Extender, ExtenderItem and > > > ExtenderGroup in libplasma2. > > > > i say kill it. > > > > to me extender is the typical "seemed a good idea at the time" > > My thoughts exactly. :) > > +1 for killing them. > -- > sebas > > http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >
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