>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
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.
On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 16:08:17 Marco Martin wrote:
> now, crazy usual crazy idea moment:
> funny thing, in qml it would be way easier to do them: we could have an
we talked about exactly this, only SVG+Javascript, at the kdelibs meeting
trysil ... yes, that one. way before 4.0. :)
some t
+1 for removal
with a small note - I don't think that extenders turned up to be a bad
idea - from my pov, extenders in plasma failed because of a few design
decisions (eg could have been dropped on an unlocked desktop and
nowhere else) and bugs :)
--
Cheerio,
Ivan
--
While you were hanging y
On Tuesday 15 November 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi :)
>
> after today's research and reflecting on the situation, i consider them a
> failed experiment. not a terrible one, but it didn't exactly succeed. i
> suppose it's the same thing as the old tear-off menus -> neat idea, few
> used them,
On 30/9-2009 23:24 Hans Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The Plasma notifications are extenders. They're stacked, and if you widgets
> are unlocked you can drag them to desktop[1] or stack them with other
> extenders[2]. (As you can see in the second screencast, the calender is
> also an extender).
>
> Wi
Hi,
The Plasma notifications are extenders. They're stacked, and if you widgets
are unlocked you can drag them to desktop[1] or stack them with other
extenders[2]. (As you can see in the second screencast, the calender is also
an extender).
With best regards,
Hans Chen
[1]
http://userbase.kde.or
On 30/9-2009 19:20 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> > Having read
> > http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/UsingExtenders I'm
> > still a bit baffled as to what Extenders are.
> > Am I right to believe that they are what you use when you e
On Wednesday 30 September 2009, Thomas Olsen wrote:
> Having read
> http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Plasma/UsingExtenders I'm
> still a bit baffled as to what Extenders are.
> Am I right to believe that they are what you use when you eg. want to have
> an icon in the panel that pops u
