Re: applets descriptions

2008-09-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 04 September 2008, Gerhard Gappmeier wrote: > > you're mixing levels of the taxonomy. all Plasmoids are Widgets, but not > > all Widgets are Plasmoids. HTML/CSS can also be Widgets; Google Gadgets > > are Widgets; MacOS X Dashboard Widgets are Widgets, too. > > Not sure if I'm mixing it

Re: applets descriptions

2008-09-04 Thread Gerhard Gappmeier
> you're mixing levels of the taxonomy. all Plasmoids are Widgets, but not > all Widgets are Plasmoids. HTML/CSS can also be Widgets; Google Gadgets are > Widgets; MacOS X Dashboard Widgets are Widgets, too. Not sure if I'm mixing it? ;-) I know that it is possible (or at least should be) to run

Re: applets descriptions

2008-09-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday 04 September 2008, Gerhard Gappmeier wrote: > Hi > > Il Wednesday 03 September 2008 17:53:03 Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: > >> widget is becoming a common term for these little plugin type things; we > >> use the term in plasma because we support so many different types of > >> them that

Re: applets descriptions

2008-09-04 Thread Gerhard Gappmeier
Hi Il Wednesday 03 September 2008 17:53:03 Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: >> widget is becoming a common term for these little plugin type things; we >> use the term in plasma because we support so many different types of them >> that "applet", which is really technicaly jargon, doesn't apply. >>

Re: applets descriptions

2008-09-03 Thread Davide Bettio
Il Wednesday 03 September 2008 17:53:03 Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: > widget is becoming a common term for these little plugin type things; we > use the term in plasma because we support so many different types of them > that "applet", which is really technicaly jargon, doesn't apply. So we must ki

Re: applets descriptions

2008-09-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Davide Bettio wrote: > Hi, > > Il Wednesday 03 September 2008 15:38:50 Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: > > * Calculator > > [...] > > > these all seems good > > calculate simple sums... it seems to me: "hey, this calculator is able to > do only sums". i meant that these

Re: applets descriptions

2008-09-03 Thread Davide Bettio
Hi, Il Wednesday 03 September 2008 15:38:50 Aaron J. Seigo ha scritto: > * Calculator [...] > these all seems good calculate simple sums... it seems to me: "hey, this calculator is able to do only sums". > we actually use the term "Widget Dashboard" a few places in the UI we must pay attention w

Re: applets descriptions

2008-09-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Davide Bettio wrote: > kdebase: > * Analog Clock yes, this one sucks =) > * Application Launcher don't know what could make this one more obvious, really ... > * Folder View any suggestion? > * Device Notifier: new => plug? well, hopefully it expands eventuall

applets descriptions

2008-09-03 Thread Davide Bettio
Hi, I think that we should change some descriptions because current descriptions are quite unuseful or scarry: for example Analog Clock: "An Svg themable clock"... an user may exclam: "hey what Svg means? is it dangerous?". This is the list of descriptions that probably we have to change: kde