On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Sebastian Kügler
<sebas@kde.org> wrote:
On Saturday 12 December 2009 19:51:51 Ravi Vagadia wrote:
> ah.. unfortunately i'm quite late for it to make into 4.4... anyway i'd
> release it as separate applet then.
Noooooo! Please don't. Releasing it as a separate applet will create lots of
confusion and problems:
- You need to backport fixes to the taskbar, otherwise you'll have two taskbars that
looks the same, one crashy with additional features, one stable without
- You'll confuse users and developers (which taskbar applet is being debugged here?)
So forking central plasma components is really a bad idea, even if the alternative
means waiting for trunk/ to open again. In the meantime, have your patch reviewed on
the plasma-devel list, there's a plasma group on reviewboard as well.
As to the patch itself. I think the new option looks a bit strange in the "Filters"
section of the UI, that could surely be improved.
> I'd definitely love to write more patches... and ya I'd definitely try for
> svn account once I write few patches
> thanks for encouraging words :)
If you want to write more patches (and want to help with making 4.4 awesome), we're
now in bugfixing mode. Pick a bug, fix it, put it up on reviewboard and have it
committed.
As Markus said, new features will have to wait a bit, but that doesn't mean that you
can't do something useful in the meantime. Even often bugfixing is a good way to get
started with a new codebase and become part of the team.
In any case, head over to the plasma-devel list. And welcome :)
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