From kde-panel-devel  Sat Oct 20 03:56:58 2007
From: Chani <chanika () gmail ! com>
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:56:58 +0000
To: kde-panel-devel
Subject: Re: [Panel-devel] Applet Manager Dialog
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> > > > Widget, applet, gadget... Why not plasmlet? ;)
> > >
> > > So what do users see? We need to be consistent so that users won't get
> > > confused.
> >
> > I'd say:
> > plasmoid: word for the masses
> > applet: tecnical word for developer (like... we subclass from
> > Plasma::Applet)
>
> +1
> 'plasmoid' is just too cool, we must let the users see that name ;-)

I think you're right. :)

in technical terms, we have an applet, which may have several widgets on it=
=20
(including layout widgets).
the average user doesn't make such distinctions, though, so I think each th=
ing=20
you can drag from the appletbrowser should be called a plasmoid.

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