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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: New widgets to plasma
From:       David Edmundson <david () davidedmundson ! co ! uk>
Date:       2017-09-15 18:46:36
Message-ID: CAGeFrHB2Djkx9KhU3mCUkwnBVVPBR9aoK7LmmxT-J7quF_J51w () mail ! gmail ! com
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Cool widgets, I've heard some users using them - Thanks for helping build
the Plasma base.

>There were some requests from users of various distributions to add these
widgets as official projects. This would allow them to reach more distros
-> users.

I think that's a problem in itself. The whole base of Plasma is about the
extensibility of 3rd parties, and yet ultimately we hit this every time.

In general I want to break down that perception of everything having to be
"official". Especially as ultimately it ends up with  us being burdened
with being expected to maintain (and in a few years port) a million billion
things.

Also, I do want us (upstream Plasma) to get into a better habbit of writing
proper public API QtQuick imports. Your active window control would be
easier for you to distribute if that wasn't for that C++ libdbusmenu-qt
plugin.
Separate to this discussion, lets fix that regardless.

---

That said, as for your things specifically:

The code's good. I'd love for you to join us as a Plasma dev :)

I think they're maybe too niche for plasma-desktop/plasma-workspace.
Especially the redshift.
but putting them in extragear (either as your separate projects or in
kdeplasma-addons), would be fine with me.

David

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<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Cool widgets, I&#39;ve heard some users using \
them - Thanks for helping build the Plasma base.<br></div><div><br>&gt;There were \
some requests from users of various distributions to add  these widgets as official \
projects. This would allow them to reach more  distros -&gt; users.<br><br></div>I \
think that&#39;s a problem in itself. The whole base of Plasma is about the \
extensibility of 3rd parties, and yet ultimately we hit this every time.<br>  \
<br></div><div>In general I want to break down that perception of everything having \
to be &quot;official&quot;. Especially as ultimately it ends up with   us being \
burdened with being expected to maintain (and in a few years port) a million billion \
things.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Also, I do want us (upstream Plasma) to get into \
a better habbit of writing proper public API QtQuick imports. Your active window \
control would be easier for you to distribute if that wasn&#39;t for that C++ \
libdbusmenu-qt plugin.<br>Separate to this discussion, lets fix that \
regardless.<br></div><br>---<br><br></div></div>That said, as for your things \
specifically:<br><br></div>The code&#39;s good. I&#39;d love for you to join us as a \
Plasma dev :)<br><div><div><br>I think they&#39;re maybe too niche for \
plasma-desktop/plasma-workspace. Especially the redshift.<br>but putting them in \
extragear (either as your separate projects or in kdeplasma-addons), would be fine \
with me.<br><div><div><div><div><br><div><div>David<br></div><div><br><br> \
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>



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