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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: [kde-community] Applications in KDE Generation 5
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-01-16 11:01:09
Message-ID: 201401161201.09953.zander () kde ! org
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On Thursday 16 January 2014 11.42.43 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > * Do we need small utilities like KCalc as stand-alone apps, or do
> > they belong in Workspaces, perhaps as Plasmoids?  Where do we draw the
> > line between them?  And if there's both a Plasmoid and an App for
> > something, which goes in the main release?
> 
> Plasmoids do not need to "belong to" the workspaces. There is an
> Application  FormFactor that plasmoids can use as a hint for when to
> implement a full application UX and we have a stand-alone application
> shell. So KCalc could be a plasmoid and be able to put literally
> anywhere (desktop layer, Plasma Active grid view, panels, in the media
> center or as a stand-alone app) transaparently to the user.

Would that version of kcalc work properly if the user decided to use 
something else than kde-workspace? Like gnome.  Or Windows?

-- 
Thomas Zander
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