On Thursday, 2014-01-16, 10:43:42, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > We’ve had plasma-windows for ages now which runs plasmoids in their own > independent window like a mini application. For apps like ksnapshot and > kcalc the results would be identical or nearly so (kcalc would require > support for putting a menu[bar] somewhere, or reorganizing how those > particular features are presented).
I also thought about plasma-windowed when reading that :) However, I think it is one of those "hidden gems" that nobody knows about. I've had questions like "can I run $applet stand-alone" on the user support lists a couple of times and plasma-windowed was the answer. Its drawback currently is that it is not very easy to figure out what to pass as its commandline argument. > We also have an “application” form factor for plasmoids for ~1 year now > which allows these components to make useful adjustments between being > embedded as a plasmoid component and being run as a top-level window. Wow, nice! I don't think I've ever heard about this before and I am even monitoring plasma-devel. > I don’t think it makes huge amounts of sense to turn ksnapshot into a > plasmoid, but KCalc probably would as it would give us feature parity > between the version on the desktop (and panels). Right now we have 2 > calculators with differing features and levels of maintenance. I think these kind of convergences will become more natural once we can do traditional UI with QML (either through QtQuick.Controls or DeclarativeWidgets). Using the same application logic both for stand-alone application as well as Plasma applet becomes trivial then. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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