On Aug 16, 2011 12:09 AM, "George Brooke" < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 August 2011 21:49:00 Lasath Fernando wrote: > > > This sounds good, what I'd like would be to have a single plasmoid which > > > would add an icon (similar to the ones in your plan) for each > > > conversation which can be removed (say with a close button on the right > > > of where you have the pop-out button) when you've finished with it or > > > pinned into place to behave closer to your plan. > > > > I originally intended to have something like that, with the user's > > favourite contacts or active chats. I wanted to use the task manager > > or smooth-tasks widget, depending on how reusable their code was. > > But I decided to simplify things for the moment, and just build a > > widget that can handle a single chat (for the sake of making it > > doable). If I manage to pull it off and continue developing, I'll > > build the rest of it and keep what you said in mind. > Yes, something with a similar design to smooth-tasks was exactly what I had in > mind, however I seem to remember reading somewhere that the code for smooth- > tasks is not very maintainable. > > From saying that we'd like something similar to the taskmanager or smooth- > tasks, it occurred to me that rather than having the chat plasmoid as a > separate entity behaving in a similar way to the main taskmanager it would be > nice to have the plasmoid chat more-or-less dock with the taskmanager so that > (when focussed) they'd appear in the space where the thumbnail appears for > ordinary windows. Then if the chat was 'popped out' into the full window the > icon for it would still be in the same place but instead of showing the > plasmoid interface it would control the full window in the usual way. > I guess however that anything like this would properly be added to taskmanager > code (possible a new f.d.o spec so that it can be cross DE) then support added > to the chat UIs. > > Anyway, sorry for the really long delay to replying, is (the progress so far > on) your basic plasmoid available from anywhere public yet? And would you say > that its ready for other people to test yet?
No. It's hardly started. > > Thanks > > GeorgeB > _______________________________________________ > KDE-Telepathy mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-telepathy
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