Ivan Čukić

dr Ivan Čukić

Author of "Functional Programming in C++", KDE developer and Free/Libre software enthusiast

For inquiries about KDE projects (requesting features, submitting bugs, asking general questions etc.), you can use:

KDE Community Forum
Bug reporting site
#plasma IRC channel

You need to contact me directly?

KDE related:
ivan.cukic [at] kde.org

Non KDE related things:
ivan [at] this domain

IRC Network: libera.chat
Nick: ivan|home
Channel: #plasma

Projects

Blog categories

Functional Programming in C++

If you like C++, you might be interested in my book. It contains quite a few gems of modern C++ programming.

It is available for purchase at:

Patronage

Applet Browser in libplasma

Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development: Plasma section, on 29 September 2007

The Plasma Applet Browser is now integrated into the libplasma and it will be available in the next Beta that is going to be published on Wednesday.

I’ve replaced the old drag-and-drop with a bit fancier stuff - now (as you can see in the screenshot) when you drag the plasmoids, you will be shown only the icons (possibly will be replaced by screenshots of plasmoids) not the whole “blue bars” you saw last time.

At the moment, you can add only one applet at a time by dragging, but that will be changed soon. If you use Oxygen style, you’ll encounter a nasty bug concerning the drag-and-drop-icons - there will be no icons, only nice shades of gray… but that’s not my fault.

Comments:

Diederik van der Boor
Cool! I'm really happy to see this kind of fine tuning happening! :-)
jospoortvliet
Nice work! We definitely need this for 4.0 to work well...
BTW Wednesday is tagging day, but release is one week later.
Hans Chen
Really sweet. Even if I've read about it before, and seen it "live". But hey, icons on drag and drop? Great! But screenshots - that would be purely awesome. Then it would look like as if you dragged the actual plasmoid, wouldn't it? (Although you wouldn't see and animations)
Oh. And I'm happy that you'll be able to add multiple plasmoids at the same time. :D
*svn up*
admin
<div class='ivan'> @Jos So it still will be Wednesday :) (I haven't said "next Wednesday" :D)
@Hans Well, I'm at the same time for and against the screenshots. There's no need to mention the "for" reasons, they are obvious.
The main thing that bothers me about screenshots is that transition between them and real plasmoid might not look good. </div>
tikal26
It is nice to see things are getting polish, btu you must stop teasing us with lancelot :)
admin
<div class="ivan"> Sorry, it wasn't intentional... (this time, at least) </div>
Applet Browser in libplasma « « pollycoke express »
[...] Browser in libplasma Ivan Cukic: Applet Browser in libplasma just in time for KDE4 [...]
anon
Why not place the categories list on the panel laying on the left of the main list ? This will improve usability (less clicks to find required applet) and will look quite pretty (categories can have icons too) !
admin
<div class="ivan"> @anon That was the first implementation, but in the name of usability, Aaron told me to get rid of it :) (and he is the Boss) </div>

Write a new comment...