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Re: At last Plasma
by Troy Unrau on Sunday 25/Feb/2007, @17:09

You and everyone else :)

Plasma will get more coverage when things are ready to be covered. Mostly libraries stuff happening anyway at this point...

The problem with plasma is that it's hard to make the full switchover from kicker to plasma before plasma starts to approach kicker's level of functionality. And without that switchover in place, less people within KDE are exposed to the plasma code (as they don't get urges to implement things)... so once it hits a certain point and can realistically take over for kicker, then you'll see development accelerate quite rapidly.

(also note that much of plasma's design is centred around making it easy to extend by third parties... so the good extensions would not necessarily be around for 4.0 yet, but will probably start to pop up after 4.0 and people have had a chance to do new things with it. But coding this infrastructure is a lot of work and is taking up much of the plasma design time.)

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