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Re: About PIM
by jos poortvliet on Tuesday 19/Feb/2008, @23:54

I fully agree on the icon thing, I must say... Just one for all of contact, not several.

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Re: About PIM
by Anon on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @00:51

Complete disagreement, here - I want to see the number of unread RSS posts I have and the number of unread e-mails I have both at once, and you can't fit all of this info into one system tray icon.

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Re: About PIM
by Chani on Wednesday 20/Feb/2008, @22:16

which is why the system tray just... well.. sucks. it's an old concept and it's not working any more.
what we *really* need in this case is a kontact plasmoid. I'm sure it's just a matter of time before one shows up; akonadi should make stuff like that extra-easy :)

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Re: About PIM
by Cypher on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @01:00

The difference between plasma and the systray is that the systray is always visible and docked into a panel with other "always on top" things. I don't want to access the plasma dashboard in order to click the icon. It should just be one click away, with no need to use the keyboard (I know, that's the current trend : use the keyboard more... just look at the new kmenu replacements. But I am lazy, and I don't like hitting my keyboard while I could just use my mouse. I spend most of my time just using a mouse, with my left hand holding a pen and taking notes. And that's the way I like it, I don't want to be forced to use both of my hands... Erm... sorry for the digression :) )

I guess that the systray is not dead and plasma is not the perfect solution to every problem (even if it is an amazing piece of work).

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Re: About PIM
by Anon on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @01:16

"The difference between plasma and the systray is that the systray is always visible and docked into a panel with other "always on top" things"

Er ... you do know that the systray is actually a Plasmoid, don't you? There is absolutely no difference between a Plasmoid and something that can be "always visible and docked into a panel with other 'always on top' things".

"I don't want to access the plasma dashboard in order to click the icon."

You won't have to - just dock it in a Panel where you can always see it.

"It should just be one click away, with no need to use the keyboard"

See above :)

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Re: About PIM
by Cypher on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @03:03

Yes, right, I forgot about plasmoids in panels, my mistake :)

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Re: About PIM
by JRT on Thursday 21/Feb/2008, @09:59

This is getting OT since this page is about 3.5, but:

Widgets (KDE-4) could be much more useful if they could be assigned a hot spot at the edge of the screen that would move them to the top as with hidden panels in KDE-3.5.x

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