I think that it would be *huge* *overkill* to have nepomuk’s ratings on this. Applets are not something that you’ll be adding/removing every minute.

As for other comments, I think that I’ve already answered them.

- a default icon could be used fro applet not having/providing icons. If all applets must provide a category, then you could have 1 icon for each category.

- Instead of having a favorite conept, you should instead have rating and integrate this with nepomuk ( which means you could use Nepomuk to also look for applet ). As said by Lans, rating stars should be used like in Amarok, and rating an applet should not select it. We could have a second colon for the rating and so the user will be able to sort the applets by rating

- We should have a recommend category which will list the recommend applets. This should be easily customisable by users/sysadmin/distribution. This way distribution may provide their own applet and with this category allow users to easily notice them.
The recommended category should be selected by default. Firefox ( for extension ), and mosts applets providers ( google gadget, … ) have this kind of category.
Recommended != Favorites, and may not be also the applets with the highest rating.

- Instead of using a plain blue rectangle, you could used a semi-transparent rectangle using the default plasma border with a shadow effect at the bottom. Do you see what I mean ?

- The search bar should be at the top.

- the PAB should allow to add applets too, so a “add Plasma applet” button should be added at the bottom. By clicking on this button, the user could add manually a plasma applet or use GHNS service.

- the latter reminds me that for plasma applet, we should defined an archive format to ease plasma applet installation from third party site.

FACORAT Fabrice

You could show the ratings other users give to the applets as well.

@Yousuf
Thanks for the screenshot. I agree that it’s fancy, but I don’t know if it would fit the KDE UIG.

@Bille
This is great idea… I’ll see what is the best way to have this done. (where and how to define the specials)

@arno
I’m constrained with the info that plasmoids provide. I can not instantiate every plasmoid just to get the screenshot. If the plasmoids would provide it, I would use it.

@Ricard Marxer
I have to say that I don’t agree with you for aligning or disabled-painting of the emblems because (imho) it would look overcrowded (later case) or empty (former case).

As for the glowing and other suggestions, it has been worked on at the moment. (yes, and moving the search bar too

Thanks for suggestions.

Just a few comments/suggestions of what I think could help:

- Align the emblems. The stars are ok but the others could always be in the same column.

- Another solution is to always leave the emblems there, but if they are inactive, then make them saturated and half transparent. This would be possible if only a few emblems are possible.

- If an emblem is clickable, make the cursor become a hand or make the emblem glow, or both. Just to make it obvious.

- I also think the search field should go on the top.

Hey, I send you these comments because I like a lot what your doing. Really, goooood job.

is a tooltip containing a small screenshot of the aplet on your todo list ? that would be neat.

Distros, organizations and other large deployers would love the ability to define their own ‘Recommended by’ category with icon, preferably without patching the code. Are the categories currently hard-coded or is this already possible?

cheers

Bille

Here’s a screenshot:
http://picasaweb.google.com/m.yousuf.ahmad/Dump/photo