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Today part of "what to expect in 4.10 in QML components": Dialog. The Dialog components have been introduced in plasma since sone time, and are documented in the usual page. The components that may be used to create a dialog are:

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Last post was about a new QML component available in Plasma workspace 4.10 with an important design pattern that comes with it: Lazy loading everywhere when possible.

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What is one of the most important things while writing a QML UI? the answer is pretty easy: KISS.

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Today we have a new release of Plasma Active: quite some time passed since the last release last year.

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So, it seems it's that time of the year again... the plasmoid used in KDE Plasma Desktop to display notifications and the progress of transfer jobs started to really show its age, due to some bad limitations in the old QGraphicsview code to handle complex layouts, so it appeared quite buggy and not so smooth to use. Yes, I'm aware that sometimes it started to dance resizing itself several times in a row, and there wasn't much to be done on that regard... Until now :D

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Another small post about new developments in Plasma Active ;)

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Until now Plasma active had an on screen keyboard that served us well, but due to its implementation had some limits that couldn't be easily overcome.

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Sadly I didn't have much time to blog lately, but luckily today i found some time to do a screencast like the good ol' times.

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The thing we always stressed out in Plasma Active is how the system is designed to fit a whole device spectrum, even if the first two releases are explicitly about tablet devices (and in the near future this is not likely to change ;)

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Just a brief heads up. As you know, from now on the recomended way to write plasmoids will be using QML only, and using the new components api for common widgets such as buttons, sliders etc.

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