On Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Monday 25 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > hi all.. > > > > > > Control Bar > > > ======= > > > this will contain a title for the current application and buttons for > > > home, put away and quit. it will also contain on the right hand side > > > the MID system tray, which actually won't really be a system tray as > > > much as a place for really small applets (battery, network status, > > > etc). > > > > > > Ivan has worked on a similar concept for a project he is working on; it > > > is in playground/plasma/applets/embedded-ivan/titlebar/ .. we should > > > look into Ivan's work here. > > > > thoughts on control bar.. > > should be a containment always on top > > either way we can fake this by simply reserving a strut so the windows > don't overlap. to keep it easy, we might want two separate Plasma::Views, > but it also might not be necessary. > > *looks at the Plasma::View code some more* > > hm. so we really have two options: > > * one View, one Containment, that has a bar at the top; this means we'd > have to special case: > * the boundingRect for the wallpaper so that it doesn't paint on the > full > containment, but the containment's rect minus the bar > * switching between sets of applets below the bar (launcher, dashboard, > in- canvas "apps") > > * two Views, two Containments: top View is for the control bar and icon > area. everything else becomes straightforward code wise, we just end up > with a few more objects to deal with in memory, though in context this > shouldn't be a deal breaker. > > the two Views is probably easier and cleaner.
kinda like more the two views thing, those devices are getting more powerful, i feel it more future-proof :) > > like a panel that contains 2-3 > > applets, ve talked about a kind of tabbar that switches, betweenthe > > launcher, a widgets area, running application list etc... > > yes... > > > so i was thinking (and half implemented) about a tabbar that switches > > between the available containments that are shown in the main view (heck > > this thing would be nice also in a desktop) > > a problem i have for that is how to reliably retrieve the main fullscreen > > view and not pick the wrong one, like trying to switch the containment in > > a panel :) > > this is obviously easer in plasma-mid as there is only one view and so we > can build in some assumptions. yeah, would like to make it more flexible btw, as i think i would use it even in a desktop :) > in the general case, you want to look through the containments for a > containment that is containmentType() != PanelContainment; just setScreen() > on one of them that has screen() == -1 and the rest will magically happen > for you. will try that :) Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
