On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > http://reviewboard.vidsolbach.de/r/145/ > > and corresponding thread on this list with subject: > > "Review Request: PopupApplet iconify patch" > > because people will make the wrong decisions. in the submission for 145 it > says: > > " For example kickoff's is always shown when put in the desktop while it > would be nicer to have it "iconified" as it happens in the panel." > > like many things Plasma, this is one of those things people don't "get" > right away. why would you want a launcher constantly *iconified* on the > desktop? the entire *point* of having the menu on the desktop is to have a > launcher visible. 145, essentially, misses the point. > > so ... how to do it properly. well, your goal is to : > > * allow the applet to have its own paintInterface. > * allow the applet to not expand on the desktop > > i can see a few ways of doing that, but perhaps this is the easiest: i'm still thinking could make sense to give applet a function like showExtender() that makes a popup (and forcing to use extenders instead of something else), i see like two different things, like an applet that Has a popup vs popupapplet that is an applet that Is a popup and the popup function in applet could look differently in the panel or in the desktop, the clock for instance could look something like this http://nuno- icons.com/images/estilo/image590.png
could make sense to have both this approach and the popupapplet existence? Cheers, Marco Martin > have popupapplet support a null icon being passed into setIcon, which will > cause it to kill it's own icon. at that point, you are quite free to > reimplement paintInterface or instantiate your widget. > > the trick would be to only paint / create them in the "correct" > FormFactors, but that's not rocket science. > > this also provides a solution to "allow the applet to not expand": if no > icon is set, then PopupApplet can simply not switch away from > Plasma::Dialog. > > this preserves the "iconified in Vert/Horiz, expanded in Planar" pattern, > it allows for the clock to use it with no extra effort and it even allows > people to have an icon on the panel and on the desktop by jumping through a > bunch of hoops. > > so unlike p145, this approach would make the 2 things we want to encourage > easy and the thing we don't want to encourage tricky but possible without > it becoming hackish. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
