On Monday 12 January 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday 12 January 2009, Nuno Pinheiro wrote: > > > define "randomly" > > > > The idea for this case was that plasmoid A gets the same exact look every > > time but the bg of plasmoid A is diferent from plasmoid B. > > does it matter what the widget is (e.g. "digital-clock") or just that it's > the same for that same widget when plasma re-loads? > > e.g. would it be alright to randomly pick a location for the applet > background effect for each widget and then stick to that? or do we need to > hardcode positions for, e.g., "digital-clock"? (that actually wouldn't work > in practice, but i'll ask anyways to figure out what you're planning =) > > there are five ways this could be done without being too crazy: > > * hardcoded locations for different widgets. this could be done per-widget, > allowing them to specify where the effect "looks best". in this manner, all > widgets of the same type would have complete control over its positioning > and each instance of that type of widget would look identical. this does > remove some of the control from the theme designer as the widget would now > be involved in saying where the effect should appear.
in metadata.desktop? wouldn't be a bit excessive? > * random position whenever a widget is created. this would result in every > widget having a (potentially) unique position, and this position would > change between launches of plasma. hmm, fear it would look messy and most important it would kill the cache > * random position whenever a widget is *first* created. this would result > in every widget having a (potentially) unique position, but the position > would remain constant between launches of plasma maybe two digital clock is better they look the same? not sure about that > * random position per widget type. this would would result in each type of > widget (e.g. "digital-clock") having a (potentially) unique position, but > all instances of the widget would look the same (so all digital-clocks > would have the same look). on each launch of plasma, this random position > would be recalculated whenever a new type of widget appears. > > * constant random position per widget type. this would would result in each > type of widget (e.g. "digital-clock") having a (potentially) unique > position, but all instances of the widget would look the same (so all > digital-clocks would have the same look), and this position would be > maintained between launches of plasma until the configuration files were > removed. > > which most closely matches your vision of things? how would random positions depending from the type being calculated without the applet name? (non i didn't particurarly like the approach of going hunting applet name in the parent, just couldn't come up with a saner thing :/) could be still using the applet name but only for indicizing a generated random number? (in a config file? hmm) Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
