On Tuesday 24 March 2009, Fábio Firmo wrote: > Ok, so the main question is: Will be the dock a containment or a applet, > and why?
Containment (which is actually a subclass of Applet); why? because it will contain and lay out other items/widgets and probably wants to have a whole panel to itself including painting the background. > Making it a different containment will make a separation of the tradional > panel and the dock more clear (as opposed to the new Windows 7 bar), and > will possibly make the implementation easier (i'm thinking about parabolic > zooming right know). right > The downside seems to be that every plasmoid (clocks, > etc) needs a "third context mode": the desktop, the panel and the dock. not at all. and the "modes" are called Form Factors, which currently are: Planar, Horizontal, Vertical and MediaCenter. the dock containment would simply state how big and where the widget should be. what would plasmoids need to do differently on a dock in your mind? > This will bring more complexity to the plasmoid makers, and I cannot see > any diferences between a clock in a panel and a clock in a dock. me neither. so the widget shouldn't need to know. the dock would simply provide Horizontal and Vertical form factors as all panels do. > I already started writing the proposal. There will be a first version > tomorrow for your review. i look forward to seeing it. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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