hi ... the icon for the applet is off to a good start ... the look of it should harmonize with what is in krunner, folderview, etc. we have an item background svg ... in fact, we even have a Plasma::IconWidget that take care of most and maybe even all of the painting.
the info widget is also a good start. the info button in there is cool too. one thing that becomes evident is that we do need that screenshot. this means some support in libplasma, i think. this screenshot will need to be an image file on disk. for widgets that come in a Plasma::Package, this is easy to get. for c++ ones, we'll need a standard location for the screenshot to live. $APPDATA/plasma/screenshots? they can be named after the pluginName() with a png suffix. we can even make this available perhaps through Plasma::Applet::package(). it would fall back to the icon if there is no screenshot available. then we just need to spend a couple hours screenshotting everything :P hm.. maybe ... i bet i could do up a little app that would run the applet and save out a screenshot for us. it could rip through all the c++ applets and do this for us. if an applet needs config, it would check that, wait for it to be configured and then save a snapshot. that way creating snapshots would be a matter of running this little app and watching it do it's business, configuring something every so often (once configured, though, the applet should retain this through to the next run :) (i can write the above for/with you, as i'm supposedly the maintainer of libplasma and i don't expect you to fix _everything_ in plasma as you go ;) so, does the above make sense to you? basically you'd be able to take a KPluginInfo and get out a screenshot that you can assign to the icon and then pass into the info widget. in fact, the model can provide access to this for the icon/widget. ok, so .. now the placement of the info widget is a bit awkward. it mostly works in dolphin because there's a bunch of info shown there and moving focus from a file to the info doesn't seem mentally like such a big deal. for the applet browser ...... not so sure :) so here's my suggestion: let's use clickable Plasma::ToolTips. mouse over the applet and you get a tooltip. want info, click on the info button in the tooltip. this will work _really_ nicely if the icon list is in a horizontal or vertical list. thoughts? -- 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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