> it smaller) adding the pab directly here (without repacing it upon add > widgets button press) would make it 200-250 pixel high, wouldn't eat a > bit too much space?
I think Aaron (just as we considered yesterday on IRC) meant to replace the content of the panel control bar with PAB. > > > for the desktop, we can just throw up a very simple panel style widget at > > the > > bottom of the screen .. if there's a panel down there, it would even pop > > up the panel controller for that panel in add widgets mode. if there is > > no panel > > down there, just throw up this custom widget. this is trivial work and, > > again, > > something i or someone like me can put in place for you so you can > > continue to > > concentrate on the Add Widgets interface instead of learning how the > > plasma- desktop shell is put together ;) > > > > this will also work nicely in a netbook interface, and i can even see it > > working nicely on a small phone like interface where you can pick widgets > > to run/activate by paging through such a list. > > yeah, it must be reusable in different shells (but they all must > reside in workspace so? atm for testing i had to copy the sources of > the current pab in plasma-mid nogood(tm) :) > > > all the control "chrome" (search widget, category picker..) can appear > > above this listing. the category picker will be the tricky bit, i think. > > but we can > > discuss this more later (i think i'm already probably flooding you with > > input > > here.. sorry :) > > > > finally ... in the situation where we have multiple categories showing, i > > think it would make sense to lump applets of similar categories together. > > having a list of toggle buttons that permits to check an arbitrary > number of categories? > > > this would end up looking sth like: > > > > Category 1 Category 2 > > -----------------------------------------------\ > > -------------------------- > > Applet Applet Applet Applet Applet Applet Applet Applet > > > > the category label would be done in > > KGlobalSettings::smallestReadableFont() and the lines would obviously be > > the thin plasma lines we use everywhere. > > > > the Applet is, probably obviously, the full AppletIconWidget > > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
