On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Fredrik Höglund <fred...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 20 August 2009, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > > Recently while working on the FolderView applet, I got the question that > why > > isn't the user allowed to change the flow when used as a normal applet ? > > I've observed that when folderview used as the desktop Type, the flow > > options can be changed. But, these options can also be useful when used > as > > an applet imho. > > What do you guys think? Or has this been discussed already? > > There are two reasons why that option is only available in the containment. > > The first is that the flow controls which edge of the screen the icons are > lined up against, and I thought that option didn't make much sense > when folderview is used as an applet, since you can resize it and move > it to where you want it on the screen. Left-to-right or right-to-left is > also > decided automatically in this case depending on the user's locale. Oh, thats what I didn't notice. If those are decided automatically using locale its fine. > > So that option is hidden to keep the display section of the dialog box > (which is quite large already) from being cluttered with options where > the default should be good enough. Agreed. > > > The second reason is that folderview currently doesn't support showing a > horizontal scrollbar, so if the user switches the flow to top-to-bottom, > the user simply won't be able to access all the files in the folder when > there are more files than will fit in the view. I noticed this when testing the top-to-bottom flow in the applet, but thought it might be a temporary runtime problem at that time. Thanks for the clarifications :) > > > Regards, > Fredrik > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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