On March 10, 2010, todd rme wrote: > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > >> If someone did this, would you accept the patch? I described a > > > > sure; i'd recommend doing it as a proof-of-concept first in a new > > Containment plugin, so that it isn't bumping into existing layout code. > > it would make it easier to test and work on strategies. > > I can do that, I think.
cool. :) > > for testing, i'd also recommend using something like plasmoidviewer: a > > simple one-window app that is a Plasma::View which loads a Corona and > > this new Containment. it could then have some controls on it to change > > the size of the window to different common screen resolutions (maybe a > > toolbar with some buttons?). this would allow easy testing, and > > shouldn't be more than a hundred or so LOC. > > Wouldn't it be easier to just use a virtual machine and resize the > machine arbitrarily? what i suggested gives the same benefit, only without requiring a whole VM t run it in. with a simple app that resizes its window, you can create any set of sizes wanted and it would be far easier for others to test this way as well. > > or perhaps the desktop layout could use an anchor style layout with the > > ratio to the edges or other landmarks being used. > > That would be a solution, but I think that would require much more > major changes, at least to the plasma configuration files. I was not really; what is in the configuration files is simply the resulting geometry. how that geometry is arrived at is completely up to the containment. -- 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 Development Frameworks _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
