On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 6:42 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote:
> On April 8, 2010, Christophe Olinger wrote: > > One thing missing is the layout of the actual subComponents in the > applets. > > Currently they are just added in a row. For this we need the API. The > > layout should recognize which type of applet arrives and lay it out > > accordingly. That means lots of if/thens within tha applet code. This > also > > means adding new states with new subcomponents would mean adding if/tehns > > to the actual addToLayout functions in the applets. > > what i'd recommend is to provide a way to tag subcomponents with values > (e.g. > an enum) that says something about what they do. > > divide up each MainComponent into "zones" (navigation, media playing, > status, > whatever :) and then each sub component can be tagged by the creator of the > sub component (e.g. a state) with what it is. > > then the main components will know which zone they belong in. > > from there, i'd go with a naive implementation, at least at first, that > just > puts things into the respective zones on a first-come-first-placed basis. > > this alleviates the needs for if/else and odd interactions between state > plugins and the main components that need to lay out a plugin's custom sub > components. > > -- > Great suggestion. Exactly what I had in mind :-). I'll try to hack on that in the coming days. First finding the cause of this stupid medialyout error :-/ Propably some wrong includes or declarations. I'll also apply for an SVN account. Lots of thanks to all of you for the motivation. Cheers, Chris
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