> > some applets give you a data that can make sense in a small horizontal (or > vertical) strip, some other really can't, so an iconic representation is all > can be done, and even all that makes sense (think bout the start menu, you > really want it as an icon with popup when is in a small, always visible panel > and nothing else)
Oh boy, I didn't think panel size would have anything to do with it, I just made my panel a wee bit bigger and my device notifier turned into an actual device notifier! Thank you! Feel kinda bad that I had to be told, Now, I need to figure out a size to make the K menu fit into a panel. and I guess that tweaking device manager to not waste so much space is manageable. Should I file a bug for that? Also the information / preview icon in dolphin takes a large percentage of my screen, can they be combined to be a general bug? > so in the end how to react is completely decided by the applet implementation. > since the "becoming a popup" case was sooo commonly needed, a new convenience > class to do just that has been done (for KDE 4.2 iirc, so not -so- new :p) > that is PopupApplet, applets that subclass this instead of applet inherit the > same common features: > icons in panels, (horizontal or vertical formfactor) the full window in the > deskop, newspaper or whatever (planar or mediacenter formfactor) > if the panel is really big, so big there is room for the full popup, the > applet expands to the full contents in panels as well (this is rather useful > with autohide panels actually) > >> do this? Actually, I know that the pager plasmoid is active in the >> panel, It would be great to toggle if I want it to be a button to open >> the app, or actually have the app be in the panel, so when the panel >> opens all of my apps are there. (I think this is related, because very >> little behaves as expected when put in a panel, but behaves as >> expected when put on desktop...I've been thinking that maybe things >> just can't be put in a panel) > > if an applet doesn't work at all when in the panel is an applet bug. > but nowdaysthis doesn't happen that much anyore, also because that majority of > new applets are popupapplets. > > > Cheers, > Marco Martin > _______________________________________________ > 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
