Re: libplasma2 and Wallpaper

2012-09-27 Thread Mark
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Thursday, September 27, 2012 22:02:02 Reza Shah wrote: >> And maybe some developer of certain apps like that qml wallpaper and >> want to offer that ability to their user. > > while technically possible, i hope no app developers actually

Re: libplasma2 and Wallpaper

2012-09-27 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, September 27, 2012 22:02:02 Reza Shah wrote: > And maybe some developer of certain apps like that qml wallpaper and > want to offer that ability to their user. while technically possible, i hope no app developers actually do this (with perhaps some exceptions such as, mybe, games

Re: libplasma2 and Wallpaper

2012-09-27 Thread Reza Shah
I've seen some apps use plasma. So i was thinking if the ability to load qml wallpaper can be utilized in other apps to expand their theme-ability. Not sure about concrete implementation, but one can create a qml wallpaper and share it. And maybe some developer of certain apps like that qml wallpap

Re: libplasma2 and Wallpaper

2012-09-27 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, September 27, 2012 20:36:39 Reza Shah wrote: > If it's not overkill, may be the new design can be used inside other apps. > Something like set dolphin background, set kopete chat background. what is the benefit of having wallpapers in random application windows? -- Aaron J. Seigo s

Re: libplasma2 and Wallpaper

2012-09-27 Thread Reza Shah
Hi, If it's not overkill, may be the new design can be used inside other apps. Something like set dolphin background, set kopete chat background. On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > but now we are heading to a QML centric world. i think it would be far more > useful to rip o

Re: libplasma2 and Wallpaper

2012-09-25 Thread Marco Martin
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> as the current, the lifecycle of the qml wallpaper should depend if >> the view wants a wallpaper at all > > yes ... this is something that could remain present in the Containment API > much as we done it in libplasma1 speaking of which,

Re: libplasma2 and Wallpaper

2012-09-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 11:31:06 Marco Martin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > we may even want to put support for these new plugins into the QML helper > > for Containment so that shells don't need to do anything at all. this is > > the design we have rig

Re: libplasma2 and Wallpaper

2012-09-25 Thread Marco Martin
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > we may even want to put support for these new plugins into the QML helper for > Containment so that shells don't need to do anything at all. this is the > design we have right now in libplasma for Wallpapers and Containments and that > part

libplasma2 and Wallpaper

2012-09-25 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hello ... Plasma::Wallpaper has a number of limitations that are a result of the times it came from :) namely, it directly paints using QPainter and forwards in a rather artifical means various mouse events. nothing else was really possible without dong the wallpapers in individual Containment