[Panel-devel] Re: Plasmatic widgets

[Richard Moore]

I suspect we'll want the ability to 'clone' the desktop widgets and
bring them forward at times. But not as the normal state - for example
being able to bring a weather applet to the front of the desktop by
some sort of keyboard shortcut. This could easily be another instance
of the same widget however.

Rich.


On 6/5/05, Zack Rusin <zack at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sunday 05 June 2005 12:28, Ryan Nickell wrote:
> > Regardless, you're right that it needs to be better implemented to do
> > "auto masking".  Does Qt4 have an improved self masking mechanism
> > that will allow this?  My only experience trying to do this was using
> > createHeuristicMask() with pixmaps.
> 
> heh, easier than creating masks? "Widget shape follows mind" you mean? 
> No we don't have that yet. You can have anything simpler on widgets. 
> For plasma what I am contemplating on doing is simply implement desktop 
> composition. Where plasma "widgets" aren't real widgets but actual 
> parts of the desktop. Then for, lets call it, PlasmaWidget I can set a 
> clip path which would going to act as a mask. This approach has a 
> problem in that you can't bring a desktop widget to the foreground 
> (meaning it will have the same stacking as your desktop - underneath 
> everything). I'm not sure if that's a problem though since I don't know 
> too many people who want to run the desktop widgets on top of their 
> windows anyway.
> 
> Zack
> 
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