[Plasma] looks and usability of applet handle frame

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 27 June 2008, Loïc Marteau wrote:
> Hello !
>
> Sorry if this has already been talked but i would like to open a thread
> about the frame draws by the applet handle.
> For people wo doesn't know well plasma terminology I talk about the
> configuration frame who appears when mouse is over a plasmoid so the
> user can resize, rotate, configure or move the plasmoid on the Desktop
>
> My personal opinion is that this frame is not very pretty and that there
> is not interest to make it an entire frame around the applet. So I feel
> that it disturbs the user visually and functionally speaking.

yeah, is really ugly, it was kinda on hold to eventually migrate at the new 
system with the native "windows decorations" off QGraphicsWidgets
it seems that there is some really ugly problem with qt (items child of other 
items don't paint the window decoration)
how is that progressing? someone discovered if "it's a bug or a feature"? 

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> Perhaps we can :
>
>     * just keep the small area who contains the icons, and add a move icon.
>     * better imho to a maximum reduce the visual pollution : add a
>       cashew for that ! on the top right corner of each applets
>           o The cashew let appears icons and text for each possible
>             action when mouse is over the cashew and not on mouse click
>             so we don't need to make one more click than before for
>             doing the same thing.
>           o Like first solution, add a move icon.
>     * Other ideas...
>
> What do you think about ?
>
> Cheers !
>
> Loic
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