KTp and Plasma Active

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 03 January 2013, Artur Dębski wrote:
> - The contacts list will end up in the split drawer as well. When drawers
> were created there was an assumption the applications will have only one
> drawer (if any), and it will be positioned on the right. In KTp Active it
> feels ok to have two drawers at the same time. The reason behind this is to
> give user a possibility to hide whole contact list to save space on smaller
> devices. However we will have to wait for this. This feature takes some
> work to implement and was not scheduled by PlasmaActive team.

this is a quick and dirty attempt of flipping SplitDrawer:
http://wstaw.org/m/2013/01/04/plasma-desktopVR5079.png

the look would have to stay that way, sidebar on bottom with blue background 
and content on top with white background.

it may work in some case and not in others...
maybe in the case of ktp would be worth having a custom component?
also because you would probably want different icons in the left and right 
handles.

i see some options:
* keeping it that way (the code of the drawer becomes a tad crappy tough)
* custom code to do the opening panel at the left
* keeping the splitdrawer api, but internally loading two completely different 
sets of code when doing left/right drawers
* keeping the left sidebar fixed, always open if the screen is big (ie more 
than x characters wide) and auto transforming it in an overlay drawer when the 
screen is narrow (phisical size or vertical)

last option would also involve flipping overlay drawer, and changing it on the 
fly isn't that easy but i'm leaning towards it from a pure design pov


Cheers,
Marco Martin