Plasmoid installation in PA

[Bogdan Cristea]

Yes, the grid exists in Plasma 2, but due to screen size is less obvious,
while for small touch-screen it becomes a little too intrusive. Is there a
way to have the gris parameters changed in order to have closer grid points
or disable it completely ?


On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org>wrote:

> On Saturday 07 September 2013 21:44:56 Bogdan Cristea wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I had a look at new plasmoids installed on PA (Picture Frame). No
> > modifications are needed to be installed in PA, but when a plasmoid is
> > added to an activity it seems a little strange that the plasmoid
> > position and size are somehow limited to some discrete values, i.e. the
> > plasmoid cannot be positioned anywhere on the screen and its size cannot
> > vary to any value.
>
> That's on purpose: The Activity Screen uses a layout grid, and everything
> automatically aligns to that grid. That limits the placement and sizing
> freedom a bit, but in combination with the resource boxes and the
> imprecision
> of touchscreen interaction, Activity screens would turn into a real visual
> mess pretty fast if there was not grid.
> Btw: I've heard that Plasma 2 uses a grid layout for all workspaces (not
> sure
> if that's still true, though).
>
> > One more question. Where could I add the new plasmoids I find to work on
> > PA (e.g. picture frame) ?
>
> There is no offical way yet, but as soon as it's completely rolled out,
> Plasmoids will be made available through Add Ons. See also Aaron's Google
> Plus
> post sharing the release announcement
> (https://plus.google.com/107555540696571114069/posts/ffJp9rpTMZe):
> "The real story, however, is going to be in the months after this release
> as
> we roll out the content store management app for people who would like to
> participate by offering original content (apps, artwork, books, etc,
> etc.), an
> app developer support program and focus on hardware adaptations."
>
> Cheers,
> Thomas
>
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