launching applets

[Seb Ruiz]

On 17/08/07, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at gmail.com> wrote:
> hey guys,
>
> so for those who have tried out the contextview stuff, currently the way you
> add applets is using the swooping-out controlbox in the top-left corner.
> this is because its easy... it's coming directly from plasma. but honestly i
> don't think we want it in the final version of 2.0, its more suited for the
> desktop than in amarok.
>
> that said, i don't really have any idea of what a better system could be. so
> i'm completely open to ideas... ideally i'd like to write something up
> relatively soon, so feel free to just toss ideas out and i can try them.

Some considerations might be - how often do we want, or expect users
to change these applets. If there are going to be relatively static,
it might be wise to have a page in the settings dialog. However, I
don't think this is really going to be the use case. I imagine that
the applets will be changed regularly enough to warrant a faster
solution.

Without having put much thought into it, perhaps it would be useful to
have a menu entry with all of the available applets. These can be
toggled from the menu and can be categorised under different groups.
I'd expect all of the applets to be available from the menus, even if
they can't be enabled or disabled.

A context menu popup menu could be issued with a right click on the
view, allowing adding or removing applets relevant only the the
currently displaying information.

I don't know if a button to launch a manager on the actual context
view is a good idea, as i imagine that it would look cluttered and
impede on the functionality.

seb

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