Review Request 118538: Add a property containing the real edge a dialog is shown on

[David Edmundson]

> On June 4, 2014, 7:30 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
> > what is a valid use case where qml needs to know where the dialog actually is?(not hypothetical please)
> > doing the animation on the proper direction can be tracked completely internally
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> > also, plasmoids should never ever do a screen edge animation when in the middle of the desktop, the animation looks bad where it's clipped if it's not against a panel or a screen edge

Milou places the most relevant item closest to the launcher.


- David


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On June 4, 2014, 7:07 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated June 4, 2014, 7:07 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-framework
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> Description
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> Add a property containing the real edge a dialog is shown on.
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> If a dialog is meant to be shown on the left of an item, if there is not
> enough space it will be shown on the right.
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> We need to keep track of where we're actually shown in order to show the
> correct borders and perform the animation in the correct direction.
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> It is exposed as a property in case the dialog itself needs to know
> which side of the parent item it is, for example if needs to show an
> arrow to the parent.
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> Fixed some serious copy + paste fails in the hitting the bottom edge of
> the screen check.
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> Diffs
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>   src/plasmaquick/dialog.h 4009222 
>   src/plasmaquick/dialog.cpp 2f8227c 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118538/diff/
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> Testing
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> Ran dialog_positioning.qml in all 8 combinations of edges + preferred locations.
> (i.e placed near left edge, showed item with location set to both left and right)
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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