reduce duplicated ui's for session-picking in a KDE desktop

[Sven Brauch]

I agree with Andreas, since the recent change which increased the item
size it's a fine UI. Just the "play" icon is a bit off.

Greetings

2012/9/1 Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:59 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
>> On Saturday 25 August 2012 18:40:04 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was a tad bit confused today to see two entries in krunner for
>>> picking a session to start KDevelop with. After a bit of digging, its
>>> apparently due to the (by default enabled) setting in krunner to show
>>> plasma widgets which can be run in a top-level window. We currently
>>> have 2 pickers, one is in kdevelop/app/plasma/applet which is a plasma
>>> applet and another one provided by kdevelop --ps with a corresponding
>>> desktop files making it an 'application' found by krunner.
>>>
>>> I'd like to propose making the plasma applet not show up in krunner by
>>> enforcing that the applet is added to a panel or the desktop -
>>> assuming this is possible at all. The reason is mostly to avoid
>>> confusion, in addition the kdevelop --ps tool has more features for
>>> the sessions (shows the state, allows to start an empty one).
>>>
>>> Opinions? Comments?
>>
>> +1 but we really should polish kdevelop --ps as well... It's ugly as hell.
>> Something for the sprint maybe.
>
> Not sure what you're aiming at with that suggestion. I think its a
> rather simple and clean UI with just enough features to make it really
> useful. I can use it with mouse and keyboard very easily. The icons
> (even though mis-using the media-playing a bit) are rather clear.
>
> The only thing that might be good, would be improving the default
> size. Its rather large for the little content it has, otoh it also
> shouldn't be too small so its not lost in the visual clutter on a
> standard desktop.
>
> As for making the plasma thing not support running in its own standard
> window, I have no clue how to do that, but I'd assume it is doable
> otherwise the dedicated runner config setting wouldn't make any sense.
>
> Andreas
>
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