[Panel-devel] Plasmatic widgets

[Zack Rusin]

On Sunday 05 June 2005 12:28, Ryan Nickell wrote:
> Regardless, you're right that it needs to be better implemented to do
> "auto masking".  Does Qt4 have an improved self masking mechanism
> that will allow this?  My only experience trying to do this was using
> createHeuristicMask() with pixmaps.

heh, easier than creating masks? "Widget shape follows mind" you mean? 
No we don't have that yet. You can have anything simpler on widgets. 
For plasma what I am contemplating on doing is simply implement desktop 
composition. Where plasma "widgets" aren't real widgets but actual 
parts of the desktop. Then for, lets call it, PlasmaWidget I can set a 
clip path which would going to act as a mask. This approach has a 
problem in that you can't bring a desktop widget to the foreground 
(meaning it will have the same stacking as your desktop - underneath 
everything). I'm not sure if that's a problem though since I don't know 
too many people who want to run the desktop widgets on top of their 
windows anyway.

Zack

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