[Panel-devel] the wiki needs some love

[William Egert]

Does this mean that the following patch should be applied to the digital
clock?

-Bill

On Dec 17, 2007 12:51 PM, Chani <chanika at gmail.com> wrote:

> On December 18, 2007 00:01:51 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Monday 17 December 2007, Chani wrote:
> > > I just had a look at http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/PIG and
> the
> > > amount of blank space there saddens me.
> > > if anyone has knowledge they can add to it, please do; it'll be nice
> to
> > > have a place to point people to when we get common questions like "how
> do
> > > I get notified when my plasmoid gets resized?" :)
> >
> > that should be in the plasma tutorials. one day it will be, i'm sure.
>
> obviously I need to explore techbase more; I wasn't aware such a thing
> existed :)
>
> > > I've added what little I've seen mentioned of layouting stuff; if
> there's
> > > anything wrong there please correct it. also, please forgive my
> horrible
> > > lack of formatting.
> >
> > hm. the PIG page is not where this belongs, really. it should be added
> to
> > the applet tutorial in the techbase tutorials section. the PIG is really
> > for interface guidelines, not coding how tos.
>
> ok... I'm not sure I fully understand what fits in what category, though.
> the
> blurb at the top of the page mentioned how-tos, so it looked like the
> right
> place to put stuff.
>
> >
> > > I'm still confused by the difference between size, sizehint,
> contentsize,
> > > and contentsizehint - can anyone explain which one(s) should be set
> and
> > > how?
> >
> > as an applet developer, you should always be using the content* methods.
> >
> > > I see resize and setSize being mentioned in posts here, but I thought
> > > that setting those would not take into account the applet border...
> >
> > setContentSize does.
>
> but.. then.. why would people be told to use resize()?
>
> anyways, having glanced over that tutorial... the sizing stuff in it looks
> strange.
> however, I don't really get what the Right Way to do sizing is... so...
> I'm
> going to ignore it for a few days and hope someone with more experience
> fixes
> everything :)
>
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