[Panel-devel] icons, files and the desktop

[Marco Martin]

On Dec 21, 2007 9:53 AM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 21 December 2007, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > on the desktop, I expect plasma to be smart enough to check whether the
> > mime-type fits to a plasmoid.
>
> yes, of course we already do this.
>
> > As an example, if I drop a picture or several
> > of them, they should become a picture-frame plasmoid, including sideshow in
> > case of the latter.
>
> this will take some use case research to figure out "best" practices. it may
> even make sense to offer various choices, so if you drop an image you get to
> choose between an icon shortcut or a picture frame or .. whatever. which
> reminds me, the picture frame could/should allow openning the image by
> clicking on it or some bit of UI? i think we will eventually need the ability
> for plasmoids to add actions somewhere on the hover handle.

maybe this could even replace the corner actions of Plasma::Icon that
btw at the moment are broken?

>
> > With desktop/recently used/favourite apps-applet enabled, i.e. the files
> > from ~Desktop are displayed as group somewhere on the desktop:
> > - File dropped on that group/applet -> it gets added
> > - File that has a matching mime-type and is dropped outside that group ->
> > put into the matching plasmoid
> > - File without matching mime-type dropped outside the group -> gets added
> > to the group.
>
> sounds about perfect to me =)
>
>
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