[Panel-devel] [Bug 154547] error applets: resizing and rotating does not work correctly

[William M.Hilton]

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------- Additional Comments From wmhilton gmail com  2007-12-24 01:28 -------
Confirmed in KDE4Daily (SVN r751864). It is an applet-by-applet problem. Resizing most applets simply resizes the border, but the content merely gets cropped. The clock applets are a notable exception. Examples of applets that don't resize their content are: Comic Strip, aKademy Group Photo, Calculator, Hardware Info, Dictionary, Show Desktop. Network Monitor does not resize at all - it resets the border to it's original size. Notes resizes it's image, but not the editable area.

Applets that seem to be resizing and rotating well are all the clocks, Color Picker, Fifteen Puzzle, Hard Disk Monitor, Icon, New Device Notifier, Pager, Picture Frame.

I'm too tired to test them all, but you get the idea.

Regarding rotation: Most applets seem to rotate properly. However, when you hover over the applet, the clearish box containing the resize, config, and close buttons does not appear rotated like the applet. I don't know if that is a design decision, but it seems un-ideal, because it can result in some awkwardly huge borders when applets are rotated 45 degrees.

Such a applet defined minimum size limit is obviously an excellent idea for ALL applets, because it becomes impossible to reasonably display some plasmoids beyond a certain pixel size. (E.g. nothing is useful at 2 px, an launcher icon may be ok at 10px, while the calculator would still be useless at that size.) Obviously, I think the size limit is a little large for icons (80 pixels?) though.