[Panel-devel] KRunner Options

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Mon Mar 12 17:32:48 CET 2007


On March 11, 2007, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> On Saturday 10 March 2007 08:10:59 fonz2591 wrote:
> > A while back I came across the "ear", which is a hack to have an animated
> > widget come out the side of a window, similar to OS X.
> > It can be found here: http://metin.org/weblog/2007/03/06/34/
> >
> > I think that this is the best way for KRunner to present options to the
> > user, or at least in a similar manner.
>
> How would that work if the window is maximized? Many, many people run with
> all their windows maximized most of the time.

agreed; personally i think such windows are actually much more useful for 
dialogs (print, save, open, etc).

that said, since this is about krunner, it's completely appropriate since the 
window is quite small and isn't meant to be maximized.


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