[Panel-devel] Two questions on Krunner...

[Matt Williams]

On Wednesday 23 May 2007 21:23:05 Niels van Mourik wrote:
> Op woensdag 23 mei 2007, schreef Aaron J. Seigo:
> > On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Niels van Mourik wrote:
> > > 1 - Why is Krunner rootless (withouth windowdec)? This seems a bit odd
> > > to me, it's probably for theming purposes, but still, it looks weird.
> > > One of
> >
> > it will look less odd when there is a proper svg for it.
> >
> > > the things I used alt+f2 for under 3x was for quick copy'n'paste
> > > something into the run dialog when something else was already on the
> > > clipboard.
> >
> > that's obviously not the use case for this dialog. we have klipper for
> > that.
>
> Obviously it isn't the use case (bad example) and I never got the hang of
> klipper ;) But my point is, a rootless window prevents you from moving,
> resizing (which shouldn't happen in Krunner's case) and minimizing.
>
> So you're thinking this isn't going to be a problem for users?

Of course, if you need to move it, you can hold down Alt and click and drag 
anywhere inside the window.

> > > 2 - Is Krunner using anything from libplasma?
> >
> > yes. AbstractRunner is in libplasma, as a matter of fact. it also uses
> > Plasma::Svg and Plasma::Theme (via Plasma::Svg).
> >
> > > 3 - Is anyone aware of the "Display() called...we are shown"-bug that
> > > is in Krunner for months?
> >
> > painfully aware.
> >
> > > I don't know how deep hidden it is, but I might want to
> > > take a few hours on the code for it...
> >
> > that would be very cool =)
>
> Well, I'm going to give it, with my limited skills, a try then. If I think
> I solved it I will ping you on IRC.

It would be great to see this sorted out. Thankyou for giving it a go.

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Matt Williams
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