[Panel-devel] [PATCH] Applet Handles

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello list,

After sleep less nights fighting with my misunderstanding of the almighty 
QGraphicsView and QTranform, after horrendous stabbing in the dark... I think 
I've seen the light! I've been touched by the grace of the great graphics 
ninja master and produced the attached patch.

Brothers, I've made a dream:
 - No horrible context menu anymore
 - No "size" setting duplicated in applet configuration anymore
 - No random moving of applets by mistake

Let me introduce you the "Applet Handle 2007"(tm)! Basically it's stealing the 
idea of the live transform from the frame applet and generalizes it for more 
wet dream and fame.

On applet hover, if the applet is on the desktop, a frame appears slowly in 
technicolor(tm) with controls to move, configure, remove or rotatandresize 
the aformentioned applet. When the cursor leave this frame, fading to black, 
they lived happy and got lot of children, the end, thank you.

And now, I need a real sleep probably with dreams about fame, ninjas stabbing 
in the dark and flying with QTransform objects... *plop*

Regards.

PS: If anything in this mail made sense for you feel free to take a look at 
the patch, test it, be excited and brain damaged like me.
PPS: Yes I know it can be sloppy with some of our applets which are even more 
braindamaged than me.
PPPS: Just in case that not completely crazy, you can tell me I can commit 
it... be careful I've the finger on the trigger.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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