[Panel-devel] [PATCH] Applet Handles

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Thomas Georgiou wrote:
> On Nov 13, 2007 5:38 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > hm. there seems to be lots of problems with rotating applets (AA, hover
> > appearance, etcx). it's really not a very important feature; i'd like to
> > suggest we disable it (by removing the UI for it in the buttons) for 4.0
> > and revisit it in 4.1.
>
> Should we keep the ability to resize applets?  

yes, this is a must.

> Right now, there are also some appearance problems. 

> First of all, when I designed the 
> standard background caching (should this be replaced with the new
> caching?),

it may indeed by unnecessary now; however, without caching we'd need to only 
paint the exposed area which would be more complicated.

> and Aaron confirmed that applets would not be bigger than 
> normal size. 

i did?

> Also, the standard background svg is just composed of 
> pngs.  If we want to have applets bigger than normal, we would need to
> fix this.

the painting of the background scales just fine. that's why it looks fine on 
applets of different sizes. this is not an issue.

> > we'll keep all the code to support it in place, we just won't provide a
> > way for users to access it right now
>
> What about providing an option for rotation.  For example, the frame
> applet needs rotations so it should enable it.  (Having different
> hover icons is not good).

yes, it probably makes sense to add a way to set which buttons get shown.

> Also, i thought buttons would be overlayed on top of the plasmoid on
> the bottom right horizontally...

why bottom right?

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