[Panel-devel] [PATCH] Applet Handles

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Michael Rudolph wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 November 2007 10:22:55 Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > On Mittwoch, 14. November 2007, Petri Damstén wrote:
> > > I would miss the resize feature if it's removed. How about adding
> > > setResizeEnabled and setRotateEnabled, those would be nice to have
> > > even if rotate & resize work as expected. Also using same button
> > > for resize and rotate feel awkward to me. When resizing applet I
> > > also tend to rotate it a little bit unintentionally.
> >
> > And it is hardly impossible to get the plasmoid back to the orginal
> > position, so users will rather remove and add the plasmoid again than
> > try to rotate, resize it into that old position. The latter would be
> > bad from my point of view. So there needs to be some reset.

not sure why you'd need/want to force a reset on resize. for rotate:

> how about a snapping mechanism at different angles of rotation? At least
> for 0 or 360 degrees of rotation snapping would be very useful, to
> avoid the problems Petri described.

good idea; patches welcome =)

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
humru othro a kohnu se
GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA  EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43

KDE core developer sponsored by Trolltech
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/panel-devel/attachments/20071114/2391dee9/attachment.pgp