[Panel-devel] sizes and applets

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hi all..

good news / bad news:

good news -> the applet handle now does the right thing and changes the size 
of the applet directly. this also means that the size gets restored properly 
between plasma sessions.

bad news -> we need to do some minor surgery to many of the applets.

the reason for the bad news is that many applets were either written before 
the size controls available in Widget or else they copied from these earlier 
widgets. whoops!

what needs to be done is for all the size variables that applets are managing 
themselves to be gotten rid of and instead use Widget::setSize and 
Widget::size() which does the same thing .. but allows things like the applet 
handle to interact with this size as well.

this would make a great junior job; i'm willing to go through all the applets 
myself, but it would be great if some of you would like to help out as well 
=)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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