[Panel-devel] AppletHandle and dynamic size

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Percy Leonhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the network applet is able to change its size while it is displayed. The
> user can use the mouse wheel over the applet to change the detail level of
> information shown to the user. This is done by changing the size of the
> applet with setGeometry.

if it is just a size change, you should probably call resize instead (ignore 
that fact that currently resize calls setGeometry, it may not always be that 
way ;)

> At the moment there is no way to resize the handle as well or to let the
> handle know about the changed size of the applet.
>
> Are there plans to add this functionality to AppletHandle? - I think a slot
> that gets connected to the applet when the handle is created would be
> enough - or is changing the size while visible not a desired behavior for
> applets?

i think we'll need to support this, yes. patches anyone? =) at the very least, 
please capture this on the plasma tasks page:

	http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Tasks

so we don't forget about it.

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