[Panel-devel] a few new rules for applets

[Aaron J. Seigo]

hi...

there are a few things applets need to abide by:

- never do anything that assumes the applet is set up in the plasma 
environment in the constructor. all of those things should go into init(). 
this includes, in particular, reading configuration values and accessing 
either the containment or the corona.

- never re-implement contentSizeHint unless there is a really, really good 
reason to do so. because unless the applet is extra careful, it will break 
free-resizing. instead, set a default size in the constructor or in init() 
and the adjust contents to the size of the applet.

i've made these changes for the applets in kdebase/workspace/plasma/applets, i 
have yet to go over the ones in extragear.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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