[Panel-devel] a few new rules for applets

Jason Stubbs jasonbstubbs at gmail.com
Sat Nov 24 18:05:07 CET 2007


On Sunday 25 November 2007 01:01:42 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> - 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.

Is the system tray a suitable special case? It can't really make use of extra 
space other than to add padding around itself...

-- 
Jason Stubbs


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