[Panel-devel] a few new rules for applets

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Sat Nov 24 23:58:45 CET 2007


On Saturday 24 November 2007, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> 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...

yes, the system tray is absolutely a special case.

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