[Panel-devel] trashcan applet

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 26 November 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 25 November 2007, Marco Martin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > another patch :)
> > it's still made against the committed version, so it's a little bit
> > big... changes made:
> > -initialization stuff moved to init() like you said
> > -when the applet is at the top of the screen and there is no room for the
> > popup over the icon, the popup is moved below the icon (maybe something
> > like this would be good also for kickoff?)
>
> yes, this needs to go into a generic method in plasma.cpp, really. just as
> we did with kicker.
i would say in the containment because the calculation could be a little bit 
different if the applet is on the desktop or on a panel
>
> > -now it looks like an usual desktop icon so it does not have the standard
> > background and has some text below the icon ("trash" and the number of
> > items in the trash) the problem is that the text is always black, so it
> > can become invisible over the background
> > -the text under the icon is displayed only on planar and mediacenter
> > formfactors
> >
> > maybe the last two points could make sense also for the launcher applet?
>
> yes, probably some opportunity for code sharing indeed.
maybe a base class for applets that use only one icon?
>
> > the problem with drag and drop it's still here (dragging multiple files
> > only one is "seen") but i noticed two strange things:
> > printing the text of the qmimedata all the dropped urls appear
> > and if i drop multiple files with the kde3 konqueror it works perfectly
>
> so ... you're saying that dragging multiple files from a kde4 app (which
> one? all?) is only giving you one url?
yeah, i tried with dolphin, konqueror and the file selection dialog

> p.s. will commit your patch right now.
ok thanks

Cheers,
Marco Martin