Applets - to maintain aspect ratio, or not?

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 13:12:10 Alex Merry wrote:
> Currently, resizing plasma widgets (are we calling them widgets or applets
> now?) by default maintains aspect ratio.  If you want to freely resize
> them, you have to know the "magic" key of CTRL.
>
> Lots and lots of people have told me this is (a) annoying, (b) not easily
> discoverable and (c) completely inconsistent with just about every other
> gui element (think windows, for example).
>
> So what do we think about making it freely resizable by default, and having
> a magic key (probably ALT for consistency with KOffice) to maintain aspect
> ratio?

Given that 'in theory' applets should be able to maintain a sensible aspect 
ratio, I'm for keep-aspect as default when resizing. I played around a bit, 
and often I resize applets. Then, in case the aspect ration gets screwed 
(which is really a bug in the applet), I press CTRL and change that as well.

I'm not strongly concerned about it, whatever works best for the casual user 
should be default though. (D'oh!)
-- 
sebas

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