KDE/kdebase/workspace/plasma/containments/folderview

[Riccardo Iaconelli]

On 5/24/08, Sebastian Kuegler <sebas at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 24 May 2008 14:53:38 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> > SVN commit 812032 by ruphy:
> >
> > Before we make a contaiment out of it (are we going to make it for 4.1
> with
> > the freeze?),
>
>
> It's in containments/ right now, but it's derived from Applet. We can
> probably
> derive it from Containment instead, but it won't buy us anything as far as
> I
> can see.
>
>
> > and we're able to choose it, at least add an option to make
> > folderview's background transparent, so it doesn't hurt your eyes. ;-)
> Not
> > sure about what doing by default, but I guess I'll keep it opaque (as it
> is
> > now), so people understand that is a plasmoid.
>
>
> > BUG: 162526
>
>
> Funny. Yesterday on the train, I did exactly the same (making the
> background
> optional). The problem with no background is that z ordering becomes messy
> (applets behind it are visible, you cannot focus them because the
> transparent
> folderview is in front of them. Also, without background, it's unclear
> where
> you can drag those fileicons and where you can't, it's seemingly random.
>
> I thought a bit about it, the z order of the folderview should probably be
> very low (i.e. "behind" all other applets), and the folderview should be
> full
> screen to solve those issues).
>
> But yeah, string freeze, so at least the UI option is a no-go at this
> point.
> It's debatable wether it's a feature though (I think it is).
>
> This reassures me that we need some kind of plasma upstream repo where we
> can
> submit our new features that cannot go into trunk/ right now.
>
eheh, agreed. ;-)

Shall I make a git repo on gitorious? :D

And, this feature really needs some thinking....

Bye,

-Riccardo
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