2 Minor Ideas for Plasma

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 30 May 2008, Thomas Georgiou wrote:
> Hi
> Here are my random thoughts about some aspects of plasma:
>
> 1) Resizing the panel vertically -
> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080529-hands-on--plasma-continues-to
>-advance-in-kde-4-1-beta-1.html "Although the new system makes it easy to
> change the panel's width and position, I couldn't figure out how to get it
> to adjust the panel's height—a task that was relatively easy with the last
> prerelease that I tested. This is a regression that will likely be fixed
> before the
> final release." - This reviewer could not discover how to resize the
> panel vertically.
>   2 ideas that could make it easier:
>      1) make the top of the panel draggable instead of the top of the
> configuration dialog
>      2) add horizontal arrows pointing to the place that is draggable
> in order to show that it exists (arrows = resizing)

yeah, was really surprised that nobody could figure out that, i was 
thinking "it's like resizing a window, what could go wrong?", but yeah, kinda 
missed the target this time :(
now it changes color on mouse over and has 3 little dots in it maybe it could 
help a bit,
putting the resize handle at the bottom should be really easy, but i kinda 
fear it would be even worse, i know i'm the only one on that, but it felt 
really more natural to put the resize handle after everything and so wrong at 
the bottom of the controller...
i maybe would try to put two of them, one on top and one on the bottom, don't 
know if that redundancy could help or hinder...
now with things so frozen what i think i can do is to move/replicate the 
resize handle and for the future i would resume the combobox with tiny, 
medium etc. that is kinda sad because i was trying to remove configuration 
buttons and then that thing will get filled of buttons but well...

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> 2) Some applets cannot yet/will not support some form factors like 3rd
> party widgets will not support panels and the dict applet does not
> support panels yet.  To avoid confusion to the user, it might be
> desirable for applets to have a list of form factors they support.
> Then, for example, when they are being dragged to the panel, the mouse
> cursor will change to the not supported action one (cancel icon or
> something) and the user will not be allowed to drag it to the panel.\
>
> Thomas Georgiou
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