Notify applet borders issue

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday 03 August 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Sunday 03 August 2008, Dmitry Suzdalev wrote:
> > Hi guys!
> >
> > At the moment I consider Notify applet to be in usable state and I want
> > to move it to kdebase (through kdereview) as Aaron suggested once....
> > But!
> >
> > There's one issue that I want to solve before doing this.
> > As I figured out - it's difficult to catch all people that I want on irc,
> > and often they're busy with smth other, so I'll just write to the ML :)
> >
> > Thing is that with current state of things (that came to applet from
> > ruphy's great mockup), bottom border of each notification is painted w/o
> > roundish edges. This gives a "stacked" look to the bunch of notifications
> > and is generally nice, but it works only in special cases:
> >
> > 1. Panel is 100% width
> > 2. Panel is at bottom
>
> Thinking about that it seems this thing will require a fairly big amount of
> code to make it look right, but i think it could be made to look so good
> that it's worth a try.
>
> for that i have a couple of ideas, i think i'll explain them better with a
> mockup:
> http://www.notmart.org/misc/popup_mock.png

i like having an arrow in the bottom/top most one that points to the source. i 
don't like having it visually separated from the panel, though, but i don't 
think it needs to go behind the panel either.

sounds like a job for extender, really.

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