Notify applet borders issue

[Marco Martin]

On Sunday 03 August 2008, Aaron J. Seigo 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
> >
> > Otherwise it looks not very nice:
> > When 1. is not in place, you can see what happens here:
> > http://s58.radikal.ru/i162/0808/93/bc2797ab934b.png
>
> this actually doesn't look as bad as i thought it might. i'd say this one
> is a non-issue.

i think we can try to move the popup to not exit from the panel, should just 
be a matter for popupPosition() to take the containment geometry into account

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> > When panel is not at bottom things look weird too:
> > http://s52.radikal.ru/i138/0808/71/6900ef2a4391.png
>
> this is the one that looks a bit odd. the solution is pretty easy though:
> use the panel that is associated with the location() of the applet. that
> way the straight edge will always be pointed in the correct direction. the
> good news is that i don't think we really need to do anything special for
> left/right, just something different for top vs bottom.