kickoff regressions

[Marijn Kruisselbrink]

On Monday 01 September 2008 01:49:33 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Sunday 31 August 2008 23:08:22 Davide Bettio wrote:
> > Il Sunday 31 August 2008 19:06:01 Sebastian Kügler ha scritto:
> > > But I need to show of my amateurish painting skills as well! I think it
> > > would look much nicer if the kickoff PanelSvg didn't have the border
> > > towards the panel and the screen's edge. This would make the hitarea on
> > > the left hand side easier to find, and also make it clearer that the
> > > menu actually comes out of the panel. Right now it looks disconnected
> > > and positioned "somewhat close" to its trigger (the kickoff button).
> > > I've sketched this in illustration (1).
> > >
> > > An alternative would be to just have it grow out of the panel (as seen
> > > in illustration 2).
> >
> > uhm... this kind of things is mainly related to PopupApplet and not to
> > kickoff (so this ideas will apply also to device notifier and others
> > PopupApplets). it seems also a quite complex task to do...
> > uhm... anyone has got any opinion about that?
>
> Thinking about it, it shouldn't be hard to do. We can just align the
> contentsRect of PopupApplet to the screen's edge, so the left border is
> painted offscreen and the content aligns nicely with the screen's edge.
> Additionally, I think this would even be 'correct' behaviour, since it
> should also align applets that have their own background (and borders)
> nicely with the popup.
Won't that approach fail with multi-screen setups, where the part that should 
not be drawn might end up being drawn on the other screen?

Marijn