plasmoidviewer patch

[Chani]

On August 11, 2009 06:23:44 Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> Taking inspiration from a number of wishes on bko i've come up with a
>  trivial patch for plasmoidviewer which adds a commandline option which
>  sets the background of the window to be translucent. This in principle
>  allows to have a plasmoid floating around on the desktop as a real window,
>  and looking as nice as a plasmoid (with composite enabled and noborders).
>  It has the drawback of allowing a user to break plasma, by having
>  standalone plasmoids which don't belong to regular containments, won't
>  show up in the dashboard, etc etc. However, I've already seen a couple of
>  wishes that pretty much requested the ability to break the concept and to
>  put plasmoids in foreground. Even if I don't feel it useful (although
>  there's a whole lot of things which I don't feel useful but people use
>  them on a daily basis) I'd like to hear from you if I should even put it
>  up on the reviewboard. In my opinion such option would be enough hidden
>  from the average user and would basically only be used by some diehard
>  hackers who then will not complain if things don't behave as expected, so
>  it would be basically harmless.

ok, put it on reviewboard.

so long as plasmoidviewer remains useful as a developer tool. :)

my concern, though, is that this patch will result in requests for more of the 
same. although there are things that could be improved in plasmoidviewer 
that'd also help developers, I guess.

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