plasmoidviewer patch

[Jacopo De Simoi]

On Thursday 13 August 2009 20:36:04 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 August 2009, Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 August 2009 19:39:01 Chani wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > That's precisely my concern too.
> 
> yeah, altough is a nice feature then wouldn't be trivial to see how to resize 
> the window, 

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