plasmoidviewer patch

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Thursday 13 August 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
> resize the window, then an handle should be implemented, then different
> plasmoidviewers should use different config files of sharing one in an
> intelligent way... kinda a can of worms..

configuration is absolutely the biggest hurdle here. the real challenge comes 
in supporting multiple applets of the same type.

one idea would be to run all the plasmoids in the same process by making the 
viewer a KUniqueApplication; then it would have one corona, one containment 
(that would just keep all the widgets in a layout that keeps them from 
overlapping) but a separate top level window showing each one.

then config becomes a non-issue.

i'm fine with the translucent background patch/idea, but to really give people 
what they want it should be a separate shell. it should be trivial to create, 
probably about the same size (maybe even smaller) than plasmoidviewer 
currently is as it wouldn't need to support switches for things like the 
background image, containment type, form factor, location, etc.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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