Desktop containment question

Ivan Čukić ivan.cukic at gmail.com
Wed Feb 4 17:18:21 CET 2009


Hi,

Right now, there is no possibility to place widgets so that they go off the 
desktop edge. If you place them like that, they pop back in when the widget 
handles disappear.

The problem is not the first fact, but the pop-back-in behavior is a bit 
peculiar. Proposed solution would be not to allow widgets to move that far if 
they can not remain there later.

The second thing that (IMO) would cool is to allow the border of the widget to 
go out of the screen (or not to paint that border at all) but not the 
contents. In ASCII art, it would be something like this:

# is the border of the widget, | is screen edge, + is widget contents

Normal widget:

  |   #######
  |   #+++++#
  |   #+++++#
  |   #+++++#
  |   #######

Widget at the screen edge:

  |######
  |+++++#
  |+++++#
  |+++++#
  |######

Cheerio!



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