Question about Plasma::Applet::setConfigurationRequired()

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday 09 February 2009 22:26:10 Gilles CHAUVIN wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wrote a plasmoid[1] some months ago when KDE 4.1 wasn't even
> released. It was full of those great hacks one had to do at that time
> to have something (almost) working when building against KDE4.0's
> Plasma.
>
> Now that KDE 4.2 is out I decided it was time to review my code and do
> some cleanup. One of the things I'm currently working on is porting my
> code from Plasma::Applet to Plasma::PopupApplet and also using the
> setConfigurationRequired method.
>
> There's one thing I don't understand about the
> setConfigurationRequired method. When I put my widget in a panel and
> it is not configured I have a pretty ugly "Configure..." pushbutton
> appearing. I did try some plasmoids that requires configuration
> (twitter, comic, LCD weather station) and they all display a nice
> "wrench" icon when in panel mode. The question is: Why is this not
> working for me ?
>
> Did I forget something ?
>
> FYI: The code I'm currently working on is located at:
> http://code.google.com/p/gmailnotifier/source/browse/#svn/playground/gmailn
>otifier-applet_refactor

Wild and random guess: try setMinimumSize() on your applet...
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sebas

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