Review Request: an overlay effect element for framesvg

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 12 January 2009, Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
> > define "randomly"
>
> The idea for this case was that plasmoid A gets the same exact look every
> time but the bg of plasmoid A is diferent from plasmoid B.

does it matter what the widget is (e.g. "digital-clock") or just that it's the 
same for that same widget when plasma re-loads?

e.g. would it be alright to randomly pick a location for the applet background 
effect for each widget and then stick to that? or do we need to hardcode 
positions for, e.g., "digital-clock"? (that actually wouldn't work in 
practice, but i'll ask anyways to figure out what you're planning =)

there are five ways this could be done without being too crazy:

* hardcoded locations for different widgets. this could be done per-widget, 
allowing them to specify where the effect "looks best". in this manner, all 
widgets of the same type would have complete control over its positioning and 
each instance of that type of widget would look identical. this does remove 
some of the control from the theme designer as the widget would now be 
involved in saying where the effect should appear.

* random position whenever a widget is created. this would result in every 
widget having a (potentially) unique position, and this position would change 
between launches of plasma.

* random position whenever a widget is *first* created. this would result in 
every widget having a (potentially) unique position, but the position would 
remain constant between launches of plasma

* random position per widget type. this would would result in each type of 
widget (e.g. "digital-clock") having a (potentially) unique position, but all 
instances of the widget would look the same (so all digital-clocks would have 
the same look). on each launch of plasma, this random position would be 
recalculated whenever a new type of widget appears.

* constant random position per widget type. this would would result in each 
type of widget (e.g. "digital-clock") having a (potentially) unique position, 
but all instances of the widget would look the same (so all digital-clocks 
would have the same look), and this position would be maintained between 
launches of plasma until the configuration files were removed.

which most closely matches your vision of things?

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