Plasma Applet Direction

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 16 January 2009, Jamboarder wrote:
> > From: Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>
> > hmm... let's brainstorm on this ... things that are "global" plasma
> > settings:
> >
> > * Plasma theme
> > * install/remove widgets
> > * per-virtual-desktop views
> >
> > anything else?
>
> These are a little speculative but:
> - panel-follows-activity?
> - Activity -> Icon threshold for semantic zoom?
>
> hmm... after reading Marco's response about keeping settings dialogs to a
> minimum, what if these settings show up in a renamed/slightly-repurposed
> "Zoomed Out" mode?  Contextually, you're zoomed out so you're no longer
> activity specific anyway. And settings changes there could perhaps be
> interpreted, at least visually, to be more global.  Then, perhaps we could
> even move "Add Activity" out of the activity-specific actions into these
> settings (kinda odd seeing "Add Activity" on every activity when they all
> do the same thing that has nothing to do with that activity).

could be an idea yes, so a toolbar that shows up in zoom out mode with some 
toggle buttons and add activity..
maybe this could be a window (offscreen widget or just qwidgets we'll see) 
since is not immediate to show it not covered by panels if it's on scene...

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> Anyway just ideas...  Hope they're helpful,
>
> Andrew
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