PlasMate previewer

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Yuen Hoe Lim <yuenhoe86 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I know this is probably better discussed at #plasma but I haven't been
> able to catch you >.< So I'll just ask offline for now.
>
> I haven't been able to make any sense of most of the to-do's you
> raised =( probably because, for some reason, I don't think I'm seeing
> an overlay on the previewer at all, and you sounded (and the code
> looks) as if there should be one. All I'm seeing when I run the
> previewer (from both the tester and the plasmate shell itself) is an
> applet on a wallpaper - no buttons or +s - and I'm not sure why =( If
> you want I can send you a screenshot.


Thats weird because I can see those buttons and use them. Anyway, lets hope
we find out what the problem is.

>
>
> I apologize if I'm making any newbie RFM mistakes >.< I'll try to
> catch you on #plasma again tomorrow.
>
> On 6/3/09, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 02 June 2009, Yuen Hoe Lim wrote:
> >> it =/ Can anyone give me some directions? :P
> >
> > well, there are a number of things that can be done with it...
> >
> > * the two large +s should probably be made a lot smaller and moved into
> the
> > corners
> >
> > * when the previewer is quite small, the nice overlay doesn't fit;
> perhaps
> > it
> > should pop up a regular QMenu instead? certainly not as pretty, but it
> will
> > work better in small areas
> >
> > * the middle button at the top should reload the applet when clicked
> >
> > * the control buttons should probably either shrink or even move out of
> the
> > view until the mouse passes over them
> >
> > * being able to choose the wallpaper might be a nice feature, and very
> easy
> > to
> > provide (see plasmawallpaperviewer in kdebase/workspace/plasma/tools/)
> >
> > * it needs to be wrapped up in a QDockWidget container and integrated
> into
> > the
> > plasmate application.
> >
> > you can find us in #plasma on irc.freenode.net most any time if you'd
> like
> > to
> > discuss things in "real time" :)
> >
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>
>
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