PlasMate previewer

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

I was wondering if we should have something like a CHANGELOG for
plasmate where we can put information about new functionality, and so
on. Is it possible ?

Regards

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Yuen Hoe Lim<yuenhoe86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Seems like I'm really not able to catch up with you on IRC, so lets
>> discuss it on mail till I get my exams over.
>> I think these points raised by Aaron should be helpful for us to make
>> our initial "goal" list :)
>
> Ok sure :)
>
>>
>> * the two large +s should probably be made a lot smaller and moved into
>> the
>> corners
>>
>> >> I think this should be easy to do. Give it a try?
>
> I shrunk the buttons in r983471 already :P Question now is where should the
> shrunken buttons go.
>
>>
>> * 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
>>
>> >> When I made the previewer small, and tried the current overlay menu, I
>> >> get tooltips when I hover my mouse over the options, so maybe no need to get
>> >> rid off this 'pretty' feature. What do you think?
>
> I think what Aaron means is that when the previewer is small, some of the
> menu items (for example when you click one of the +'s) becomes lost
> offscreen, since the overlay is only as big as the widget itself. I think
> there was some talk the other day saying we might want the previewer in a
> new tab? If this is the case then this shouldn't be an issue anymore I think
> since there's plenty of real estate in a new tab, so maybe we KIV this one
> until that is decided?
>>
>>
>> * 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
>>
>> >> You've in process of doing this I suppose. (Revision 983471)
>
>
> They work already actually (in r983471), though not necessarily in an
> intelligent manner given my experience with all this :P
>>
>> * being able to choose the wallpaper might be a nice feature, and very
>> easy to
>> provide (see plasmawallpaperviewer in kdebase/workspace/plasma/
>> tools/)
>>
>> >> Again, a light task.
>
> Working on this
>>
>> * it needs to be wrapped up in a QDockWidget container and integrated into
>> the
>> plasmate application.
>>
>> >> Not sure about this one right now (really not getting time :P).
>
> I'm not really sure about this one too. I think it is already presently
> wrapped in a QDockWidget in the plasmate application, but I don't have a
> clear idea right now how exactly to integrate it with plasmate (ie get it to
> actually preview the stuff that is being worked on in plasmate). I'd like to
> give this top priority if we can though, because I think we'll be in a
> better position to make design decisions and think of enhancements once it
> actually works. Maybe I'll try to catch Morpheuz on irc and fire him some
> questions :P
>
>>
>> Further, there some resizing issues when the Previewer is made larger
>> or smaller, or moved from one dock area to another. We'll have to sort
>> this out too.
>
> Ok
>
>>
>> I will try to get online on #plasma whenever I find time (during
>> 1200-1430 UTC as you told me).
>> Cheers !!
>
> Ok, all the best with your exams!!
>
> ----
> Jason "moofang" Lim Yuen Hoe
> http://yuenhoe.co.cc/
>
>



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