applet browser: laying out the applet icons

[Ivan Čukić]

> it smaller) adding the pab directly here (without repacing it upon add
> widgets button press) would make it 200-250 pixel high, wouldn't eat a
> bit too much space?

I think Aaron (just as we considered yesterday on IRC) meant to replace the 
content of the panel control bar with PAB.

>
> > for the desktop, we can just throw up a very simple panel style widget at
> > the
> > bottom of the screen .. if there's a panel down there, it would even pop
> > up the panel controller for that panel in add widgets mode. if there is
> > no panel
> > down there, just throw up this custom widget. this is trivial work and,
> > again,
> > something i or someone like me can put in place for you so you can
> > continue to
> > concentrate on the Add Widgets interface instead of learning how the
> > plasma- desktop shell is put together ;)
> >
> > this will also work nicely in a netbook interface, and i can even see it
> > working nicely on a small phone like interface where you can pick widgets
> > to run/activate by paging through such a list.
>
> yeah, it must be reusable in different shells (but they all must
> reside in workspace so? atm for testing i had to copy the sources of
> the current pab in plasma-mid nogood(tm) :)
>
> > all the control "chrome" (search widget, category picker..) can appear
> > above this listing. the category picker will be the tricky bit, i think.
> > but we can
> > discuss this more later (i think i'm already probably flooding you with
> > input
> > here.. sorry :)
> >
> > finally ... in the situation where we have multiple categories showing, i
> > think it would make sense to lump applets of similar categories together.
>
> having a list of toggle buttons that permits to check an arbitrary
> number of categories?
>
> > this would end up looking sth like:
> >
> > Category 1 						Category 2
> > -----------------------------------------------\
> > --------------------------
> > Applet Applet Applet Applet Applet     Applet Applet Applet
> >
> > the category label would be done in
> > KGlobalSettings::smallestReadableFont() and the lines would obviously be
> > the thin plasma lines we use everywhere.
> >
> > the Applet is, probably obviously, the full AppletIconWidget
> >
> > thoughts?
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