applet browser widget: the icon and the info

[Ana Cecília Martins Barbosa]

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Hi again! :)

(i can write the above for/with you, as i'm supposedly the maintainer of
> libplasma and i don't expect you to fix _everything_ in plasma as you go ;)


That would be great great great!

so, does the above make sense to you? basically you'd be able to take a
> KPluginInfo and get out a screenshot that you can assign to the icon and
> then
> pass into the info widget. in fact, the model can provide access to this
> for
> the icon/widget.


Yes, makes all the sense! If the screenshot ever exists, will be as easy as
writing its name. Wonderful!

for the applet browser ...... not so sure :)
>
> so here's my suggestion: let's use clickable Plasma::ToolTips. mouse over
> the
> applet and you get a tooltip. want info, click on the info button in the
> tooltip. this will work _really_ nicely if the icon list is in a horizontal
> or
> vertical list.


Is it really doable? I mean, to place a widget inside a tooltip? If so, it's
a really nice way to go.

About the info widget, I know that now it doesn't really make much sense,
since the information to add there is few (description) and could be easily
placed in a tooltip, for example. But when I did that I was thinking on that
fallback list stated at the begining of the project: preview -> screenshot
-> icon -> default icon. With the screenshot or even a preview the info
widget would make much more sense. I attached a picture of a drawing that
shows an idea I had of showing a preview of the applet. Just an idea i
had...
(here is the picture: http://imagebin.org/54010)
But if I can do all of that on a tooltip... :)
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