Initial size and aspect ratio

[Thomas Olsen]

Hi

Working on my first Plasmoid - a Currency Converter written in Python. I pretty 
much got everything working much thanks to people on this list and on 
http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt. A couple of things 
are left that I cannot seem to find the answer for anywhere:

 - After having created the UI and layout in init() I need to resize the 
Plasmoid the a reasonable size as it is too small without specifying it [1]. I 
don't want to use a fixed pixel size as this can be wrong for different themes, 
fonts etc. I tried to resize it based on the max/minimum width/height of the 
main layout but that caused plasma-desktop to eat all memory and eventually 
crash so I guess thats the wrong way to do it ;-) What is the best practice 
for setting the initial size?

 - Yesterday I redesigned the layout and in the process I mistakenly deleted a 
line that made the Plasmoid ignore aspect ratio and now I don't remember where 
I found it, if it was a call to Plasma::Applet, the layout or whatever. Does 
anyone have a clue what I'm talking about? I know it sounds a bit hazy :-)

[1] http://picasaweb.google.com/tanghus/Screenies#5388058277920917842

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Best Regards / Med venlig hilsen

  Thomas Olsen