devicenotifier with qgw

[Jacopo De Simoi]

On Sunday 20 September 2009 18:09:20 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On September 20, 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On September 19, 2009, Jacopo De Simoi wrote:
> > > 1) we need to activate the items on hover, but with the itemBackground
> > >  animation delay, hoverEvent is not good anymore to track that. I can see
> > >  two solutons: -  itemBackground should send some signal when its
> > > animation finishes, something like targetReached(qgi *) where the pointer
> > > would be null if the target was not an item. -  itemBackground should
> > > make publicly available the animation time, so that we can animate
> > > accordingly fadein/fadeout in each item.
> > 
> > i can see uses for both, really. the problem with providing an animation
> >  time is that it will never be perfectly timed; what would be better is for
> 
> another thing that occurred to me just now while responding to David Placio's 
> email: perhaps you could create a generic listing widget for inclusion in lib 
> plasma and then use ItemBackground internally to make this magic work without 
> having to export more API for it? not sure if that would work out perfectly, 
> but if having such a list widget in libplasma would make this easier, let's 
> consider doing that.

Just to make sure I got what you meant: are you thinking of some widget which you would add qgi to as if it were a layout (for instance) and would allow for scrolling and stuff like that?