Spacing in a plasma applet

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 30 April 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On April 29, 2010, Alessandro Diaferia wrote:
> 
> thanks for fwd'ing it on, Alessandro ...
> 
> > 2010/4/30 Jesús Fernández <jesusfs at gmail.com>
> > 
> > > Hi, I'm developing an applet (plasmoid) using the python bindings.
> > > I use a QGraphicsLinearLayout and I add IconWidgets to it.
> > > As I'd like the applet to live either in a horizontal or vertical
> > > panel, I'm checking the orientation of the parent containment to set
> > > the orientation
> > > of the applet's layout.
> > > I'd like the IconWidgets to have zero (or the minimum) spacing between
> > > them,
> > > so I call setSpacing(0) on the layout.
> > > This works fine when the applet is in the desktop, ie not in a panel
> > > or in the plasmoidviewer, but when the applet is in a panel,
> > > there's some spacing between them and I can't figure out how to remove
> > > it. Can someone please give me a hint?
> 
> probably it's spacing the icons out because the size policy and/or size
> hint for the plasmoid is set to "expanding". if you set the size policies
> to not be expanding, then when it is put into the panel it will not take
> up more space, resulting in gaps between the icons.

to work as expected icons should be (Fixed, Expanding) in horizontal panels
and (Expanding, FixedI in vertical ones

Cheers
Marco Martin