Creating a rectangular icon

[Antony Loebs]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Antony Loebs
> <barefootedjournalist at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  I have been trying to figure out how to display a rectangular image in
> the
> > panel to use as a button. The image itself is 30x120, but I can't get it
> to
> > display to my satisfaction. If I use IconWidget, the image is squashed
> into
> > a square. If I use PushButton, the image is likewise squashed by the
> > button's borders. I tried changing the stylesheet for the button, setting
> > margin and padding to 0, but with no success. Below is the sample code
> (the
> > PushButton code is commented out).
>
> to just display an image you probably want to use Label (yes, it can
> display images and a click signaliirc)
>
>  Two problems: one, I don't see how to make a click on a label register,
and two, while it looks fine on the desktop, if it is started in the panel
it is squashed horizontally (so the image looks like a vertical line about
four or five pixels wide). Additionally, when I rescale the panel, the image
scales vertically, but not horizontally.

Here is the changes to the code:
---
import subprocess

self.button = Plasma.Label(self.applet)
self.button.setImage(self.package().path() + "contents/images/image.png")
self.button.setScaledContents(True)
self.connect(self.button, SIGNAL("linkActivated()"), self.notify)

def notify(self):
    subprocess.Popen(['qdbus', 'org.kde.lancelot', '/Lancelot', 'show', '0',
'0'])
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