initial plasmoid size?

[Thomas Fjellstrom]

On July 7, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> On July 7, 2010, Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom at shaw.ca>
> 
> wrote:
> > > On July 7, 2010, Marco Martin wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom
> > >> <tfjellstrom at shaw.ca>
> > > 
> > > wrote:
> > >> > On July 7, 2010, Marco Martin wrote:
> > >> >> On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom
> > >> >> <tfjellstrom at shaw.ca>
> > >> > 
> > >> > wrote:
> > >> >> > Now that I've got my plasmoid working somewhat decently, I've
> > >> >> > noticed that when its on the desktop, it doesn't want to size
> > >> >> > quite properly.
> > >> >> > 
> > >> >> > http://strangesoft.net/plasma-networkinfo/prototype2.png
> > >> >> > 
> > >> >> > What would cause that? It shows up fine in the panel as a popup
> > >> >> > (it is a popup applet)
> > >> >> 
> > >> >> do you set minimum/preferred/maxcimum sizes on -any- of the
> > >> >> widgets? and what are the size hints of that list widget?
> > >> > 
> > >> > I have a max height on the list widget (300px), and a sizeHint on
> > >> > each the items in the list.
> > >> 
> > >> those 300px manual hint shouldn't be necessary, aanyways,
> > >> 
> > >> something is getting broken either a) minimumsize of the list
> > >> -widget- (not items)
> > >> b) broken minimum size of the whole applet (sure you don't ever set
> > >> it?)
> > > 
> > > I haven't set a minimum size on anything. Just a maximum size on the
> > > list widget to keep it from hitting the top of the screen as a popup
> > > with my initial fake data.
> > > 
> > > I do have a lot of the sizePolicy's set to MinimumExpanding, could
> > > that have this effect?
> > 
> > it could, please, try with other ones, like Expanding and Preferred,
> > so we can rule out this possibility
> 
> That did seem to fix it. Though now its making the applet too short in
> popup mode.
> 
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In other news, my design isn't completely retarded, managed to add the
DNS-SD support today:

http://strangesoft.net/plasma-networkinfo/prototype3.png

-- 
Thomas Fjellstrom
tfjellstrom at shaw.ca