Nested Panels

[Aaron Peterson]

>
> some applets give you a data that can make sense in a small horizontal (or
> vertical) strip, some other really can't, so an iconic representation is all
> can be done, and even all that makes sense (think bout the start menu, you
> really want it as an icon with popup when is in a small, always visible panel
> and nothing else)

Oh boy, I didn't think panel size would have anything to do with it, I
just made my panel a wee bit bigger and my device notifier turned into
an actual device notifier!   Thank you!

Feel kinda bad that I had to be told,

Now, I need to figure out a size to make the K menu fit into a panel.
and I guess that tweaking device manager to not waste so much space is
manageable.  Should I file a bug for that? Also the information /
preview icon in dolphin takes a large percentage of my screen, can
they be combined to be a general bug?

> so in the end how to react is completely decided by the applet implementation.
> since the "becoming a popup" case was sooo commonly needed, a new convenience
> class to do just that has been done (for KDE 4.2 iirc, so not -so- new :p)
> that is PopupApplet, applets that subclass this instead of applet inherit the
> same common features:
> icons in panels, (horizontal or vertical formfactor) the full window in the
> deskop, newspaper or whatever (planar or mediacenter formfactor)
> if the panel is really big, so big there is room for the full popup, the
> applet expands to the full contents in panels as well (this is rather useful
> with autohide panels actually)
>
>> do this?  Actually, I know that the pager plasmoid is active in the
>> panel, It would be great to toggle if I want it to be a button to open
>> the app, or actually have the app be in the panel, so when the panel
>> opens all of my apps are there. (I think this is related, because very
>> little behaves as expected when put in a panel, but behaves as
>> expected when put on desktop...I've been thinking that maybe things
>> just can't be put in a panel)
>
> if an applet doesn't work at all when in the panel is an applet bug.
> but nowdaysthis doesn't happen that much anyore, also because that majority of
> new applets are popupapplets.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Marco Martin
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