4.5 - Activities

[todd rme]

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 March 2010, todd rme wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
>> >> The critical thing here is that containments have to rescale the
>> >> widgets they contain depending on the monitor resolution.  Otherwise
>> >
>> > this is both containment-specific (not all containments follow the same
>> > layouting strategy) and orthogonal to coordinating containments and
>> > contexts. it would be interesting to see work done on this, but it's a
>> > different project touching different parts of the code base altogether.
>>
>> If someone did this, would you accept the patch?  I described a
>> detailed proposal in the bug report I linked to.
>
> I wouldn't like a patch like that (maybe if it's done in desktopconteinment,
> since is highly containment-specific)
> applets should be relayouted in a good way, really not sure about resizing.

Yes, this would only apply to desktop and folder view containments.  I
haven't tried it with newspaper, but I assume the columns would
automatically resize and the vertical dimension is not a problem since
the containment scrolls vertically.

In your mind, what would be "a good way"?  If there are applets spread
across the screen, you can't relayout them without resizing or having
them on top of each other in the desktop or folderview containment.
If any of your applets are larger than one of the new screen
dimensions, if you don't resize them part of these applets will be
off-screen (potentially a critical part like controls or buttons).  I
don't see another solution that would result in all of your applets
being usable.

-Todd