4.5 - Activities

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 10 March 2010, todd rme wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> >> If someone did this, would you accept the patch?  I described a
> > 
> > sure; i'd recommend doing it as a proof-of-concept first in a new
> > Containment plugin, so that it isn't bumping into existing layout code.
> > it would make it easier to test and work on strategies.
> 
> I can do that, I think.
> 
> > for testing, i'd also recommend using something like plasmoidviewer: a
> > simple one-window app that is a Plasma::View which loads a Corona and
> > this new Containment. it could then have some controls on it to change
> > the size of the window to different common screen resolutions (maybe a
> > toolbar with some buttons?). this would allow easy testing, and
> > shouldn't be more than a hundred or so LOC.
> 
> Wouldn't it be easier to just use a virtual machine and resize the
> machine arbitrarily?  That way we don't have to depend on it matching
> what are currently common resolutions (although with kwin it is easy
> to make a virtual machine a specific resolution).

or, plasmaoidviewer -c yourcontainment, then drop some applets in it and 
resize as you please ;)

> > while this can happen with FolderView, i don't think this should be
> > possible with DefaultDesktop.
> 
> I mis-spoke, "mostly" is incorrect, the word I meant to use is "much".
>  For instance, if you have a folderview widget the height of the
> screen, then go to a smaller screen, then part of your folderview
> widget will be below the bottom of the screen.

as is now, DesktopContainment should never let applets out of screen.

Cheers,
Marco Martin