Featurlets for 4.7

[todd rme]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Markus Slopianka <markus.s at kdemail.net> wrote:
> Am Sonntag 13 Februar 2011, 20:21:56 schrieb Aaron J. Seigo:
>
>> > 2. Have a "custom" wallpaper position option.  This would let you set
>> > the position and scaling in both horizontal and vertical dimensions,
>> > either to presets like align top or bottom, or to custom values in
>> > pixels.  This is useful for people who want to have one wallpaper span
>> > multiple desktops, they can set the same image but show different
>> > parts of that image.
>>
>> -1; there are better ways of acheiving that, e.g. actually dividing up the
>> image in a proper, competent image editor.
>
> One of the advantages of using many different operating systems is to getting to know some
> nifty tricks for certain features.
> BeOS had a move (not scale) wallpaper feature and it was solved very well:
> In the fake monitor thumbnail (Plasma had this until 4.4 or 4.5) one could simply drag and
> drop the image to move its position.
> I don't know how many people used that feature (I didn't) but how it was implemented was
> unobtrusive.

This sounds good to me.  Is it an acceptable solution to everyone else?

Also, should I add something about finishing the "hide panel" button,
or is someone already working on that?

-Todd