Featurlets for 4.7

[todd rme]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:56 PM, todd rme <toddrme2178 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Another issue someone just brought up in the forums:  Currently the
icon widget does not have the right-click menu for what it is pointing
to.  If this is a good idea, would this be part of the fix already in
the list or should I add it separately?