Setting a plasmoid on desktop border

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 01 July 2011, Francesco Nwokeka wrote:
> Hi devs.
> 	As suggested today by sebas, I'm writing to the ML to ask info about a
> problem I have and what you suggest would be the best way to solve this.
> The effect I want to achieve is the same as the cashew icon. That is being
> attached to the desktop borders or being able to know the desktop
> boundaries.
> I was told that to be able to achieve this, I would have to add my plasmoid
> to the KDE desktop containment and then set my plasmoid to stay on the
> edge.
> Another option given to me was that I were to write my own containment. But
> so would this involve writing code for the Plasma desktop.
> 
> Do you guys have any proposals?
> 
> P.S - Attached to the mail is one of my mockups so you can get the idea I
> have in mind.
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Francesco

things like that are explicilty been made as hard to do as we could (tough, 
unfortunately not impossible)
plasmoids should never ever control their appearance too much, and even less 
make any form of assumption on how its continment behave (like it's a desktop 
with a free positioning layout)
as i did tell you in the past, what you really want is to do that in a panel, 
really.

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Marco Martin