Setting a plasmoid on desktop border

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
http://www.shantanutushar.com


On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:

> On Friday, July 1, 2011 16:49:48 Francesco Nwokeka wrote:
> > 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?
>
> as the others have said: this should happen in a panel.
>
> what i see as being different in your mockup is a tab on the side of the
> screen that can be clicked on to pull out said panel. that would be a
> feature
> that belongs in plasma-desktop so that any panel could be similarly
> "tabbed".
>
> this really isn't the sort of decision an individual plasmoid should make,
> however, as the assumptions are highly specific to the given shell
> (desktop,
> netbook, tablet, etc) and plasmoids should work "everywhere" as much as
> possible.
>
> so an interesting experiment/direction could be to add a new kind of panel
> to
> plasma-desktop that has such a screen-edge tab.
>

+1 for panel with screen-edge tab


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