Battery plasmoid auto hide

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 22:23:19 Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Technically that behaviour is correct, just doesn't look too nice.

technically that behaviour is a bug :)

note how when this happens that the show/hide arrow in the tray remains in the 
(wrong) "hide icons" state.

this is something that could and should be fixed. there are a couple of ways 
to accomplish this (all ways i can think of, no discretion on goodness 
applied):

a) the icons hide and the popup appears as originating from the system tray. i 
don't like this because it then become hard to close it (one could perhaps 
suggest clicking on the hide/show arrow, but that means overloading the 
purpose of that arrow to mean both "show/hide the hiden icons display" as well 
as "hide the display of a popup from the hidden icons"

b) the icon that has the popup shown is migrated to the shown area of the 
tray. not great because it means moving the items around in the tray more than 
necessary and entries moving all about in the UI. meh.

c) keeping the hidden icons popup shown until the PopupApplet's popup is 
hidden. probably best so far as it follows the "least surprise" principle: 
nothing you didn't ask for has happened automatically behind your back.

with (c), the question becomes where to position the popup: at the top of the 
listing, near the icon, or even to move the icon.

imho what would be optimal is for the popup to appear _to the side_ of the 
entry (rather than on top of the entire display of hidden icons) aligned with 
the bottom of the icon (or top, if coming from the top of the screen or if 
there isn't vertical room due to being in e.g. a vertical panel near the top 
of the screen).

iow, much like a traditional popup menu, Q/KMenu-style.

any takers for improving this particular bit of behaviour?

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