new Plasma Quick module: PlasmaExtras

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Tuesday, April 03, 2012 13:28:45 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Saturday 31 March 2012, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > We have a new Plasma Quick Module: org.kde.plasma.extras
> > Plasma Extras is a collection of Add-ons for Plasma that:
> > 
> >
> > - provide higher level functionality and system integration
> > - capture appearance specific patterns by providing Look & Feel
> > integration
> >
> >   components for a higher degree of consistency in layouts between apps
> 
> I've added a new component to extra, one that was bothering me since a
> loooong  time
> 
> it's called ScrollArea, basically it's an item to be used as a parent of a 
> flickable (so ListView and GridViews too)
> 
> when the content becomes bigger than the widget it automatically creats the 
> needed scrollbars, making scrollbars or scrollindicators is autodetected
> and if is a listview with a section categorization it creates a
> SectionScroller instead of a scrollbar
> 
> on the desktop it should reserve the space for the scrollbar, on touch, the 
> indicators are an overlay of the flickable.
> 
> ie a loooot of error prone stuff that is not needed to do it automatically 
> anymore

That's indeed very useful, thanks! :)
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sebas

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