Review Request: Rework layout of widget explorer and activity manager in vertical mode

[Aurélien Gâteau]

> On June 24, 2012, 9:29 p.m., Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > Screenshot: before-after
> > <http://git.reviewboard.kde.org>
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> >     For consistency with these buttons in System Settings (and all others opening new dialog) this should have "..." at the end, eg. "Get New Widgets..." (also don't forget uppercase on every first letter).

I agree, but this can't happen for 4.9: strings are frozen.


- Aurélien


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On June 22, 2012, 10:04 p.m., Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
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> (Updated June 22, 2012, 10:04 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma and Marco Martin.
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> Description
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> I made a few changes to make widget explorer nicer in vertical mode
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> - Fix cropped list items.
> - Make buttons use full width.
> - Move "Get new widgets" and action buttons to the bottom so that:
>   - different label alignments do not look odd (category button vs others)
>   - category button is closer to the list it controls
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> Additionally it would be much better if tooltips could appear on the right (or left) of the current list item instead of on top of it because it easily gets in the way, but I don't know how to do this. Any idea? An alternative would be to just drop the tooltip, it currently does more harm than good imo.
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> There is also something weird going on with the backgrounds: the "after" screenshots use a opaque background, but that is not part of the patch and I don't understand what makes the code pick the opaque or transparent background. It should be fixed to use the opaque background, again, any idea where that bug could be?
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> Diffs
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>   libs/plasmagenericshell/widgetsexplorer/package/contents/ui/main.qml 4beecec 
>   plasma/desktop/shell/activitymanager/package/contents/ui/main.qml 1886529 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105329/diff/
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> Testing
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> - Looks better in vertical mode.
> - No regression in horizontal mode.
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> Screenshots
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> before-after
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105329/s/607/
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> Thanks,
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> Aurélien Gâteau
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