PlasmaCore Dialog maximum width

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 28 May 2012, Ionut Colceriu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way I could make a PlasmaCore Dialog fullscreen, in QML?
> Right now, it seems that the Dialog has a maximum width (screen width
> - margins) that I can't get beyond, regardless of the width I set on
> the mainItem.
> 
> Also, could you tell me where the margins for it are set? I've tried
> removing the shadow-hint-margins from the SVG theme
> (/dialogs/background.svgz), with no luck.
> 
> Thanks!

that's not what Dialog is for.
bindings are purposefully kept without (much) control of how the window 
appearance will be, because an applet should just define what will be the data 
disaplayed, not control too much what the final appearance will be.
for elements that end up being top level windows is even more evident due to 
how many corner cases there are: what will be the window mask, needed if 
composite is off, what is the position in the whole screen that may span in 
multiple monitors, where are the reserved areas (panels) etc.

so in general writing things in qml that requires things like a full screen 
window is discouraged. if really needed, an element to do that should be 
implemented in c++ but *not* exported as a plugin.

Cheers,
Marco Martin