Review Request 117121: Add property to determine if popups should be inside or outside the parentItem

[David Edmundson]

> On March 27, 2014, 5:57 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
> > "break" as in.. ?
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     Add kickoff to the desktop. Resize it so it's compact then hover over it. Broken.
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     uhm, works for me? http://wstaw.org/m/2014/03/27/plasma-desktopLW1833.png
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     ah, no, apparently depends from where the applet is
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     well, i don't see where locateinsideparent should be true.
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>     right now locateinsideparent = true if the window is a desktop.. and that doesn't seem to make any sense?
>     
>     if i remove completely locateinsideparent everything seems to just work?
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> David Edmundson wrote:
>     Without ever setting it to true WidgetExplorer won't work when loaded on a second screen which is to the right of the main screen.
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>     We would try to position it to the left outside the parentItem (which is the entire screen) so it appears on the wrong screen. 
>     The fact that it works in any other case is just a fortunate set of circumstances as the logic to make sure it fits in the screen ends up putting it back.
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>     I will need to add the locateInsideParent: true to the relevant part of in kde-workspace.
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     hmm, to me the proper solution would be trying to always put the dialog in the same screen as the parent view

>the proper solution would be trying to always put the dialog in the same screen as the parent view

Which is why we need the locateInsideParent. Without it we explicitly calculate that the best position for the widget explorer dialog is off the screen. Calculating something should be completely off the screen and then trying to manipulate it back onto the right screen isn't a very proper solution. We need to fix the initial calculation to be in the right place to start with.

Relative to the parent the ideal position for widget explorer and any other popup are completely different. One is on top of the parent, the other is outside it. We need a way to tell dialog that as determining it automatically (what we had before this patch) doesn't work safely enough.


- David


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On March 27, 2014, 5:34 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
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> (Updated March 27, 2014, 5:34 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-framework
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> Description
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> Add property to determine if popups should be inside or outside the parentItem
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> For some cases of dialog we want to position within the parent item for
> example widget explorer. For popup applets on the desktop the dialog
> should appear outside of the parentItem.
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> Currently we try to determine it automatically from the window type of
> the parentItem. This worked fine for widget explorer and panels, but
> breaks for popup applets on the desktop.
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> Diffs
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>   src/plasmaquick/dialog.h 3804d18 
>   src/plasmaquick/dialog.cpp 77c0c8c 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117121/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> David Edmundson
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