Review Request 125134: Add a role for screenshots in the widgetexplorer model

[Martin Gräßlin]

> On Sept. 10, 2015, 12:39 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > I'm questioning the distribution of screenshots. Wouldn't it make more sense to generate it at runtime to show how it will look like (theme, proper dpi, etc.)?
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> Marco Martin wrote:
>     i don't think it's feasible, it would have to load each single plasmoid in order to grab an image.
>     that means either screenshots are missing until the first time it's loaded or a very slow and expensive process is done the first time plasma starts (or each time a plasmoid is added)

in that case we should start now thinking about we prevent that the screenshots are outdated like the preview videos of kwin effects.


- Martin


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On Sept. 10, 2015, 12:24 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 10, 2015, 12:24 p.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Repository: plasma-workspace
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> Description
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> As suggested by the VDG, add the possibility to have screenshots for plasmoids.
> the widget explorer will be modified as well to show the screenshots in the applet list when available
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> Diffs
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>   components/shellprivate/widgetexplorer/plasmaappletitemmodel.cpp 99e9add 
>   components/shellprivate/widgetexplorer/plasmaappletitemmodel_p.h f9cc89f 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125134/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Marco Martin
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