Review Request 125135: show screenshots in the widget explorer

[kainz.a]

I can also make it with transparent background. no Problem. we also can say
we move the Screenshot into KDE:breeze with the APP Name for the linking so
it would be more in or focus to change something.

whatever you like. it is an improvement for our users and it is according
to our guidelines.

Andreas
Am 10.09.2015 14:06 schrieb "Martin Gräßlin" <mgraesslin at kde.org>:

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> On September 10th, 2015, 1:43 p.m. CEST, *Kai Uwe Broulik* wrote:
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> First of all, I like the idea.
>
> However, I think we should go with PNG with alpha channel rather than having the Breeze default wallpaper there which changes every release. Showing a fully working Plasmoid is probably too much in this list in terms of performance but might be worth thinking allowing a plasmoid to provide a demo.qml (eg.  analog clock's face is pretty isolated) which is then shown there and in sync with the actual Plasmoid by using parts of it.
> On the other hand, Android also just shows screenshots :)
>
> On September 10th, 2015, 1:51 p.m. CEST, *Marco Martin* wrote:
>
> i think as well having an alpha channel would be much prettier, however would require a specialized tool and would be slightly harder to do, needs to be as easy and fast for the VDG people to do them quickly. (also applets that make sense only as an expanded popup like kickoff would work better with the wallpaper i think?)
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> maybe we could get an easy "screenshot mode" into plasmoidviewer? So that it
> - hides the background
> - uses correct size
> - saves it with a standardized name
>
> Kickoff exposes another problem: some applets will need KWin help. Taking the screenshot without a background won't work for them, though the background hardly matters if we get the area around as translucent.
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>
> - Martin
>
> On September 10th, 2015, 12:53 p.m. CEST, Marco Martin wrote:
> Review request for Plasma and andreas kainz.
> By Marco Martin.
>
> *Updated Sept. 10, 2015, 12:53 p.m.*
> *Repository: * plasma-desktop
> Description
>
> As requested by the VDG, show screenshots in the widget explorer when available, to have a look similar to the activity manager (they'll do screenshots for all our plasmoids).
> when a screenshot is not available, it falls back to the old design.
> this is an in-between design, the latest design would be with two columns instead of one, but that would need to be tested as well beforehand, both in the widget explorer and the activity switcher
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> Diffs
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>    - desktoppackage/contents/explorer/AppletDelegate.qml (7ded06e)
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> View Diff <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125135/diff/>
> File Attachments
> - snapshot6.png
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