Help needed - Discussion concerning panels

[Michail Vourlakos]

Hello everyone,


I have some questions concerning plasma panels and I hope you could 
help. A small brief, I implemented the Now Dock plasmoid which can be 
found in kdelook. There is a discussion that this should be a panel of 
its one. In other words not (in panel) but a panel. I changed the 
metadata.desktop file accordingly and now the new panel is shown. I add 
it in my environment and I can see a panel which contains the visual of 
my plasmoid. But to move on I need some important steps to go from there.


1. This panel should be able to set its size(width and height) according 
to the visual which is shown. I tried,

Layout.*widths and Layout.*heights to set them in a fixed size but 
nothing happened.

Is it possible to do that? to set the panels size with enforcement?


2. The panel which was created is the default empty panel which is used 
in Plasma. When I right click my visual to go to old configuration 
dialog of the plasmoid instead of the configuration window, the panel's 
settings are appearing next to the panel (Add widgets, set size, etc)... 
is it possible to override this? or open the old configuration dialog?


3. Is it possible to tell the panel to not draw its background, as the 
plasmoids can do? in order to support transparency? but keep the 
plasma's theme untouched?


Thank you very much!


with regards,

michail


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