Is it possible to add a different panel implementation for plasma?

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 13:01:21 UTC 2016


On Wednesday 21 December 2016 14:48:46 Michail Vourlakos wrote:
> Now Dock as it was decided by the plasma developers provides its masking
> and its contents through a secondary window not the original of the
> plasma one (when the widgets are unlocked). So Now Dock must take care
> two windows for their visibility states, sizes,  which one is on top of
> the other and when

none of which seems to need to have access to such properties?

> so you think that from design point view having two separate windows for
> configuration is something logical?
> A panel that has a different window to set its visibility mode and a
> different window to set a zoom Factor, icon size etc. is it something
> elegant to the user or intuitive?

yes, because the basic settings are all the same, doesn't have to be re-
learned, what would be configured separately is the couple of different things, 
like how much the icon would zoom up

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Marco Martin


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