[Discussion] - Plasma Panels Future Enhancements?

[David Edmundson]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Michail Vourlakos <mvourlakos at gmail.com>
wrote:

> David, thanks a lot for the quick reply...
>
> How will that help your use case of the dock?
> You control the containment in a panel, but you're not changing Panel.qml
> itself.
>
> Everything should be exposed to the client already as the "user setting
> its value" is just the panel config, another QML file with access to the
> same panelview properties as panel does.
>
> In terms of Panel dimensions  we refer to thickness and length.
> When the panel is at the top or bottom of the screen, thickness is height
> and length is width. When the panel is on the left or right side, it's the
> opposite.
>
> Thickness is self-explanatory
>
> Length can be confusing:
>  - length should be the implicit size of the contents of the panel
> containment want to be.
>  - min/max length are the
>
> panelview will set the panel to length, but constrained to min/max length
> and then also bound to the size of the screen.
>
>
>
> David, the Panel.qml file as I have understood it, is a layer between the
> panelview (c++ code) and the client (qml) implementation.
> From my dock I can not find any way to alter the the panel's thickness
> (the Layout.preferredHeight which corrresponds in some
> cases to thickness (horizontal) is not exposed). I need it because the
> user can set the icon size and the zoomfactor for the hovering
> animation, these two are used to calculate the thickness which is needed
> in order to not have animations that are not shown. Currently
> the user must try to set the optimal thickness manually....
>


What do you mean by "the client"? Your containment?

David
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