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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: [PATCH] Buttons for applet handles
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2001-07-09 19:56:02
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On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 03:59:10PM +0000, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> #if Frerich Raabe
> 
> > I once thought about adding some functionality to Kicker (and the 
> > appletproxy) to make it possible to remove applets via DCOP. Then we could at 
> > least add an additional entry to e.g. KNewsTicker's menu (which is available 
> > via the arrow button [which in turns seems to be way more intuitive than 
> > right-clicking on that handle]) which reads "Remove" and makes the applet 
> > terminate itself via DCOP.
> 
> How would you specify which applet to remove ?
> 
> If it's an unique applet, you could just give the desktop file, but
> even an unique applet may exist more than once - think child panels.
> Perhaps that's just a misfeature.
> 
> I'm more comfortable with the idea of applets having their own DCOP
> interface and asking them to remove themselves.

Would that not be overkill?

The aim is to be able to remove a applet from its own configuration menu, in
general this means all the instances.

Anyway; Adding a DCOP to the panel/subpanels seems nicer to me, and since 
the GUI does not allow an applet to be added more then ones to any panel...

With this 'solve' you can just ask kicker to remove an applet, which means
that kicker ask all the subpanels. Or your DCOP could ask one panel/subpanel
to remove the thing.

Just my .02
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Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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