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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player]
From:       iglio () fub ! it (Pietro Iglio)
Date:       1999-05-13 15:07:14
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At 15.47 13/05/99 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, 13 May 1999, Steffen Hansen wrote:
>>On Thu, 13 May 1999, Martin Konold wrote:
>>
>>> > I would hate if I had to open menus in a media player, and I think
other people
>>> > too, btw. a menubar
>>> > in such a programm looks really ugly IMO and takes a lot of space.
>>> 
>>> Well, imho in order to gain a kde complient kde app you can simply take
>>> the kvt/konsole approach of hiding the menubar.
>>
>>Requiring a menubar is braindamaged. Small applications (applets)
>>shouldn't need to have a menubar.
>
>That reminds me on something. Shall we support panel applets in KDE-2.0 as
well?
>
>The screens are getting bigger and bigger these days, people with 1600x1200
>resolution (like me :-) would maybe like to to have a bigger panel that
>actually is big enough to support applets. Together with the new 48x48 icons
>this may look quite nifty.
>
>Of course we'll still continue to support small and tiny space-saving
panels as
>we do with KDE today, those won't handle applets, though, "just" docking.
>
>Opinions?
>
>If people like it and (even more important) people are willing to write some
>nifty applets, I'll volunteer to write both the KApplet and the KAppletDock
>class.
>
>Applet writing will then simple mean inheriting KApplet instead of QWidget,
>everything else will work magically.
>
>We also would need some standard sizes, applet designers can rely on. Most
>certainly an applet should be scalable, but the designers should have some
>hints what's the target size.
>
>Pietro, would you help with integrating the KAppletDock in kpanel?

Yes!!! But, please, work on kpanel from the HEAD branch.
Note that there is already a way to specify the size of a swallowed app
(kpanel from the HEAD branch). You can add a SizeInPanel=... in the
.kdelnk file.

Are you sure that nobody else is already writing similar classes?
It seems to me that this topic has already been discussed some weeks ago
on this list, but I had no time to read all messages.

-- Pietro

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