From kde-panel-devel  Sun Sep 30 20:02:10 2007
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:02:10 +0000
To: kde-panel-devel
Subject: Re: [Panel-devel] Plasma panel
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On Sunday 30 September 2007, Alex Merry wrote:
> On Sunday 30 Sep 2007, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > Panel
> > Panel
> > Panel
> > ------------- 0 -----------
> > Screen 1			Screen 2			Screen 3
>
> The problem here is knowing where on the screen to put the PanelView...

isn't that was Location Containment::location() is for? =3D) we may need to=
 add=20
more values to the Location enum, but this only leaves stacking orders if w=
e=20
decide to support multiple panels on the same screen edge ... which i'm not=
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sure we need/want to.

> > the trick will be preventing users from accidently moving objects
> > into the negative coordinate space themselves, but i think this is
> > pretty easy to do, really (mostly by controling what the views are
> > showing).
>
> It actually is fine, as long as the panels have a z-value higher than
> the desktops.  Anything moved into the panel space will just slide
> under the panels

this doesn't take into consideration hiding panels, does it?

> I've got another version with signals for updates here.  See what you
> think.  Note that PanelViews are created on demand now, so you can now
> add panels from the desktop context menu.

i'm not sure we need the appletAdded signal, do we? (if we do, i'd also=20
provide a pointer to the Containment it is in with the signal...)

also, i'm not sure i like the add[South|North|East|West]Panel methods. i'd=
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like to come up with a more ... human friendly way of doing this. *thinks*

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Aaron J. Seigo
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