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List: kde-panel-devel
Subject: Re: 4.5 - Activities
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: 2010-03-10 18:26:46
Message-ID: 201003101026.47009.aseigo () kde ! org
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On March 10, 2010, todd rme wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo@kde.org> wrote:
> >> If someone did this, would you accept the patch? I described a
> >
> > sure; i'd recommend doing it as a proof-of-concept first in a new
> > Containment plugin, so that it isn't bumping into existing layout code.
> > it would make it easier to test and work on strategies.
>
> I can do that, I think.
cool. :)
> > for testing, i'd also recommend using something like plasmoidviewer: a
> > simple one-window app that is a Plasma::View which loads a Corona and
> > this new Containment. it could then have some controls on it to change
> > the size of the window to different common screen resolutions (maybe a
> > toolbar with some buttons?). this would allow easy testing, and
> > shouldn't be more than a hundred or so LOC.
>
> Wouldn't it be easier to just use a virtual machine and resize the
> machine arbitrarily?
what i suggested gives the same benefit, only without requiring a whole VM t
run it in. with a simple app that resizes its window, you can create any set
of sizes wanted and it would be far easier for others to test this way as
well.
> > or perhaps the desktop layout could use an anchor style layout with the
> > ratio to the edges or other landmarks being used.
>
> That would be a solution, but I think that would require much more
> major changes, at least to the plasma configuration files. I was
not really; what is in the configuration files is simply the resulting
geometry. how that geometry is arrived at is completely up to the containment.
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Aaron J. Seigo
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