On February 26th, 2013, 1:36 p.m. UTC, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

- If you click on the title on the task bar, it doesn't show the kwin present windows effect, how to implement that? Is there interest in a 'kwin dataengine' or should I go for a mixed C++/QML applet?

a WindowSystem qml import would probably be the trick here, and it should be designed with the kwin team.

- there is an annoyance in the task list(present windows fallback): I can set a minimum height, but if I close a task and re-set the minimum height, the popup won't shrink again, leaving an unpleasant empty space; plasma bug?

as other users of this do shrink, my guess without looking would be that it is a QML issue and the item is not actually getting resized.

- the close/restore buttons don't glow on hover. I couldn't load a theme svg using the IconItem. Is that possible?

you can load an icon file from the svg theme and specify the element to use, e.g.: "source: svgname-elementname"

- do you know how to read the size of the containment the widget is contained?

no, and this should never be required.

On February 28th, 2013, 10:58 a.m. UTC, Greg T wrote:

- - there is an annoyance in the task list(present windows fallback): I can set a minimum height, but if I close a task and re-set the minimum height, the popup won't shrink again, leaving an unpleasant empty space; plasma bug?
- as other users of this do shrink, my guess without looking would be that it is a QML issue and the item is not actually getting resized.

I've checked my qml code with a onMinimumHeightChanged handler and the size is set correctly. Well, now I've set maximumHeight to minimumHeight. That does the trick!

- you can load an icon file from the svg theme and specify the element to use, e.g.: "source: svgname-elementname"

After checking IconItem source, I don't even begin to understand how that can work. First of all it splits for '-' and would try to load 'widgets/configuration' which doesn't even exist
i.e.: source: "widgets/configuration-icons-maximize"

- - do you know how to read the size of the containment the widget is contained?
- no, and this should never be required.

sorry for providing insufficient data, but how would you implement this: 
const int width = qMin((qreal)(KIconLoader::SizeSmallMedium*2 + fm.width('M')*30), containment()->size().width()/4);
on small screens the compactRepresentation of currentappcontrol shouldn't take the whole panel width

On February 28th, 2013, 1:07 p.m. UTC, Kai Uwe Broulik wrote:

Concerning the svg stuff, load the SVG like so:
    PlasmaCore.Svg {
        id: configurationIconsSvg
        imagePath: "widgets/configuration-icons"
    }
and then you can use
        svg: configurationIconsSvg
        elementId: "maximize"
to access it

that's right, I'm doing this right now. You can even write it more compact:
            PlasmaCore.SvgItem {
                anchors.fill: parent
                elementId: "maximize"
                svg: PlasmaCore.Svg {
                    imagePath: "widgets/configuration-icons"
                }
            }
What's your point?

- Greg

On February 25th, 2013, 6:20 p.m. UTC, Greg T wrote:

Heya folks,
This is a qml port of the netbook applet currentappcontrol. It's ready to use, but not fully complete.
Missing features/bugs:
- If you click on the title on the task bar, it doesn't show the kwin present windows effect, how to implement that? Is there interest in a 'kwin dataengine' or should I go for a mixed C++/QML applet?
- there is an annoyance in the task list(present windows fallback): I can set a minimum height, but if I close a task and re-set the minimum height, the popup won't shrink again, leaving an unpleasant empty space; plasma bug?
- the close/restore buttons don't glow on hover. I couldn't load a theme svg using the IconItem. Is that possible?
- do you know how to read the size of the containment the widget is contained?