Yes, the grid exists in Plasma 2, but due to screen size is less obvious, while for small touch-screen it becomes a little too intrusive. Is there a way to have the gris parameters changed in order to have closer grid points or disable it completely ?
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 10:33 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colo...@autistici.org>wrote: > On Saturday 07 September 2013 21:44:56 Bogdan Cristea wrote: > > Hi > > > > I had a look at new plasmoids installed on PA (Picture Frame). No > > modifications are needed to be installed in PA, but when a plasmoid is > > added to an activity it seems a little strange that the plasmoid > > position and size are somehow limited to some discrete values, i.e. the > > plasmoid cannot be positioned anywhere on the screen and its size cannot > > vary to any value. > > That's on purpose: The Activity Screen uses a layout grid, and everything > automatically aligns to that grid. That limits the placement and sizing > freedom a bit, but in combination with the resource boxes and the > imprecision > of touchscreen interaction, Activity screens would turn into a real visual > mess pretty fast if there was not grid. > Btw: I've heard that Plasma 2 uses a grid layout for all workspaces (not > sure > if that's still true, though). > > > One more question. Where could I add the new plasmoids I find to work on > > PA (e.g. picture frame) ? > > There is no offical way yet, but as soon as it's completely rolled out, > Plasmoids will be made available through Add Ons. See also Aaron's Google > Plus > post sharing the release announcement > (https://plus.google.com/107555540696571114069/posts/ffJp9rpTMZe): > "The real story, however, is going to be in the months after this release > as > we roll out the content store management app for people who would like to > participate by offering original content (apps, artwork, books, etc, > etc.), an > app developer support program and focus on hardware adaptations." > > Cheers, > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > Active mailing list > Active@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active > -- Bogdan Cristea
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