"Kevin A. Burton" wrote:
>
> Today I was thinking of better/different ways to have content rendered
> within Jetspeed.
>
> Currently it is impossible for a controller to determine the best way to
> layout content so that maximum space is used. I was thinking that we
> could have some "size" meta info that would be portlet specific.
>
Would this parameter be settable by the user ? If so, the portlet needs to
be aware of the setting, and should certainly alter its content to suite the
current "mode" it is in.
> So a new method layout suggestion would be
>
> <layout size=""/>
>
> This would be one of the following
>
> maximum
> medium
> minimum
>
> maximum would mean that the Portlet wants to have the entire screen from
> left to right. You could stack things on top or below but just not next
> to it:
>
> --------------------------
> | maximum portlet |
> --------------------------
> ----------- -------------
> | regular | | regular |
> ----------- -------------
>
> Medium would be like:
>
> ------------------- --------
> | medium | | reg |
> ------------------- --------
> ----------- -------------
> | regular | | regular |
> ----------- -------------
>
> This would also just mean that regular would be fixed width and stuck to
> the right but medium would be 100% width and would resize itself.
>
> Minimum would just be the default and would mean that he Portlet could
> run anywhere.
>
+1 on the idea, but implementing this kind of layout would require something
like a gridbag layout controller to handle both rowspan and colspan for
portlets...
> A good example of this would be the JetspeedContentPortlet. This will
> have a *lot* of content and I want it to be a medium portlet.
>
> Probably another medium portlet would be a "mail" reader like XSP-Mail
> that would allow you to keep (or load balance) other portlets to the
> right or left.
>
Does the current default setting in PanedController suit your need ?
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