On Monday 05 July 2010 23:05:27 Thomas Olsen wrote: > Hi > > Inspired by Petri's example [1] I almost succeeded in creating a Python > based PopupApplet without instantiating ExtenderItems. The only problem is > that in order for the Applet to actually popup when clicked on in the > panel, I have to first add it to the desktop and then drag it to the panel > :-/ > > In metadata.desktop I have ServiceTypes=Plasma/PopupApplet. > I have overloaded graphicsWidget() which creates the GUI and widget() which > simply calls graphicsWidget(). Had to use both of them because either I got > a TypeError or neither got called. I also had to call setGraphicsWidget() > and setPopupIcon(). All of this works excellent but only if the Plasmoid > was first added to the desktop. > From reading the source of the C++ implementation [2] I can see that the > panel-icon-widget's (or whatever it's called) clicked() signal gets > connected to a private method internalTogglePopup() but for some reason > that doesn't happen when it is added directly to the panel. > > Am I missing something or will I have to reimplement everything in Python - > which seems a bit silly ;-) Make sure you set a minimum size that's larger than what fits in the panel on the widget() or graphicsWidget() (e.g. setMinimumSize(320, 240)). That's what I had done wrong first in my Ruby plasmoid and it just never worked. I think it's been added to the documentation now, but I'm not sure. Apart from that I don't think that I can help that much. I'm not really into Python after all.
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