On July 18, 2010 23:35:39 Aaron Peterson wrote: > Please check my understanding: > Does panel == containment? > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/Vocabulary Does not list > panel, but it does list containment.
yes. specifically, there are PanelContainment and CustomPanelContainment in the ContainmentType enum, and the Panel class (and any 3rd party panels) inherits Containment (which inherits Applet). > > So, a panel is not a nested, (forgive me)desktop--Corona, it is used > by corona to manage widgets... yes. > and we can have nested containers... neted layouts, nested graphicswidgets, but not nested Containments. if you try to put a Containment inside another Containment, it acts as a simple Applet. > > #2, > I am also confused at how many applets show up as icons when in a > panel, and show up as... a window when on the desktop... How would I > embed a folder view into the panel. yes, applets respond to the FormFactor constraint, showing themselves in an appropriate manner - the easiest way to get that behaviour is to subclass PopupApplet, which automatically switches to that icon-popup mode. I don't know whether folderview has any code to handle that - never tried it myself. :) > / Will any of the new containers new containers? > do this? Actually, I know that the pager plasmoid is active in the > panel, It would be great to toggle if I want it to be a button to open > the app, or actually have the app be in the panel, so when the panel > opens all of my apps are there. when the panel opens? have the app be in the panel? I don't understand what you're saying... hrrm... do you mean you want to be able to choose to have an applet act as if it were in a desktop formfactor while it's in the panel? that probably wouldn't work very well, given the size of most panels - the applets turn into icons because there's often no *room* for anything else. (although it may make sense for them to actually check how much space they've got, and whether it's enough). > (I think this is related, because very > little behaves as expected when put in a panel, but behaves as > expected when put on desktop...I've been thinking that maybe things > just can't be put in a panel) not all applets were designed with the panel's formfactor in mind, yes. They all could be adapted to work in the panel, it's just that nobody's done it. :) _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
