On August 11, 2009 06:23:44 Jacopo De Simoi wrote: > Taking inspiration from a number of wishes on bko i've come up with a > trivial patch for plasmoidviewer which adds a commandline option which > sets the background of the window to be translucent. This in principle > allows to have a plasmoid floating around on the desktop as a real window, > and looking as nice as a plasmoid (with composite enabled and noborders). > It has the drawback of allowing a user to break plasma, by having > standalone plasmoids which don't belong to regular containments, won't > show up in the dashboard, etc etc. However, I've already seen a couple of > wishes that pretty much requested the ability to break the concept and to > put plasmoids in foreground. Even if I don't feel it useful (although > there's a whole lot of things which I don't feel useful but people use > them on a daily basis) I'd like to hear from you if I should even put it > up on the reviewboard. In my opinion such option would be enough hidden > from the average user and would basically only be used by some diehard > hackers who then will not complain if things don't behave as expected, so > it would be basically harmless.
ok, put it on reviewboard. so long as plasmoidviewer remains useful as a developer tool. :) my concern, though, is that this patch will result in requests for more of the same. although there are things that could be improved in plasmoidviewer that'd also help developers, I guess. -- This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. www.chani3.com
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