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the thing is that it is not easy for the user to add or use an alternative 
plasmoid cause the plasmoids don't have specific application icons. now it is a 
mix between the user application icons, action icons, ....

the VDG discuss to make for all widgets specific application icons. But first 
it is much work and second an preview would be much better cause the user will 
know what will be added. In addition the activity sidebar and the application 
switcher sidebar also have previews so we start talking about an global look 
and feel see user-prompt.com/look-and-feel-of-plasma-sidebars/

For the user previews would be the best way to show what the widget is used 
for. For the VDG it is less work to make screenshots than application icons and 
for the overall design it would be more consistent.

The problem that screenshots could be fast outdated is true but as long as the 
plasma theme don't change that much the widgets would have the same screenshot. 
In addition plasmoids from ghns have also screenshots to show the user what he 
will download. If there is no screenshot the app icon was shown.

About the size. Now the list is quite long so it would be nice to have two 
columns and we prefere also to have two columns in addition the use can resize 
the panel to get an better overview.

This is an rewrite for plasma mobile and I think we had a good solution for an 
consistant look and feel and should use it for the rewrite.

- andreas kainz


On Sept. 10, 2015, 10:53 a.m., Marco Martin wrote:
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> Review request for Plasma and andreas kainz.
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> Repository: plasma-desktop
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> Description
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> As requested by the VDG, show screenshots in the widget explorer when 
> available, to have a look similar to the activity manager (they'll do 
> screenshots for all our plasmoids).
> when a screenshot is not available, it falls back to the old design.
> this is an in-between design, the latest design would be with two columns 
> instead of one, but that would need to be tested as well beforehand, both in 
> the widget explorer and the activity switcher
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> Diffs
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>   desktoppackage/contents/explorer/AppletDelegate.qml 7ded06e 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125135/diff/
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> Testing
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> File Attachments
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> snapshot6.png
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> https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/09/10/73db8a25-adaa-4d18-9aa5-35f2c5156ad4__snapshot6.png
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> Thanks,
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> Marco Martin
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