and when the Screenshot was only shown when the Screenshot is e.g. 6 month
old.
Am 10.09.2015 15:36 schrieb "Martin Klapetek" <martin.klape...@gmail.com>:

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> On September 10th, 2015, 1:43 p.m. CEST, *Kai Uwe Broulik* wrote:
>
> First of all, I like the idea.
>
> However, I think we should go with PNG with alpha channel rather than having 
> the Breeze default wallpaper there which changes every release. Showing a 
> fully working Plasmoid is probably too much in this list in terms of 
> performance but might be worth thinking allowing a plasmoid to provide a 
> demo.qml (eg.  analog clock's face is pretty isolated) which is then shown 
> there and in sync with the actual Plasmoid by using parts of it.
> On the other hand, Android also just shows screenshots :)
>
> On September 10th, 2015, 1:51 p.m. CEST, *Marco Martin* wrote:
>
> i think as well having an alpha channel would be much prettier, however would 
> require a specialized tool and would be slightly harder to do, needs to be as 
> easy and fast for the VDG people to do them quickly. (also applets that make 
> sense only as an expanded popup like kickoff would work better with the 
> wallpaper i think?)
>
> On September 10th, 2015, 2:06 p.m. CEST, *Martin Gräßlin* wrote:
>
> maybe we could get an easy "screenshot mode" into plasmoidviewer? So that it
> - hides the background
> - uses correct size
> - saves it with a standardized name
>
> Kickoff exposes another problem: some applets will need KWin help. Taking the 
> screenshot without a background won't work for them, though the background 
> hardly matters if we get the area around as translucent.
>
> I too am worried about the screenshots getting out of date. Just for this 
> release the digital-clock got some serious overhaul in its looks. Now I'm not 
> opposed to the idea itself, but I don't think this scales too well. This 
> would need a dedicated person to review _all_ applets before release and 
> compare the screenshots...and from experience I don't believe we can keep 
> this up.
>
>
> - Martin
>
> On September 10th, 2015, 12:53 p.m. CEST, Marco Martin wrote:
> Review request for Plasma and andreas kainz.
> By Marco Martin.
>
> *Updated Sept. 10, 2015, 12:53 p.m.*
> *Repository: * plasma-desktop
> Description
>
> 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
>
> Diffs
>
>    - desktoppackage/contents/explorer/AppletDelegate.qml (7ded06e)
>
> View Diff <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/125135/diff/>
> File Attachments
> - snapshot6.png
> <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2015/09/10/73db8a25-adaa-4d18-9aa5-35f2c5156ad4__snapshot6.png>
>
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