Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-28 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Monday 28 September 2009 17:06:07 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > Have you actually opened the file in inkscape and looked at it? Even Nuno > told me repeatedly that it's crap. Can't argue with that. > Maybe he was talking of something else? Like the rendering in the panel? I confirm that's the o

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-28 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Monday 28 September 2009 16:44:09 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > > - bad quality of battery.svg > > nah, not battery.svgz, i think we can't get much better than that :-) It's > oxygen after all! :P Have you actually opened the file in inkscape and looked at it? Even Nuno told me repeatedly tha

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-28 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Sunday 27 September 2009 21:10:44 Marco Martin wrote: > this depends from the idea of having in the systray having only system and > hardware items, with all applications moved in the taskbar and maybe the > network ones in some kind of different area... > otherwise yes, wouldn't look particul

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-28 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Sunday 27 September 2009 23:58:56 Marco Martin wrote: > to summarize, here there are 3 problems: > > i don't think good pixel alignment could be reached using just svg, no > matter how good the renderer is (unless we will have someday something as > crazy as the truetype hinting language, som

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-28 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Sunday 27 September 2009 23:19:41 Sebastian Kügler wrote: [...] > The problem might be that the battery.svg has not been touched by an artist > in two years. I've hacked an icon's SVG from lng ago into the > battery.svg theme. I'm bad at Inkscape today, and I certainly had any > concept o

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-28 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Monday 28 September 2009 05:20:06 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > first thought i have is that if there are different svg's for different > sizes, let's put those different svg's in a file and use them. Yup! I think that Marco is a bit too much optimistic too, but details follow in the mail answerin

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-27 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 27, 2009, Marco Martin wrote: > i don't think good pixel alignment could be reached using just svg, no > matter how good the renderer is (unless we will have someday something as > crazy as the truetype hinting language, something that i don't see in the > near future, not even desi

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-27 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 27 September 2009, Sebastian Kügler wrote: > On Sunday 27 September 2009 15:01:42 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > > On Thursday 24 September 2009 19:22:57 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > how is this any different other than the SVG being pre-rendered vs > > > rendered at runtime? how would we pr

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-27 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Sunday 27 September 2009 15:01:42 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Thursday 24 September 2009 19:22:57 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > how is this any different other than the SVG being pre-rendered vs > > rendered at runtime? how would we provide for nice sizing? and how would > > the animations that

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-27 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 27 September 2009, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Sunday 27 September 2009 15:32:27 Marco Martin wrote: > > speaking of wich, i woud really like to have some systray icons dependent > > from the plasma theme (i.e. mostly monochrome systray, but this should > > look totally different be

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-27 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Sunday 27 September 2009 15:32:27 Marco Martin wrote: > speaking of wich, i woud really like to have some systray icons dependent > from the plasma theme (i.e. mostly monochrome systray, but this should > look totally different between air and oxygen for instance. (and with the > new protoco

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-27 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 27 September 2009, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Thursday 24 September 2009 19:22:57 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > how is this any different other than the SVG being pre-rendered vs > > rendered at runtime? how would we provide for nice sizing? and how would > > the animations that exist cu

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-27 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Thursday 24 September 2009 19:22:57 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > how is this any different other than the SVG being pre-rendered vs rendered > at runtime? how would we provide for nice sizing? and how would the > animations that exist currently be implemented, such as the power > indicator zoom i

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-24 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 24, 2009, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Wednesday 23 September 2009 10:11:19 Marco Martin wrote: > > this means those plasmoids have to be fixed. in particular the > > battery applet should have a constrainedsquare aspect ratio andstill > > draw the svg as square when the applet is r

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-24 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 24 September 2009, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > On Wednesday 23 September 2009 10:11:19 Marco Martin wrote: > > this means those plasmoids have to be fixed. in particular the > > battery applet should have a constrainedsquare aspect ratio andstill > > draw the svg as square when the app

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-24 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Wednesday 23 September 2009 10:11:19 Marco Martin wrote: > this means those plasmoids have to be fixed. in particular the > battery applet should have a constrainedsquare aspect ratio andstill > draw the svg as square when the applet is rectangular Hm... to be sincere, I think that the batter

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-23 Thread alan moore
Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On September 22, 2009, alan moore wrote: >> My thinking for the solution was to create a sub-containment that would > > and improving the panel and/or the widgets wasn't a possibility? :) > Possible, but for me not very probable; I'm just a simple python hacker. Though

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-23 Thread Marco Martin
On 9/23/09, alan moore wrote: >>> Anyway, with your last sentence you was saying that I could have done a >>> similar thing working directly on containments? >> >> yes, and that's really probably the way to go about it. use cases would >> probably help define what direction to actually take. >> >

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-22 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 22, 2009, alan moore wrote: > My thinking for the solution was to create a sub-containment that would and improving the panel and/or the widgets wasn't a possibility? :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-22 Thread alan moore
>> Anyway, with your last sentence you was saying that I could have done a >> similar thing working directly on containments? > > yes, and that's really probably the way to go about it. use cases would > probably help define what direction to actually take. > I was actually a bit excited when I

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 20, 2009, Giulio Camuffo wrote: > I don't plan to implement e.g. the new > feature that loads the applet depending on the mimetype dropped. this kind of inconsistency is exactly what keeps this kind of approach out of the main modules. why should the user be allowed to only do certai

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-20 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 20 September 2009, Giulio Camuffo wrote: > I know that that functionality belongs in a Containment, but since > containments in containments are not supported i had to use an Applet. > And i know that this applet will never have all the functionalities the > containments have, but this is

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-20 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 20 September 2009, Giulio Camuffo wrote: > Hi! > > I've added in kdereview/plasma/applets an applet i made recently. It is, as > the name suggests, an applet that lets you contain and group other applets. i'm just an ambassandor on that, but apparently it's missing Messages.sh > You can

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-20 Thread Chani
On September 20, 2009 10:29:14 Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > On Sunday 20 September 2009, 14:10 Giulio Camuffo wrote: > > I know that that functionality belongs in a Containment, but since > > containments in containments are not supported i had to use an Applet. > > Hmmare you sure that con

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-20 Thread Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
On Sunday 20 September 2009, 14:10 Giulio Camuffo wrote: > I know that that functionality belongs in a Containment, but since > containments in containments are not supported i had to use an Applet. Hmmare you sure that containments inside containments are not supported ? =( Cheers, ---

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-20 Thread Giulio Camuffo
I know that that functionality belongs in a Containment, but since containments in containments are not supported i had to use an Applet. And i know that this applet will never have all the functionalities the containments have, but this isn't my goal. I wanted to develop a simple applet to group o

Re: Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On September 20, 2009, Giulio Camuffo wrote: > I've added in kdereview/plasma/applets an applet i made recently. It is, as > the name suggests, an applet that lets you contain and group other > applets. this functionality belongs in a Containment, not an Applet. we have two applets right now th

Review request: Container plasma applet

2009-09-20 Thread Giulio Camuffo
Hi! I've added in kdereview/plasma/applets an applet i made recently. It is, as the name suggests, an applet that lets you contain and group other applets. You can put it on the desktop or on the panel and then drag other applets from the add applet widget inside it. it puts the applet in a