Comments on: Resizing plasmoids

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:51:29 +0000

Thanks a lot!
Good for you, my exams are just coming up…
and good luck with the results!

By: randomguy3

randomguy3 — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:39:40 +0000

@Dennis:

Plasma has changed substantially since I wrote this, because of the inclusion of widgets-on-canvas in Qt 4.4. Having just finished my exams, I’m still catching up with recent plasma developments.

I’d suggest #plasma on IRC (irc.freenode.org) for asking questions.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:43:43 +0000

I’m trying to implement my own widget, and I’ve gotten some inspiration from nowplaying. But the version in KDE 4.0.80 doesn’t seem to include the patch you’re talking about here.

Where can I get it? I want my plasmoid to resize nicely as well.
If you can point me to any resources that’d be great!

By: Thomas Zander

Thomas Zander — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:47:19 +0000

What about this; http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Libs/Modifier_keys

By: Aurélien Gâteau

Aurélien Gâteau — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:40:55 +0000

@Racchio: +1, my opinion too

By: randomguy3

randomguy3 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:54:19 +0000

Actually, I was thinking that a separate “resize” button would be best. So the rotate button would only rotate, and the resize button would resize freely, but you could hold CTRL to keep the aspect ratio.

This, really, was just a simple way to allow free resizing without changing existing behaviour.

By: Racchio

Racchio — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:44:06 +0000

This is good but why don’t use the same behaviour many graphical apps have? Generally holding CTRL while resizing is used to KEEP the aspect ratio, I think it would be more usable to resize plasma applets the same way, what do you think about it?

By: what I’ve learnt about plasma « ChaniBlog

what I’ve learnt about plasma « ChaniBlog — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:31:10 +0000

[...] should also be raised hasn’t been decided afaik. new thing in today’s plasma: thanks to Alex, holding ctrl while resizing allows you to change the aspect ratio. dunno how this actually works [...]

By: kwilliam

kwilliam — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:30:28 +0000

Hallelujah! Down with the aspect ratio chains! We are free!!!

By: randomguy3

randomguy3 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 14:19:34 +0000

The reason I didn’t go with that was that there have been CPU usage issues with scrolling text, as demonstrated by the news ticker applet.

If I can do it without hammering the system, then I’ll go for it. But it’s better like this than changing the text size for every song, in my opinion.

Actually, if the scrolling was a character every second (or half-second) rather than “smooth” scrolling, that would probably work.