On Tuesday 11 August 2009 19:39:01 Chani wrote: > 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.
That's precisely my concern too. > although there are things that could be improved in plasmoidviewer > that'd also help developers, I guess. > > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
