On Wednesday 17 August 2016 00:13:08 Michail Vourlakos wrote: > 1. This panel should be able to set its size(width and height) according > to the visual which is shown. I tried, > > Layout.*widths and Layout.*heights to set them in a fixed size but > nothing happened. > > Is it possible to do that? to set the panels size with enforcement?
the panel can expose a size hint, but it's the user that decides what is the wiggle room of it. if on the panel controller you put with the handles a very small minimum size and a big maximum size, then the panel should be able to resize itself within those limits > > 2. The panel which was created is the default empty panel which is used > in Plasma. When I right click my visual to go to old configuration > dialog of the plasmoid instead of the configuration window, the panel's > settings are appearing next to the panel (Add widgets, set size, etc)... > is it possible to override this? or open the old configuration dialog? no, not for panel containments, i would not be sure how to make a normal config dialog available > 3. Is it possible to tell the panel to not draw its background, as the > plasmoids can do? in order to support transparency? but keep the > plasma's theme untouched? this should be added into plasmashell, and may be a good idea (would just be by setting plasmoid.backgroundHints to none) I would like to try to add that, but should be a Plasma 5.9 feature i think -- Marco Martin