2. Change Panel's Thickness from client side
As I have understood it, the plasma panels change their thickness only
by the user setting its value. I would like this to be able to be
changed from the panel's client qml codepage. I tried to expose
thickness with Layout.preferredWidth and preferredHeight but this
didnt go quite well because it breaks current implementatation. I
tried containment.implicitWidth... but this isnt exposed at all. Do
you have any ideas how this should be implemented in order to not
break current implementation?
for this I found a solution by adding to the client plasma panel a
property int thickness /// variable
and binding it correctly with the panelview
3. "Real" Panel Transparency
Docks are panels that not only have a visual transparent background
but also they pass the mouse events to go underneath their transparent
areas. This is also the way Plank is doing it. It creates a big window
that for the transparent background leaves all the mouse events go
underneath. I believe plasma panels are Qt windows managed from KWin,
I think Qt is offering this feature by setting some flags for the
window. Do you have any ideas for this?
for this I found a solution by adding in the panel view a new variable
QRect m_maskArea
which is exposed and lets the client code to set the mask for the panel,
it uses setMask from QWindow...
what do you think?
