15 March, 2008

what, two panels?

Even though it's not friday anymore, I was kind'a inspired by Aaron's blog to start playing with plasma again. Aaron speaks about an add panel patch from Stephan Binner and I had to check it out. So here you go:




As you can see, Plasma now also supports themes, I would love to see the Fluffy Bunny theme get in there by default :D

There still are some issues with layouting of widgets, sometimes they overlay each other. And it's pretty hard to move them on the panel (hint: you can't) (edit: Binner just blogged about a patch he has ready which will make this possible!!!). I hope these can be worked out before a release, as such things are very crucial to a 'finished' feel. But despite these issues, it's getting more and more fun to play with Plasma - pity I forgot to put the ball on those screenshots... (Edit, I didn't forget it, it's there, just look under the comics plasmoid) Yes, a ball. Red. Round. You can throw it around, it bounces of the side of the screen and the panels. Nice demonstration of physics on the Plasma desktop. I wonder who will come up with a patch which lets you throw all widgets around ;-)

Oh, and check the Plasma Roadmap on Techbase, it has some nice stuff already. I hope they can get to all of it...

5 comments:

  1. @theGZeus: yeah, that's a feature waiting for someone to implement/port it ;-)

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  2. Ah I see the trolls still haven't fixed a bug I noticed (and told them about) a couple of years ago. Namely rotated text looks shit. It is all jaggledy and the kerning is way off. Would be cool if someone could fix it (not that I expect many people to actually use rotated post-its!

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  3. i don't think it's actually that easy to mak rotated text fast and nice. other toolkits (e.g wxGTK) just draw into an image non-rotated and then rotate that image. now, qt is a lot of better than that in this area

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