Bug 65247

Summary:	kicker applet changing size
Product:	[Applications] kmldonkey	Reporter:	Aron Fischer <samwise-gamgee>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Petter Stokke <ummo>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex, Stefan.Borggraefe
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.9.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Aron Fischer 2003-09-30 18:07:24 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1.4)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

whenever the download/upload speed changes with a change in the number of sigits (eg. from 8k to 12k) the width of the kmldonkey panel applet changes. thist causes other applets to shift (like the taskbar applet) and causes the clock to blink while the panel is redrawn... this is very annoying (in a headache inducing sort of way).

is there a way to fix the size of the applet?


cheers
Aron

Comment 1 Petter Stokke 2003-10-11 01:33:45 UTC

This is actually a feature. I think the only way to work around the applet's resizing is to have an option 
for running it with a fixed size - I'll make that a wishlist bug.

Comment 2 Caoilte O'Connor 2004-02-04 10:59:30 UTC

It's an annoying feature, I was about to report it to. I love the applet, a fixed size option (and maybe some explanatory tooltips - ?pause button???) would make it perfect.

Comment 3 Leonidas Arvanitis 2004-09-02 02:48:23 UTC

Yes please. It would be great to have the fixed size option.

Comment 4 Eric Hennigan 2004-10-18 05:28:04 UTC

On my machine when the dl/ul speeds and other activity in the kmld applet is updated the panel is redrawn anyway. This causes other items (kmix, kopete, klipper, clock, etc.) to flicker. -- But maybe this is just due to the panel's API.

Comment 5 Christian Muehlhaeuser 2006-03-23 00:12:56 UTC

eric: this is a seperate bug, which you should consider posting here.

cheers,
muesli

Comment 6 Aron Fischer 2006-08-28 12:23:35 UTC

no this is the same bug that eric is describing.

The most annoying thing about the resizing is that everything else on the panel moves and is redrawn. this sometimes causes flickering sometimes it does not, however, in both cases this is visually quite irritating.

We are now almost 3 years into this bug and I have found even more interaction with the panel that is annoying.
By now I am running version 0.10.1 / KDE 3.5.4 and XGL/compiz with transparent panel.  --- you know, once you have compiz, everything has to be somehow transparent ;-) ---
The resizing of the applet causes the transparency to have to be redrawn. The background shifts with the applet resize and is the re-rendered in the original place. This causes a very noticable visual disturbance.

Comment 7 Stefan Borggraefe 2006-08-28 12:58:42 UTC

Another good way to fix this bug would IMHO be to remember the maximum width the applet ever needed and to keep it at that size.

Comment 8 FiNeX 2009-09-20 18:14:29 UTC

This bug is no more reproducible in the KDE 4 version.