| Summary: | Specify panel width & height by entering a value | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | Alan Prescott <alanjprescott> |
| Component: | Panel | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED NOT A BUG | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | kde, lukasas, nate, richard.llom |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | master | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
| Attachments: | Mockup | ||
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Description
Alan Prescott
2009-03-10 10:17:08 UTC
why do you care about the exact number of pixels in your panel? :) the "original width" of a panel is 100%, which is easy to set, so I don't understand why you would want an extra button for that. there won't be a dialog for entering the size of the panel in pixels. you might be able to make a case for displaying the size as it's being changed, though. also, someday there should be a dbus interface that'll let you control things precisely... when that happens depends on whether we get a good soc application for it this summer. oh. you were talking about width of a vertical panel (or height of a horizonal panel) weren't you? I understand why you want a reset button now :) Ok - part of the reason I'm finding it a pain setting the width of a panel exactly is that I keep having to do it. I use a secondary panel on the right of the screen which I use as a 'quick launch' for frequently used apps (I prefer to use a panel rather than the Quicklaunch plasma applet as it obeys Fitt's law). Frequently when I re-login, this panel (though not the main one at the bottom of the screen) loses some of its settings such as the order of the icons and width so I have to keep re-setting them by hand. I have reported this as a bug, got an upgrade, tested the upgrade, reported the bug as fixed, got another upgrade, found the bug again ... I will report it again and leave it there over a couple of upgrades but I thought I'd wait until 4.2.1 (which I now have and will check) Created attachment 47728 [details]
Mockup
This shows a mockup of how the value could be specified exactly (in pixels in this case).
The only comment I have on the mockup is a lack of units. Ok, I realise we're talking pixels here but it needn't be ... I don't know if it's possible to do it but a percentage of screen height/width might be useful (with a minimum pixels?) where you have roaming profiles. I log in on a desktop with a 1680x1050 screen and an old laptop at 1024x768 - in these cases I may well want a different width (in pixels) or only a percentage of the screen taken up by the panel. I know this is starting to get complicated with roaming profiles across a range of monitor resolutions - I'm just making suggestions. As of KDE 4.10 RC2: Upon changing the width of a vertical bar (height if horizontal bar), you can see now the width in pixels... I think that's an openSUSE addition. Definitely it's not upstream default KDE behaviour. KDE 4.10 still doesn't solve this. Can we please extend this to width *and* height of vertical/horinzontal bars. For example: I have to vertical panels here (one on the left, one on the right side). They both should have the same width, but also height (which isn't 100% of screen height, but 95%). Currently there is no way for me to configure or to control this... :-( Why has a really old bug been moved here? It's been rediscussed already, see relevant duplicate somewhere in plasmashell. |