Bug 187630

Summary: Kget Panel Plasmoid should become smaller if there are no downloads
Product: [Applications] kget Reporter: Johannes Felko <kdebugs>
Component: plasma widgetAssignee: KGet authors <kget>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: wishlist CC: mat69
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Johannes Felko 2009-03-19 19:57:30 UTC 
Version:           2.2.1 (using KDE 4.2.1)
Compiler:          GCC 4.3.3, cmake 2.6.3 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

The plasmoid takes a lot of place if it is active, however this place would not be needed if it is not active. It would be nice if the plasmoid could become smaller and for example show the "no download active icon" which is used in systray.
Comment 1 Matthias Fuchs 2010-08-11 20:27:05 UTC 
I am not sure if I understand your suggestion. So you mean that the kget applet would resize itself to something smaller if aren't downloading something, or if KGet is not running?

Is this suggestion solely of aesthetic reason or would that free space be used elsewhere? The reason I ask this is that I am not sure what you want to do with the freespace.

In an unrelated note it is possible to move the applet into the systray, that way you could save some space already. :)
Comment 2 Johannes Felko 2010-08-12 16:56:40 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> I am not sure if I understand your suggestion. So you mean that the kget applet
> would resize itself to something smaller if aren't downloading something, or if
> KGet is not running?

It would resize itself when Kget isn't downloading anything.

> Is this suggestion solely of aesthetic reason or would that free space be used
> elsewhere? The reason I ask this is that I am not sure what you want to do with
> the freespace.

The freespace would have been used for the Task Manager in the Panel, however since Stasks and other fancy plasmoids space isn't a major problem anymore.

> In an unrelated note it is possible to move the applet into the systray, that
> way you could save some space already. :)
Didn't know that. Well the bug was filed in 4.2.1. I'll look at KDE SC 4.5 and close it, if it fits my needs.

Thank you for answering

Johannes
Comment 3 Johannes Felko 2018-09-19 16:20:26 UTC 
Closing because it's over 9 years old and I couldn't reproduce it for the life of me and am not using Kget anymore.
Sorry for keeping it open that long.
Cheers
Johannes