Bug 267694

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.6.1) 
OS:                Linux

When you arrange your plasmoids on the screen, their position is stored as the displacement of their bottom left corner to the bottom left corner of the screen expressed as a number of pixels. The plasmoid size is stored as a number of pixels too.

This is not always what is wanted and in many cases one would like to be able to have the plasmoid position registered by a different displacement.

Usage cases:

1) Tom has a laptop, but when at work he prefers working with a larger external screen. The external screen has a resolution different from the laptop screen.
Whenever he works with the external screen the position of the plasmoids that he had carefully aligned to the right edge of the screen get messed.

Solution 1: let Tom specify the top right corner as the anchor point for the calculator that he wants at the top right edge of his screen, so that the position of the calculator is stored as the displacement between the top right corner of the calculator and the top right corner of the screen. Furthermore, let Tom specify the bottom right corner as the anchor point for the trashcan that he wants at the bottom right corner, so that the position of the trashcan is stored as the displacement between the bottom right corner of the trashcan and the bottom right corner of the screen.  When Tom uses the external monitor, the plasmoids are shown in the correct places.

Solution 2: let plasmoids sizes and positions be stored as floats from 0 to 1. Height is stored as the fraction of vertical screen estate the plasmoid takes, Width as the fraction of horizontal screen estate that the plasmoid takes. Similarly, horizontal position is stored as the plasmoid horizontal displacement normalized (divided) by the screen width and vertical position as the vertical displacement normalized by the screen height. In this case too, when the external monitor is used plasmoids are correctly shown at the intended places.

See also 211469. 
 

Reproducible: Didn't try