From: Matthias Ettrich 
To: kde-devel@alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de
Subject: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player]
Date: 	Thu, 13 May 1999 15:47:23 +0200

On Thu, 13 May 1999, Steffen Hansen wrote:
>On Thu, 13 May 1999, Martin Konold wrote:
>
>> > I would hate if I had to open menus in a media player, and I think other people
>> > too, btw. a menubar
>> > in such a programm looks really ugly IMO and takes a lot of space.
>> 
>> Well, imho in order to gain a kde complient kde app you can simply take
>> the kvt/konsole approach of hiding the menubar.
>
>Requiring a menubar is braindamaged. Small applications (applets)
>shouldn't need to have a menubar.

That reminds me on something. Shall we support panel applets in KDE-2.0 as well?

The screens are getting bigger and bigger these days, people with 1600x1200
resolution (like me :-) would maybe like to to have a bigger panel that
actually is big enough to support applets. Together with the new 48x48 icons
this may look quite nifty.

Of course we'll still continue to support small and tiny space-saving panels as
we do with KDE today, those won't handle applets, though, "just" docking.

Opinions?

If people like it and (even more important) people are willing to write some
nifty applets, I'll volunteer to write both the KApplet and the KAppletDock
class.

Applet writing will then simple mean inheriting KApplet instead of QWidget,
everything else will work magically.

We also would need some standard sizes, applet designers can rely on. Most
certainly an applet should be scalable, but the designers should have some
hints what's the target size.

Pietro, would you help with integrating the KAppletDock in kpanel?

Matthias