{"id":411,"date":"2008-05-18T15:40:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T15:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/index.php\/Software\/Enlarge_your_panel"},"modified":"2008-05-18T15:40:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T15:40:07","slug":"enlarge_your_panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/enlarge_your_panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Enlarge your panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plasma for KDE 4.1 is coming along nicely, probably it won’t have everything we wanted to but i think it’s an huge improvement already compared to 4.0.x series.
\nA feature i did for 4.1 is to make panels really easy to configure and make exactly how you want, even an insane layout like that:<\/p>\n

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The panel configuration dialog that was in 4.0.x was killed and replaced with that strange thing that appears when you click on the little panel toolbox that spots a wordprocessor-like ruler complete with paragraph alignment buttons:<\/p>\n

\"Panel<\/a><\/p>\n

This would seem quite complex, but it’s the most powerful way that catches the future development of the panel even beyond 4.2. Why?
\nin KDE 4.1 the panels will be able to automatically grow\/shrink when you add and remove applets (in the future also applets like the task manager will be able to make the panel grow or shrink, that’s 4.2 stuff), so you could want to set where the panel starts, the direction where it grows and a maximum and minimum sizes that limits the growth\/shrink of the panel. so it’s like a paragraph aligned to the left, center or right of the page, so here we go with the three paragraph alignment buttons \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So if the panel can enlarge\/shrink itself it’a also necessary to setmaximum and minimum boundaries beyond you don’t want the panel to resize (and the default will still be both maximum and minimum witdth to 100%) and here we have the three little ruler handles, that sets respectively:
\nwhite: panel position relative to the left, center or roght anchor point
\nblue: maximum panel size
\ngreen minimum size<\/p>\n

Since a video is worth more than 1024 words here it is:<\/p>\n

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And since flash sucks here<\/a> it is a bigger theora file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plasma for KDE 4.1 is coming along nicely, probably it won’t have everything we wanted to but i think it’s an huge improvement already compared to 4.0.x series. A feature i did for 4.1 is to make panels really easy to configure and make exactly how you want, even an insane layout like that: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2,10,96,7],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-kde","tag-kde4","tag-panel","tag-plasma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}