{"id":634,"date":"2008-09-18T23:09:38","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T23:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/index.php\/BlaBla\/Handle_things_with_style"},"modified":"2008-09-18T23:09:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-18T23:09:38","slug":"handle_things_with_style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/handle_things_with_style\/","title":{"rendered":"Handle things with style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did some work on the code of that little tiny things that lets you move and configure the Plasma applets, the poor ol&#8217;applet handles that really needed some visual love(tm) and some speedups, so the result is the following:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/newhandles.png\"><img  src = \"\/images\/tn_newhandles.png\"  alt=\"KDE 4.2 applet handles\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s started from a Nuno mockup he did quite some time ago, and while the graphics will probably be a lot more refined than they are now (i.e. become closer to the mockup), i think code wise we are definitely here \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>First of all the old icons were so-so, partly because we didn&#8217;t have the exactly right metaphore partly because they eren&#8217;t designed for that kind of background, so now they are Plasma-theme specific, the default is a set of very simple monocrome shapes but more recognizable. In the future these little thingies will be used all across Plasma, so more power to theme creators, yay \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Now the handle also uses a svg background from the plasma theme, it behaves differently (so always in the right way i hope:) for different types and sizes of applets and has a new cute sliding animation that makes the thing to feel more &#8220;attached&#8221; to the applet itself.<\/p>\n<p>And now in youtube-o-vision:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OxhEnly4d-8\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OxhEnly4d-8\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>But you prefer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notmart.org\/files\/applet_handles_4.2.ogv\">Ogg-o-vision<\/a>, don&#8217;tyou? \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did some work on the code of that little tiny things that lets you move and configure the Plasma applets, the poor ol&#8217;applet handles that really needed some visual love(tm) and some speedups, so the result is the following: It&#8217;s started from a Nuno mockup he did quite some time ago, and while the graphics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2,10,21,7],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blabla","tag-kde","tag-kde4","tag-linux","tag-plasma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634","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=634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notmart.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}