On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:

On Thursday 13 January 2011 20:09:24 Roman Bysh wrote:

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Dear List mates,

We've had this problem for quite some time. When adjusting the panel height, it stills show the incorrect height in pixels at 936. It should show 36 pixels. It appears that it may be measuring from the top of the screen.

In addition, this makes it impossible to place the "fancy task panel" at the bottom of the screen if the main panel is located at the top. If it is at the bottom, one panel overlaps the other.

I know what you mean, but is there a report for this at bugs.kde.org already? Aaron Seigo and others are in active bug squashing mode there.

Will

I was told by someone else that this is an openSUSE-specific patch, so the feature doesn't exist upstream. Is this accurate? If so, reporting it to bugs.kde.org wouldn't help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On 01/15/2011 06:11 PM, Will Stephenson wrote:

On Friday 14 January 2011 18:24:19 todd rme wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Will Stephenson

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On Thursday 13 January 2011 20:09:24 Roman Bysh wrote:

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Dear List mates,

We've had this problem for quite some time. When adjusting the panel height, it stills show the incorrect height in pixels at 936. It should show 36 pixels. It appears that it may be measuring from the top of the screen.

In addition, this makes it impossible to place the "fancy task panel" at the bottom of the screen if the main panel is located at the top. If it is at the bottom, one panel overlaps the other.

I know what you mean, but is there a report for this at bugs.kde.org already? Aaron Seigo and others are in active bug squashing mode there.

Will

I was told by someone else that this is an openSUSE-specific patch, so the feature doesn't exist upstream. Is this accurate? If so, reporting it to bugs.kde.org wouldn't help.

Oh dear, you're right. See KDE:Distro:Factory kdelibs4 plasma-panel-resize- hint.diff. Consider me on it, unless someone with a grasp of basic maths gets there first ;).

Will

Thanks Todd for the heads up. Will, glad you found the .diff file to fix the plasma-panel. Close one ;-) -- Cheers! Roman openSUSE 11.3 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop "http://counter.li.org" #179293 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On 01/15/2011 10:35 PM, todd rme wrote:

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Roman Bysh wrote:

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On 01/15/2011 06:11 PM, Will Stephenson wrote:

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On Friday 14 January 2011 18:24:19 todd rme wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Will Stephenson

wrote:

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On Thursday 13 January 2011 20:09:24 Roman Bysh wrote:

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Dear List mates,

We've had this problem for quite some time. When adjusting the panel height, it stills show the incorrect height in pixels at 936. It should show 36 pixels. It appears that it may be measuring from the top of the screen.

In addition, this makes it impossible to place the "fancy task panel" at the bottom of the screen if the main panel is located at the top. If it is at the bottom, one panel overlaps the other.

I know what you mean, but is there a report for this at bugs.kde.org already? Aaron Seigo and others are in active bug squashing mode there.

Will

I was told by someone else that this is an openSUSE-specific patch, so the feature doesn't exist upstream. Is this accurate? If so, reporting it to bugs.kde.org wouldn't help.

Oh dear, you're right. See KDE:Distro:Factory kdelibs4 plasma-panel-resize- hint.diff. Consider me on it, unless someone with a grasp of basic maths gets there first ;).

Will

Thanks Todd for the heads up.

Will, glad you found the .diff file to fix the plasma-panel. Close one ;-)

Has this patch been rejected upstream? If not, someone should probably try to push it upstream for 4.7.

But before that, I do have a request, if possible. There have been a lot of requests to be able to precisely change the size of the panel. I think a good solution would be to allow people to change the size in one-pixel increments by rotating the mouse wheel over the number. Would it be possible to include this feature? This would allow someone to get the size roughly right by dragging, then fine-tune it using the mouse wheel.

-Todd

Todd, If the panel can be fixed over the weekend, the panel can be ready before the release of 11.4 RC1. Has this request been logged with bugzilla ? I also submit requests with bugs.kde.org. -- Cheers! Roman openSUSE 11.3 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop "http://counter.li.org" #179293 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On 01/16/2011 11:26 AM, todd rme wrote:

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM, Roman Bysh wrote:

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On 01/15/2011 10:35 PM, todd rme wrote:

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On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:55 PM, Roman Bysh wrote:

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On 01/15/2011 06:11 PM, Will Stephenson wrote:

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On Friday 14 January 2011 18:24:19 todd rme wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Will Stephenson

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> On Thursday 13 January 2011 20:09:24 Roman Bysh wrote: > > > >> Dear List mates, >> >> We've had this problem for quite some time. When adjusting the panel >> height, it stills show the incorrect height in pixels at 936. >> It should show 36 pixels. It appears that it may be measuring from the >> top of the screen. >> >> In addition, this makes it impossible to place the "fancy task panel" at >> the bottom of the screen if the main panel is >> located at the top. If it is at the bottom, one panel overlaps the >> other. >> >> >> > I know what you mean, but is there a report for this at bugs.kde.org > already? Aaron Seigo and others are in active bug squashing mode there. > > Will > > > I was told by someone else that this is an openSUSE-specific patch, so the feature doesn't exist upstream. Is this accurate? If so, reporting it to bugs.kde.org wouldn't help.

Oh dear, you're right. See KDE:Distro:Factory kdelibs4 plasma-panel-resize- hint.diff. Consider me on it, unless someone with a grasp of basic maths gets there first ;).

Will

Thanks Todd for the heads up.

Will, glad you found the .diff file to fix the plasma-panel. Close one ;-)

Has this patch been rejected upstream? If not, someone should probably try to push it upstream for 4.7.

But before that, I do have a request, if possible. There have been a lot of requests to be able to precisely change the size of the panel. I think a good solution would be to allow people to change the size in one-pixel increments by rotating the mouse wheel over the number. Would it be possible to include this feature? This would allow someone to get the size roughly right by dragging, then fine-tune it using the mouse wheel.

-Todd

Todd,

If the panel can be fixed over the weekend, the panel can be ready before the release of 11.4 RC1.

I think you are misunderstanding. Currently this is an openSUSE-specific feature, it is not included with the vanilla version of plasma. My questions is whether this can be submitted to the plasma developers for inclusion in the official version of plasma.

Since KDE SC 4.6 has been in feature freeze for months, if you did this it would not ship with the default KDE until 4.7. openSUSE could continue to use their own patch until then, then remove the patch when the feature is included in the vanilla release.

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Has this request been logged with bugzilla ? I also submit requests with bugs.kde.org.

Yes: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=260391

But I submitted that before I learned this was an openSUSE-specific feature and not part of upstream KDE. The feature is useless without the openSUSE-specific patch.

I would close the bug report, but my hope was that openSUSE would try to get the patch incorporated upstream, at which point the bug report would be valid.

-Todd

Now I understand. This is definitely a question for Will to answer. Hopefully, he can incorporate it upstream. Cheers! Roman openSUSE 11.3 2.6.34.7-0.7-desktop "http://counter.li.org" #179293 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On 2011/01/16 21:05 (GMT+0100) Will Stephenson composed:

when the current upstream design intention is 'you don't need to know the exact panel size in pixels'.

How is the panel's default height specified? Is there some systemwide global specification or configuration file? I'd like to be able to change its default globally as soon as an installation is complete. I rarely find its initial height to be more than about 2/3 of what it needs to be at any display resolution of 1024x768 or less, rarely using a display DPI of less than 120. cf. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229984 and consider voting. -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On 2011/01/17 12:58 (GMT+0100) Will Stephenson composed:

Felix Miata wrote:

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How is the panel's default height specified? Is there some systemwide global specification or configuration file? I'd like to be able to change its default globally as soon as an installation is complete. I rarely find its initial height to be more than about 2/3 of what it needs to be at any display resolution of 1024x768 or less, rarely using a display DPI of less than 120.

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cf. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=229984 and consider voting.

The script at

/usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma/layout-templates/org.kde.plasma- desktop.defaultPanel/contents/layout.js

creates the default panel and sets its height.

Thank you! https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263562 filed to request this be more sophisticated, DPI based. -- "How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver." Proverbs 16:16 NKJV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org