SoC weekly report - issue 5

Five weeks have passed and now is when I’ve just started to tame Plasma. Let’s start with the snapshots.

Now when an applet doesn’t fit in the current containment it’s sent to the next availiable one. I’ve also added a header on top of the containments with a label which will allow users to name the containments.

Applets in a column are now hidden when the Context View widget is resized and there is not enough space to paint them in a usable way. They are shown again when there is enough space for them.

What I’m currently missing is a way to highlight the current selected containment. I’m thinking of using a glowing border on the containment to accomplish that.

Next week I’ll be working in redesign the Current Track applet and in a different approach to add applets to the Context View.

The applet browser approach to add applets might not be the better way in our case so I’ve been thinking of something like this:

I hope I can get some artwork help. These are early mockups but (I hope) they do not need much explanation.

In the redesign of the Current Track applet I’ve asked a friend with actual artistic skills to do a mockup and he did an excellent job IMHO. This is what he did.

Thanks Jacobo