Re: What needs to improve in KDE 4?
2010/5/10 Iker Salmón San Millán <shaola@esdebian.org>:
> I was thinking about opening a new thread to talk about the device notifier,
> but i found this message so i will do it here.
>
> I think there is something wrong with this plasmoid, there is a bug report
> talking about it but it's being ignored for now.
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=226710
>
>
> As you see in this picture:
> http://www.esdebian.org/files/esdebian.org/u26290/notificadorescritorio.jpeg
> the text stands out together with the button to unmount the device, but when
> it is on the panel this does not happen, making it imposible to unmount the
> device as you see in this other picture:
> http://www.esdebian.org/files/esdebian.org/u26290/notificadorbarra.jpeg
>
> At the beginning, i thougth that the problem was only related with
> localication languages, but after some tests, now i have another conclusion.
>
> I think that the position of the button, depends not only on the size of the
> plasmoid, because when the plasmoid is smaller than the lengh of the text of
> the mainlabel, the button is alligned right and bellow the last letter of
> the text
>
> This also happens even when it's in english with low resolutions and/or
> too big font sizes. I've been reading the code of the plasmoid trying to
> underestand it in order to learn how to make some changes to make the button
> appear always inside the plasmoid no matter how long the length of the text
> in the "m_mainlabel" is, however i am a newbie in this matters. The only
> thing i found is this:
>
> "category->setAlignment(Qt::AlignRight);"
>
> by the way why AlignRight? if you see the first picture i think that the
> label with the description of the device "Volumen de almacenamiento"
> aligned right is not the best option.
>
> By now, i have solved "my" problem by changing the spanish translation but i
> don't think that's an elegant solution:
> http://www.esdebian.org/files/esdebian.org/u26290/notificadormodificad.jpeg
>
> as you see, when the text is short enough this problem does not appear.
>
> cheers!
>
Thanks, please mention that info on the bug. And you might want to
vote for this Device Notifier feature request:
http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea87620_page1
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