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Submitted:  Apr 24 2006

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While compiling in Konosle today - I had an idea. This sort of goes along with what is already on the plasma web site with the detachable reminders. It would be very nice to be able to hook together or nest different application windows together. My example is konsole with the performance monitors of Ksysgaurd. That way you could compile and watch cpu level, or freq, or whatever.

Othere uses could be inside koffice - you could have a nested widget to check an online dictionary while still in your writing app.

Putting an amarok corner win konqueror while web browsing.

This might be easier to implement as most programs having features that can be reduced to a sidebar, and then being able to attach that sidebar (Borderless?) to another program.

Some of this could boil down to simple customization options, but I think there is great potential for usability and extended functionality here.




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 well

 
 by Superstoned on: Apr 24 2006
 
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it would require the apps to support it, but if they do, it could work out. maybe this can be solved by plasmoids - let apps support a 'plasmoid mode' in which they can do this kind of stuff like attaching or embedding in other windows, screencorners and desktop...


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 I like

 
 by nadim on: Apr 24 2006
 
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Great idea. I wish you explained how to do that too. IMO, the applications shouldn't have to know about each other. The window manager could do the job.


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 great idea!

 
 by ziuchkov on: Apr 24 2006
 
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Following up on what has already been said, I would think the best way to do it would be at the level of the window manager, but have the option to add 'awareness' type of code to applications that wish to further support the embedding. For example, an application that has special "knowledge" of docking plasmoids would send a signal to the window manager telling it that the app would like to receive docking event signals. The app could then send further information like:
- allow docking only in specified area: (rect coords)
- disable docking altogether

Then whenever the window manager is about to dock or undock a plasmoid, it would pass along information about the applet that is about to be docked. (Things such as the area of the applet, the coordinates it is docked at, maybe some pid info or dcop handles, etc.) Also, it would pass along information when applets are removed. This would allow the application (such as konsole or whatever) to move things around accordingly.

Anyway, that's just my two cents.


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 Get out of my brain!

 
 by stoanhart on: Apr 25 2006
 
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Wow - I just came on to post this idea, only to see it at the top with a nice little fresh label... weird.

I was thinking more along the lines of being able to clip windows together, though. You know, minimze one, and they all minimize, they are treates as one to alt tab, click on one, they all come up, drag one, they all stay together.

That would be sweet!


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 Great idea

 
 by ajdlinux on: Apr 25 2006
 
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This idea is brilliant! You could sort of make a system of 'everything is a dockable window' so you could, let's say, dock everything into Konqueror and use it for everything - controlling your media player, compiling your kernel, watching your CPU status, and maybe even browsing the web and looking through files :) Or many applications could be docked into the Kicker as well.

Just my 2c,
andrew


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 Wanna have it, mum!

 
 by debian1993 on: Apr 25 2006
 
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Yes that's really awesome. By the way do you know wmii. It's a window manager that already uses this principle in a very advanced way by using the full desktop for all applications. Look here: http://wmii.de/


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