Panel Spacer

Source (link to git-repo or to original if based on someone elses unmodified work): Add the source-code for this project on opencode.net

Description:

This plasmoid let you put some blank space between the other applets located in a panel. You can set a minimum fixed size and/or allow the spacer
to stretch if there is free space on the right. Optionally, you can display a thin separator line.

This is useful if you want to place a plasmoid on the right in a panel, if you want to do logical groups of icons in your panel, etc.

Some ideas : there should be an easy way to do that in Plasma (maybe something to set the stretch factor or the minimal/maximal size of an applet directly from the panel-settings-toolbar ?). Moreover, maybe the plasma theme specs should be extended to include a SVG for separators.

Comments, patchs, code review (I'm quite new to this) are welcome :)

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0.1
- Kubuntu Intrepid package (checkinstall)
- Fedora 9 package by Phobeus, thanks ! More info here : http://www.floriansievert.de/linux/repo/english.html
- Kubuntu Hardy package (done with Checkinstall. It install in /usr/lib/kde4).
- Gentoo Ebuild, thanks Devel0per

Last changelog:

12 years ago

-0.2 (source only)
This is the version from Kde SVN playground. Some code cleanup and an improved calculation of the max stretch size (thanks Petri)

- 0.1 first release

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smihael
12 years ago

I (Mihael Simonič) made Debian amd64 package.

You can get it here:
http://smihael.bplaced.net/plasmoids/binary/panel-spacer_0.1-1_amd64.deb

or add following text to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://smihael.bplaced.net/plasmoids/ binary/

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Rulatir
11 years ago

Pleasepleasepleaseplease!

WHENEVER:

- you refer to a Playground item,

ALWAYS:

- do give the _exact_ full svn line to check out the sources. The websvn url is NOT what one needs when one wants to actually checkout the sources and build the stuff.

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Rulatir
11 years ago

Ooops! This wasn't intended to you. Your comment was visually similar to the one I intended to reply to. Sorry.

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BSDKaffee
12 years ago

A FreeBSD port has been created for this plasmoid: deskutils/plasma-applet-panelspacer

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devel0per
12 years ago

Thank you for good work.

Ebuild for Gentoo hackers is here - http://sonylaptoptools.sourceforge.net/ebuilds/panelspacer-0.1.ebuild

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srog
12 years ago

There is a updated sign but the source is still 89304-panelspacer0.1.tar.gz and the Changelog:
- 0.1 first release.

Is this updated ?

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DanaKil
12 years ago

sorry, I just added a kubuntu package. The source is not updated (I will do some minor cleaning but nothing important)

Other packages and comments about this package are welcome (don't know if it works)

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Contrast
12 years ago

The lack of this was actually keeping me from using a panel at all, so big thanks.

One note for anyone else that might run into the problem I had. The makefile installs the files to /usr/local/lib/kde4/plasma_applet_panelspacer.so and /usr/local/share/kde4/services/plasma-applet-panelspacer.desktop, but Plasma wasn't picking up the applet from that location on my system (Kubuntu 8.10 Alpha 6). This is easily remedied by moving the files to /usr/lib/kde4 and /usr/share/kde4/services, respectively. I'm pretty sure there's a way to tell CMake what directory to install to, but I was feeling lazy and that worked well enough for me. :)

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Yggdrasill
12 years ago

Simply what I needed for my desktop.

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srog
12 years ago

This is a good idea.

Especially i like: "I'm a PanelSpacer so i'm quite useless here... Please put me in a panel !" ;)

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mtadeunet
12 years ago

I was waiting for something like this...thanks a lot :)

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PARENA
12 years ago

Absolutely great. This brings a much appreciated bit of customization to my panel. Good job!

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12 years ago

-0.2 (source only)
This is the version from Kde SVN playground. Some code cleanup and an improved calculation of the max stretch size (thanks Petri)

- 0.1 first release