First off, thanks for providing me with an awesome window manager for 10 years now..
I've been using e17 for a few years now (I've been occasionally extracting the source to try to get into helping out with development since e17 started, but "real work" keeps getting in the way...). Anyway, I was wondering if there was some way of having several states of a program... What I'm thinking of is, for example, an mpd client which when opened looks like Emphasis, when iconified has a little scrolling display of what's playing, when dragged on to the desktop / shelf becomes mpdule (could possibly have showing a mpdule-like interface when hovering over the icon of the program?) Then clicking on a specific part of the mpdule-like view of the program would open itsulf fully into the emphasis-like interface... What I'm trying to get at is a way in which there are several different views of a program dependent on how much space they're given to play with, so if they're iconified they can choose to display a plain-old-icon or something more relevant (a mail-program could iconify into showing new-mail count for example), if they're given a little more space they can appear as a gadget (the mail-program could in that case show for example the latest 5 messages in your inbox...) and if the're given an unrestricted window they open their full interface. That way one can have a single executeable running and performing several tasks as necessary. Another example would be a mixer, iconified could show the master volume, gadgeted could show master+pcm+line-in and windowed could have a full pulseaudio volume manager... Or a screenshot icon/gadget that when windowed becomes gimp... This could of course be achieved by simply having gadgets with run-other-command buttons in them, I just thought this might be neater and save running three processes when one would do (couldn't this also save precious recources on embedded systems / mobile phones?) cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Martens email / msn / googletalk: [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
