On Saturday 22 November 2008, Jesse L. Zamora wrote: > 1. Why does Plasma slow down so much when you zoom out to see the > activities?
because it does all the scaling in software. that == slowness. > Is there any way to increase the performance? not doing it software. qt 4.5 is probably when this will be available to us. > 2. Why doesn't it have the capability to just click on the activity you > want to zoom in to it? I find that clicking the cashew is somewhat > burdensome. clicking on the activity would mean you can't interact with them when zoomed out ... that's not what we want. it's a little bit of magic behaviour. the plan (for 4.2 even) is to hide the cashew when zoomed and instead show a "control bar" beneath each containment with some basic action buttons. not unlike the panel controler in that way. > 3. Why is the background the color it is? The transparent > checkered box background looks, well, it looks unpolished. it's a simple, fast to paint background that says very clearly "this is blank space". it's common in other canvas based apps that users are more likely to be famliar with: drawing and painting apps. when it wasn't that checkerboard people would ask what was going on when they zoomed out, what happened to the background, etc. so i put clarity over beauty in this case. i've thought about a gradient, but that would be a rather unecessary abuse of horsepower imo ... i've though about putting a default wallpaper there but that stands a really good chance of making the activities harder to see. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Software
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