> 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
I sure hope so! :-) I was getting kinda scared at that slow performance!! :-O > > > 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. In that case, then why not have the ability to drag widgets between activities? That sounds like a sensible idea! Other wise, dragging widgets around zoomed out (from what I can see) doesn't have much of a purpose. > > 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. That sounds pretty sweet....... > > 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. That makes plenty of sense. But still, I wonder if there isn't a more elegant solution.
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