On Saturday 22 November 2008, Jesse L. Zamora wrote: > > On Saturday 22 November 2008, Jesse L. Zamora wrote: > > > 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?
you can. or at least .. you could. i see that the layout class in DefaultDesktop has broken that. so we need to fix that regression. > > 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....... hopefully .. =) > > > 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. i'm open to suggestions =) -- 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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