On Monday 15 December 2008 23:16:32 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday 15 December 2008, Sascha Peilicke wrote: > > Mouse interaction was removed completely, this caused all sort of weird > > troubles when interacting with plasma widgets (instead rotates the globe > > or vice versa). > > are you saying that mouse events passed to the wallpaper would end up > passed to the widget as well? were you accept()ing the mouse event passed > in? if these are bugs in libplasma, i'd like to know about them so they can > be fixed. =) Not that I know of, events are accept()-ed, it just feels wrong to have direct mouse interaction with the background. As a user I get confused whether I'm actually interacting with my plasmoids or with the globe behind it. So it's just about usability, which is arguable, of course.
> > Maybe we should also change the name from "The Earth" to something more > > descriptive or just "Marble globe" to advertise this great technology ^^ > > "The Earth" is pretty descriptive, i think =) it's more obvious what it is > compared to "Marble Globe" as well (i wouldn't know what that was if i > didn't know that Marble was a KDE mapping application). in plasma we have a > policy of not showing the technical name of something (jargon) when there > is a functional name to it. ergo things like Activity instead of > Containment. Agreed, my issue is that "The Earth" is currently able to show "The Moon" (the rest of our solar system may follow), so maybe just "Globe" is better. -- Sascha Peilicke http://saschpe.wordpress.com
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