Hi Sascha, thanks for looking at the marble wallpaper - that's much appreciated from my side :) I have had no time to look at the patch at all yet, will do so on the weekend.
On Monday 15 December 2008 21:41:16 Sascha Peilicke wrote: > For Frederic Gladhorn and FYI. > > > This patch adds/changes a lot of features to the marble plasma wallpaper in > playground. > > Re-enabled the stars plugin as current Marble trunk doesn't seem to crash > on it any further. Seems good to me, I enabled it again here and have had no trouble with it lately. > Moved to a more generic support for globe rotation schemes to allow > something like "hover on home location" or free rotation (with the marble > navigation plugin). > > Mouse interaction was removed completely, this caused all sort of weird > troubles when interacting with plasma widgets (instead rotates the globe or > vice versa). Mouse scrolling previously used for zooming the globe is also > otherwise reserved for switching workspaces. Instead the user can enable > the marble navigation widget to zoom/rotate the globe. I had not a single weird interaction - you just need to differentiate between applet and wallpaper and you'll be fine. This is the change that I don't agree with. For me the wallpaper is all about being fancy-interactive-hotness and it's sole purpose is to brag about KDE hotness with it. Many people hate the wheel on workspace option, I don't have a strong opinion either way, but I think the wheel is much better used to zoom here. This wallpaper doesn't bring speed or a faster work flow - it is just a toy, so people using the wheel to switch desktops won't use this wallpaper I guess. My problem with the marble navigation widgets is that they clutter the desktop. I want to see that globe thingy, not lots of controls. Maybe a checkbox to enable mouse interaction? More options ftw...? I started it to show a friend who had something similar once upon a time in some proprietary environment how flexible and great our frameworks are. I'd even like to open a browser with the placemarks - same as marble does. Wikipedia ftw. > Reworked the configuration screen to show only options which make sense > together. This means some values are shown and hidden based on selected > globe rotation behavior, marble theme etc. More generic "show placemarks" > instead of "show night, show citylights, show places" to not present too > much config detail to the user. Very good, I just threw in every marble option I could find ;) making it more understandable is a good idea. > Maybe we should also change the name from "The Earth" to something more > descriptive or just "Marble globe" to advertise this great technology ^^ See Aarons reply, I'm fine with Globe, I'm a little against putting Marble here. > There still remains some work on tweaking zoom/rotate/pan to stop the user > from scrolling over the maps _edges_ on flat map projections (looks not too > nice currently). The patch mixes code cleanup and feature changes, but > being in playground and in early development stage, I was just too lazy to > produce distinct patches :-) Greetings Frederik > > Affected files: > > playground/base/plasma/wallpapers/marble/config.ui > playground/base/plasma/wallpapers/marble/marble.cpp > playground/base/plasma/wallpapers/marble/marble.h > playground/base/plasma/wallpapers/marble/CMakeLists.txt > playground/base/plasma/wallpapers/CMakeLists.txt _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
