On Tuesday 17 March 2009, Christian Mollekopf wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:28:33 -0600, "Aaron J. Seigo" <ase...@kde.org> > > said: > > On Monday 16 March 2009, Christian Mollekopf wrote: > > > On Monday 16 March 2009 18:14:33 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > > On Sunday 15 March 2009, Christian Mollekopf wrote: > > > > > Therefore i suggest using a cursor like bar to display the insert > > > > > index. > > > > > > > > probably much easier would be to simply adjust the drawing of the > > > > item itself rather than inserting a whole new item and managing the > > > > layout issues. > > > > > > > > so if this is a "regular" item: > > > > > > > > [ icon title ] > > > > > > > > a spacer drop would be: > > > > > > > > [ ] [icontitle] > > > > > > But how would this look with a vertical taskbar? > > > > the item would likely increase its size vertically and pain the > > indicator. > > > > > > the layout would still see it as one item because, well, it would be. > > > > > > > > the beauty of this approach is: > > > > > > > > * you don't need to coordinate multiple items, each AbstractTaskItem > > > > just handles its own dragEnter/dragHover/dragLeave events > > > > > > > > * the layout is completely uninvolved in the process > > > > > > Currently the whole logic is in taskGroupItem, so only expanded tasks > > > accept the drag*events. > > > > that's fine. the items can also react to them, but then pass the event on > > unaccepted. > > > > > I think i will stick to displaying a bar on the insert index if there > > > aren't any objections. > > > > this is inconsistent with how other items in the plasma desktop shell > > work and > > is pretty old school. you'll also run into "doesn't fit" issues in edge > > cases, > > and painting it in the abstract item should be perfectly feasible. > > So should each item display a bar inside the task, or shouldn't there be > any bar and only the text moves a bit away form the edge? > > While i think it would be a bit harder to implement than the current > approach, i'm absolutely willing to change the code if you think it > would be more consistent or somehow better (unfortunately i didn't get > it yet, exept only implementation consistency is meant =P). > > atm. it's the expanded group which receives all dragMoveEvents, checks > which index or item has to be highlighted and handles also all the > actual grouping/sorting stuff. > > The bar is displayed by adding a QGraphicsWidget directly to the scene() > instead of inserting it into the layout. This has the advantage that it > doesn't make the whole operation "nervous" since nothing moves. > > have a look at http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2mm7oti&s=5 if you wan't > to see how it looks atm.
to me as it is it looks pretty good perhaps i a bit less noticeable that whaen i did propose that look but we'll find something > I know the cursors is a bit tiny, but this can be improved. > You can see a spacer at the bottom right, which was inserted where i > took the task from. > One task to the left you can see a tiny white bar which is supposed to > be the insertIndex highlighter =) > > > -- > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel