on sunday me, notmart and ruphy came up with some crazy ideas for the ZUI. here are the notes... better late than never ;)
zoom 2 (fully zoomed out): -the containment is too small to realyl interact with, so put the toolbox over top. problem: on small devices the toolbox could be bigger than the containment. -if you have one screen there's always space for 4x4 containments, so when containment-saving is implemented we could have 2 columns of active ones and 2 columns of saved ones. you could drag&drop between the areas to load and save them (although we could have load/save buttons too perhaps). for multiple screens, we get around the problem of different-sized screens by giving each screen its own part of the canvas for its own containments. we might need to record the last screen they were on, for this. when a screen is unplugged, all its containments would be saved out, and show up in the saved- containment list on either the first screen or all screens. when it's plugged in again they'd all jump back where they were automagically. to move a containment from one screen to another, just drag it there. problems: -discoverability. some people try to drag things, some don't. -accessibility. you can't drag with the keyboard. zoom level 1: -can we overlay the cashew bar on containments instead of putting it below? also... bigger buttons are easier to click, but get in the way of applet dragging. so should we make them bigger or not? zoom 1/2: -we should have a big + button where the next new ctmt would go. I've wanted that since the start but never got around to it. -corona toolbox: try using a hbox and see if it looks better. -making the remove action work for the current activity should be easy now, but we haven't got around to it zoom 0 (fully zoomed in): -the cashew can be moved around the edge of the screen; should we make it possible to detach it? but you'd have to rewrite the toolbox first because the code is scaaary ...the only thing we're missing here is someone to actually implement all this ;) -------------- today we talked to sebas and he had some other zui ideas. I don't seem to have proper notes on those. it was something to do with dynamically zooming out as much as needed to show all the containments. also, positioning htem nicely so that you didn't have to pan slightly to see the edges of them (also, having hte topleft one pinned to the topleft corner of the screen sucks) oh, and either painting a screenshot of the active containment, or just its wallpaper, instead of the checkerboard. we want this to be shiny as well as useful. :) sebas, maybe you can explain your ideas a bit more clearly than I can. :) -- This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. www.chani3.com
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