On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Yuen Hoe Lim <yuenho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Haven't heard from you (plasmate) guys for awhile, guess you guys are busy > :) Anyway, just like some input here. As per the Ugh, just ban exams in universities :P quick discussion the other day, I recently had the editor component tree > widget separated out into a new dock widget, so it no longer gets replaced > by the katepart that gets loaded when you click a file. I've been toying > around with the layout and dockwidget positionings since - and I can't help > thinking that, with the addition of this new dockwidget, the whole UI has > become awfully cluttered. This is about the best layout I can come up with > atm: > > http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn91/yuenhoe/plasmateclutter.jpg > > I think the main problem now is that there are too many 'vertical' > dockwidgets - the timeline, the sidebar, and now the editor tree. Vertical > dockwidgets only fit naturally on the left/right dockareas, but having three > of them there, plus the mainwidget in the center, really makes the thing > so... layered, and crowded. Not to mention virtually unusable on a small > screen. > > Well, until we find out a solution, using them tabbed (just try moving one dock widget over another) can help, but at the cost of more clicks, so a bad interface. What about making the siebar into a toolbar? Or make it smaller? Some possible ways around it: > > - Make one (or more) of the 'vertical' dockwidgets 'horizontal' so that > we can fit it snugly on the top dockarea instead. I think the editor tree > has to stay vertical, so it'd have to be either the sidebar actions menu or > the timeline widget, both of which I'm loathe to touch without first > consulting with you all :) Those two are now QListWidget derivatives, and > it > doesn't look like there's an easy way to 'horizontalize' them without > rewriting quite abit of code. > - The old mockups: > > http://skitch.com/michaelrudolph/ba3j9/plasmate-editor2 > http://skitch.com/michaelrudolph/ba3cg/plasmate-editor-timeline > > suggested an interesting 'overlay' effect for the timeline - and also > that the timeline be hidden all the time until a button at the bottom is > clicked. > - I dunno... ideas? > > Also, it seems like alot of stuff with PlasMate is currently 'hanging'. The > timeline seems to work nicely, but what's gonna happen with the missing > publish widget and documentation widget? I've been spending my free time > hacking away at the editor and previewer and there are certainly plenty more > work needed with those two but I was just wondering about the larger view of > the project, since no one seems to be paying much attention to it at the > moment :) > I think you have an idea about how to 'run' a scripted plasmoid, so, whats needed at this point to add that to Plasmate? > > ---- > Jason "moofang" Lim Yuen Hoe > http://yuenhoe.co.cc/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > > -- Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530) http://www.shantanutushar.com
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