On Monday 02 November 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Marco Martin wrote: > > On Monday 02 November 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote: > >> Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> > On October 30, 2009, Stephen Kelly wrote: > >> >> would prefer to only show the actual notes in the stack on click so > >> >> they could be dragged elsewhere. Obviously the background svg of it > >> >> should not be as it is, or the size it currently is. Additionally I > >> >> need to give some visual indication of colour in the notes, either > >> >> the notes themselves being a different colour, or having a strip of a > >> >> colour that can be set etc. > >> > > >> > these are all doable; i just wonder if it's the best we can do for a > >> > UI. i'm not getting any inspired thoughts right now (too early in the > >> > day still, i think :) but maybe if i think on it or if someone else > >> > comes up with a great idea we could device a nicer more plasma > >> > approach to showing stacks of notes. > >> > > >> >> Would having one master applet and each note as a satellite applet > >> >> work? > >> > > >> > it would probably fail in some situations or just be more difficult > >> > than necessary to get working properly. when the notes are separated > >> > by the user into individual pieces, they should probably just become > >> > individual applets. > >> > >> So could a combined approach work? When new notes are inserted elsewhere > >> and should be represented in plasma too, could it be put into an > >> extender, and then if the extender is dragged out it becomes another > >> plasma applet? > >> > >> Would it then be possible to drag a detached note back to the stack and > >> into an extender? > > > > i think no point in making them extenders if they are going to be full > > applets once detached. > > > > best idea is probably the one rfom sebas, making the notes applet there > > is now to manage akonadi urls drop, so in that case would be connected to > > akonadi and save there > > there would be another applet that would show a simple list view of the > > notes text where is possible to drag notes out (same thing should be > > possible also from kjots to look really killer) > > Yeah, that sounds pretty good. This is the kind of thing I meant when I > wrote about a master applet with satellites applets, which Aaron wrote > would fail in some situations. I'm not certain if this is what he meant, > but some issues that I see are: > > * Can the master applet or list applet know when a note it is listing is > dropped onto the workspace and should not be shown in the list anymore. > * Can the master applet know when a note applet was closed/dismissed and > should be shown in the list again.
i think it should always be shown in the list if you follow this approach -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
