On Thursday 15 April 2010, Shantanu Tushar Jha wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Christophe Olinger > > <oling...@binarylooks.com> wrote: > > Hey Shaan > > > > I was randomly brainstorming with myself and I had this idea: > > Currently we have this cool browser which can show us multiple items as > > grid or list. I wanted to give the user the possibility to focus on one > > item only (not the fullscreen player). > > > > Imagine when looking at pictures you browse through your files. Clicking > > on one image would foucs the browser on that item and an information > > panel would show up that gives us information about tags, comments and > > ratings a bit like this: > > http://zchydem.enume.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/screenshot-mrksaari-d > > etails.png. > > Looks like a fine idea, but instead of clicking, we should use the > action which the user has set the default selection action (e.g. > hovering the mouse to select in Dolphin). I hope you don't get > irritated as I always keep reiterating this fact, but consistency is > really one of the ideas on which KDE is designed.
This is a good idea and as Shantanu wrote, it must be consistent with the kde handling of single/double click: the interaction should be: clicking/enter on the currently focused element: play another key, like "i" or whatever would be remepped to be available on the remote: show this kind of information. to go with the mouse, use the "corner actions" concept introduced in Dolphing and Plasma Iconwidgets: little icons at the corners that appear on mouse over and will do secondary actions, that would be show info instead of play, maybe add to playlist for songs > > It would be nice if the browser had a slot that would allow the states to > > tell it to focus on one item with a frame around. I would then put > > next/previous buttons in the control bar that allows the user to switch > > to another picture or we could just swipe or use the arrows on the > > keyboard. Since you are the browser master I thought I aske what you > > think about that. > > > > Double clicking on a picture would directly go to the player showing the > > picture in fullscreen mode in which the control panel and information > > panel would autohide. (I could also add a fullscreen button of course. > > Again, instead of double-click, whatever the user has selected to > activate items. it should be used either always single click or followed the global doubleclick settings. I'm leaning towards banning double click at all there :) > > This would also be nice for the video mode, although I do not know yet > > how to handle showing the playlist and the information panel at once. > > Hmmm. > > > > Maybe we can have a brainstorming session about some detailed > > functionality that we want to provide. Doing this via the mailing list > > is maybe not such a good idea. At least for a first idea collection run. > > No, it is always a good idea to post all such discussion on the > mailing list. (CC'ing to the ML) Also, its always a nice idea to be > online on IRC whenever possible, because imho communication with > others is no less important than coding :) +1 Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
