> > Good design implies that less-used features are made less pronounced. I for > one find the whole widget toolbar too intrusive. I put my widgets > side-by-side on the desktop, and during normal use the toolbar on one > widget will overlap the one besides it, obscuring its contents. I would be > happier if the toolbar would only show on demand by clicking a toggle > button (a cashew?), not by hovering over the widget. >
hmm, sounds like you might enjoy the newspaper layout better... it's available in 4.5 but I can't remember how stable it is. > Do people really move and rotate their widgets, with the same frequency > that they interact with their contents? As far as I can see, none of the > use cases presented in this thread would be hurt by a "configuration only > mode", while it does get in the way for some of us in its current form. > > What was the original reasoning in having the complete direct-manipulation > interface for plasmoid applets always present? Is it for the kool effect? > To make it discoverable? Or is there a benefit in having the toolbar > always available that I'm missing? umm, the handles go away if you lock the widgets... :) there's your "configuration only mode" :) _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
