On Monday 31 January 2011, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday, January 30, 2011, todd rme wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > > > * a new panel layout (TBD: let's work on this together!) > > > * improve the tasks widget to have some of the nice features of widgets > > > like "smooth tasks" with the mouse over highlights > > > > Some other possible improvements: > > - Application control interfaces moved from the system tray to the > > task manager (I recall you mentioning this before). > > yes. > > > - More focus on thumbnails. For instance smooth tasks lets you close > > applications from the thumbnails. There should also be prettier ways > > to deal with groups with large numbers members > > a scrolling area could work, but would require some cooperation with the > kwin effect for this i believe.
yes, i think what's missing is clipping thumbnails when half scrolled away > > - I think it would be nice if applications had some way to extend the > > thumbnail display. For instance put buttons on it, or have a pop-up > > button to show extra thumbnails (such as thumbnails of tabs you can > > select). This may not be feasible using existing desktop standards, > > though. > > probably not, but that shouldn't stop us ... status notifiers might be a > good first step. yup, indeed, i did put the win id info in the spec for something eheh ;) > > > * an "activities" widget (i'll hapilly write it) that sits next to the > > > app launcher and when clicked brings up the actvities manager > > > > You mean like this: > > http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Activity+Manager+Plasmoid?content=13 > > 62 78 > > no; more just a shortcut to the activity manager. the reason for that can > be plainly seen in the screenshots in that link: when you try to put > activities in a small UI like that, you _innevitably_ get people wanting > to > stop/start/delete/create/configure them there too and it becomes a visual > and usability mess. > > not that the current activity manager is awesome, but it does at least give > enough space to reasonably work with activities. the activity manager ought > to be rewritten in QML and spiffied up. yep, i'll start a branch asap (i have a qml file that basically replicates the current uoi and is uhm.. ~50 lines ;) Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
