Re: Semi-modal sidebar paradigm

2013-11-05 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 4, 2013 20:36:48 Àlex Fiestas wrote: > As an example the vertical plasmoid picker doesn't feel good to me while the at least part of that will be due to the visual design and phyiscal layout of items in the plasmoid picker. if it goes to a vertical presentation, then the cont

Re: Semi-modal sidebar paradigm

2013-11-05 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 4, 2013 21:31:06 Martin Graesslin wrote: > we can experiment with the window switcher. KWin grabs input anyway in that > case so a simple visual translate in a KWin effect could work. ah, interesting! so yes, we could a proof-of-concept experiment with the window switcher. wou

Re: Semi-modal sidebar paradigm

2013-11-04 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Monday 04 November 2013 20:29:26 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Monday, November 4, 2013 20:25:44 Marco Martin wrote: > > > Pushing the desktop to the side is definitely nice but due to the lack > > > of > > > input redirection in an X world, we cannot move all the window over a > > > bit, > > > too

Re: Semi-modal sidebar paradigm

2013-11-04 Thread Àlex Fiestas
On Monday 04 November 2013 16:40:09 Marco Martin wrote: > Hi all, > > since i was getting the activity switcher and widget explorer at least a bit > in shape in plasma2, i was experimenting with an idea we were toying a bit > around at the last tokamak. > Identifying all pieces of ui in the worksp

Re: Semi-modal sidebar paradigm

2013-11-04 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 04 November 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > putting that support in kwin would make it a moot point. on x11 these semi- > modal UI bits would just overlap things as they do now in your screenshots, > but on wayland kwin could have a desktop effect that takes these windows > and Adds Awe

Re: Semi-modal sidebar paradigm

2013-11-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 4, 2013 20:25:44 Marco Martin wrote: > > Pushing the desktop to the side is definitely nice but due to the lack of > > input redirection in an X world, we cannot move all the window over a bit, > > too.(?) > > yeah, that's my concern as well, i would love to have it, but since

Re: Semi-modal sidebar paradigm

2013-11-04 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 04 November 2013, Kai Uwe Broulik wrote: > > Definitely like the idea. Would love to see that for the notification > shade/history, too. (OSX *hint hint*) Give it more room and allow for > bigger, richer and more interactive notifications. Think of chatting or pa uses the same look for

Re: Semi-modal sidebar paradigm

2013-11-04 Thread Kai Uwe Broulik
Hi, > it’s a very neat idea. Really love it, too. And the blur effect is gorgeous! > something that would also be interesting to experiment with in kwin is a > special presentation mode for such elements. if it could be done with enough > performance/fluidity, it could be quite nice to “shove” th

Re: Semi-modal sidebar paradigm

2013-11-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, November 4, 2013 16:40:09 Marco Martin wrote: > http://im9.eu/picture/tg1706 > http://im9.eu/picture/jj1706 > http://im9.eu/picture/nv1706 it’s a very neat idea. something that would also be interesting to experiment with in kwin is a special presentation mode for such elements. if i