Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-08-18 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing a bit with the Add Widget UI on the plane back from > Akademy and replaced the scroll buttons with a scrollbar. Attached patch > is a first step at it, largely unfinished as I would like to know if you > are interested in

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On July 14, 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > On Tuesday 13 July 2010 22:35:50 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > sorry, but it's not coming back. > > Oh, then offloading all useful info into tooltips is good? > Is this how you definition of elegance? Markus, it sounds like you are frustrated or perhaps usi

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-15 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 15 July 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > On 13/07/2010 22:33, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On July 11, 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > >> What do you think? > > > > clean up the patch and get it in... huzzah for copromise! we'll get this > > rocking yet ;) thanks for your dogged attention on

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-15 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On 13/07/2010 22:33, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On July 11, 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: >> What do you think? > > clean up the patch and get it in... huzzah for copromise! we'll get this > rocking yet ;) thanks for your dogged attention on this. My current patch adds the scrollbar by hand, but I j

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Ryan Rix
On Wed 14 July 2010 4:09:08 pm Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On July 14, 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > > Oh, and btw: It's impossible to click on URLs in those Plasma tooltips, > > while it's perfectly possible in all other "About" windows. > > Hmm, maybe a regression? It works here on 4.4.4. > A

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Artur de Souza (MoRpHeUz)
- Original message - > I take this as a proposal to remove the "i" from the systray. Yes, thats exactly what I want: to prpose that. *Sigh*. And the problem with the mockup isnt that it doesnt solve the issue of showing the information but that it brings back all the problems we had wi

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On July 14, 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > Oh, and btw: It's impossible to click on URLs in those Plasma tooltips, > while it's perfectly possible in all other "About" windows. Hmm, maybe a regression? It works here on 4.4.4. > ___ > Plasma-devel maili

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Markus Slopianka
Oh, and btw: It's impossible to click on URLs in those Plasma tooltips, while it's perfectly possible in all other "About" windows. ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Thursday 15 July 2010 00:04:45 Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > Yep, it's way more elegant than having an icon with an "i" that when > clicked shows all the "useful" information. In the old window as well as Aurelien's mockup the applet description is visible right away, without the need to cli

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Markus Slopianka wrote: > Oh, then offloading all useful info into tooltips is good? > Is this how you definition of elegance? Constructive feedback is great, isn't it? It's awesome when every developer out there has the right(tm) solution in mind but are never he

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 22:35:50 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > sorry, but it's not coming back. Oh, then offloading all useful info into tooltips is good? Is this how you definition of elegance? ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.k

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On July 14, 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On July 14, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > On July 14, 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > On July 14, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > > > Normally I would agree. Do you volunteer to make sure the bug never > > > > appears again? > > > > > > yes, we d

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On July 14, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > On July 14, 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On July 14, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > > Normally I would agree. Do you volunteer to make sure the bug never > > > appears again? > > > > yes, we do. now that we're at the point of such questions, thou

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On July 14, 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On July 14, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > Normally I would agree. Do you volunteer to make sure the bug never > > appears again? > > yes, we do. now that we're at the point of such questions, though, it's > safe to say that this thread has reached the

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On July 13, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > You have to agree that a "one size fit all" solution /never/ fits all > scenarios. we're not trying to. we're trying to fit the use cases that should be able to be consolidated. notably, mobile and app dashboard use are not included. -- Aaron J. Sei

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On July 14, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > Normally I would agree. Do you volunteer to make sure the bug never appears > again? yes, we do. now that we're at the point of such questions, though, it's safe to say that this thread has reached the end of its ability to produce useful input. let's

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On July 14, 2010, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > I see your point. But it seems like a bug that will pop up now and > > again, and it would be nice to have a list of all the > > plasmoids/widgets that are currently created so they can

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-14 Thread Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > I see your point. But it seems like a bug that will pop up now and again, > and it would be nice to have a list of all the plasmoids/widgets that are > currently created so they can be removed, or re positioned if they ever get > lost. I

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On July 13, 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On July 12, 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > > I had absolutely no problems with the 4.3 one. > > i'm glad. but we had problems with it elsewhere. we need a consistent UI > that works everywhere: > > * with panels (with a high degree of visual affinity) >

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-13 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On July 13, 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On July 11, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > > I kind-of agree, I still can't figure out how to remove widgets once > > they've been "lost". There's no remove button in the new selector like > > there used to be. > > not relevant. widgets shouldn't get los

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On July 12, 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > I had absolutely no problems with the 4.3 one. i'm glad. but we had problems with it elsewhere. we need a consistent UI that works everywhere: * with panels (with a high degree of visual affinity) * with the desktop * with the screen saver * with th

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On July 11, 2010, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > I kind-of agree, I still can't figure out how to remove widgets once > they've been "lost". There's no remove button in the new selector like > there used to be. not relevant. widgets shouldn't get lost in the first place (that would be a bug), and "re

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-13 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On July 11, 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > What do you think? clean up the patch and get it in... huzzah for copromise! we'll get this rocking yet ;) thanks for your dogged attention on this. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-13 Thread Ingomar Wesp
> I have been playing a bit with the Add Widget UI on the plane back from > Akademy and replaced the scroll buttons with a scrollbar. Attached patch > is a first step at it, largely unfinished as I would like to know if you > are interested in getting this integrated before I finish it. > > [...] >

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On 12/07/2010 16:34, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > Hi Aurélien! > > 2010/7/11 Aurélien Gâteau : >> I have been playing a bit with the Add Widget UI on the plane back from >> Akademy and replaced the scroll buttons with a scrollbar. Attached patch is >> a first step at it, largely unfinished as I

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On 12/07/2010 16:42, Marco Martin wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: >> On Monday 12 July 2010 15:33:24 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: >>> It looked like this: >>> >>> http://agateau.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/add-widget-e1278885892283.png >>> >>> It was rejected because it had the s

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz) wrote: > Hi Aurélien! > > 2010/7/11 Aurélien Gâteau : > > I have been playing a bit with the Add Widget UI on the plane back from > > Akademy and replaced the scroll buttons with a scrollbar. Attached patch > > is a first step at it, largely unfinishe

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010 15:33:24 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > It looked like this: > > > > http://agateau.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/add-widget-e1278885892283.png > > > > It was rejected because it had the same problems as the KDE 4.3 dialog: > > ta

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Artur Souza (MoRpHeUz)
Hi Aurélien! 2010/7/11 Aurélien Gâteau : > I have been playing a bit with the Add Widget UI on the plane back from > Akademy and replaced the scroll buttons with a scrollbar. Attached patch is > a first step at it, largely unfinished as I would like to know if you are > interested in getting this

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Monday 12 July 2010 15:33:24 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > It looked like this: > > http://agateau.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/add-widget-e1278885892283.png > > It was rejected because it had the same problems as the KDE 4.3 dialog: > taking too much screen space. The people who rejected it obvio

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On 12/07/2010 15:07, Markus Slopianka wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010 13:53:10 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > >> I agree. I made a proposal for an alternative version which would >> requires no hovering to get the widget descriptions but it was rejected. > > Huh? Why? > Was it like the one in 4.3? I ha

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Monday 12 July 2010 13:53:10 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > I agree. I made a proposal for an alternative version which would > requires no hovering to get the widget descriptions but it was rejected. Huh? Why? Was it like the one in 4.3? I had absolutely no problems with the 4.3 one. > Therefore

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On 12/07/2010 01:00, Markus Slopianka wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010 00:18:03 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: >> What do you think? > > I think that the scrollbars are an improvement, but I like the window from > 4.3 > better: The current one requires to hover over an icon to see the description. > I ha

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
On 12/07/2010 02:47, Chani wrote: > +1 from me :) just being able to see where in the list I am makes me happier. > how does it look if there aren't enough to scroll? For now it's not very nice because the scrollbar does not hide itself. I'll look into it. > P.S. Reviewboard Is Your Friend ;) D

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Monday 12 July 2010, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing a bit with the Add Widget UI on the plane back from > Akademy and replaced the scroll buttons with a scrollbar. Attached patch > is a first step at it, largely unfinished as I would like to know if you > are interested in

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-11 Thread Thomas Fjellstrom
On July 11, 2010, Markus Slopianka wrote: > On Monday 12 July 2010 00:18:03 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > What do you think? > > I think that the scrollbars are an improvement, but I like the window > from 4.3 better: The current one requires to hover over an icon to see > the description. I have yet

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-11 Thread Chani
On Sunday, July 11, 2010 03:18:03 pm Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > Hi, > > I have been playing a bit with the Add Widget UI on the plane back from > Akademy and replaced the scroll buttons with a scrollbar. Attached patch > is a first step at it, largely unfinished as I would like to know if you > are

Re: Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-11 Thread Markus Slopianka
On Monday 12 July 2010 00:18:03 Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > What do you think? I think that the scrollbars are an improvement, but I like the window from 4.3 better: The current one requires to hover over an icon to see the description. I have yet to see any improvement of the "Add widget" bar over

Scrollbars in add widget ui

2010-07-11 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Hi, I have been playing a bit with the Add Widget UI on the plane back from Akademy and replaced the scroll buttons with a scrollbar. Attached patch is a first step at it, largely unfinished as I would like to know if you are interested in getting this integrated before I finish it. Screensh