Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-06 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday 06 April 2009, Emdek wrote: > widget using left, middle, right mouse button, but only single click but > are we really need double clicking here? Three possibilities should be > enough for start. activated(WId, MouseButton) <- the same as before, but > for window previews, especially for

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-06 Thread Emdek
On Monday 06-04-2009 00:17:18 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> Also there could be >> passed enumerator member (for example Preview, Icon, Text) to tell which >> widget was activated. > > yes, that makes complete sense. we'd probably also need to pass a url as > well > in the case of some text being clic

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-05 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Sunday 05 April 2009, Emdek wrote: > On Sunday 05-04-2009 22:37:58 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> >> I'm using also middle click > >> >> on preview to close or left to raise it or iconify. > >> > > >> > so hiding tips needs to take hover of tip itself into account (easy to > >> > do :) > >> > and we

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-05 Thread Emdek
On Sunday 05-04-2009 22:37:58 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> >> I'm using also middle click >> >> on preview to close or left to raise it or iconify. >> > >> > so hiding tips needs to take hover of tip itself into account (easy to >> > do :) >> > and we need some clicked(ToolTipContent) signals >> >> Yes

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-05 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday 04 April 2009, Emdek wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2009 20:07:18 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> In my applet there are launcher together with tasks and > >> for consistency I'm displaying previews of files (for example if there > >> is > >> entry for image or video etc.) and it looks nice o

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-04 Thread Emdek
One more suggestion about with I've forgot before. There could be also added possibility to set tool tip position to centered over widget. In case of dock icons this looks much better than tool tip "connected" to icon left edge. Probably this would also look better for other purposes, maybe could

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-04 Thread Emdek
On Saturday 04 April 2009 20:07:18 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Saturday 04 April 2009, Emdek wrote: >> > what are the use cases? >> >> For example my friend is working on STasks plasmoid (that Windows 7 >> taskbar >> clone) and he completely changed the layout of task tool tip, added >> close >>

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-04 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday 04 April 2009, Emdek wrote: > > what are the use cases? > > For example my friend is working on STasks plasmoid (that Windows 7 taskbar > clone) and he completely changed the layout of task tool tip, added close > icon, moved text to top and later he want to make title text scrollable >

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-04 Thread Fredrik Höglund
On Saturday 04 April 2009, Marco Martin wrote: > On 4/3/09, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Friday 03 April 2009, Emdek wrote: > > > > > > well, the subtitle can actually be html, so there can be a quite good > > > > level of > > > > customization (look at the pager tooltip for instance) > > > > >

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-04 Thread Emdek
> and now the question is (and i don't quite have the answer) > do we really want clickable tooltips or tooltips that just behave as > well... tooltips? Yes, this could be not so easy decision to make, but without this we simply can't achieve some interesting results. But tool tips weren't firstl

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-04 Thread Emdek
> what are the use cases? For example my friend is working on STasks plasmoid (that Windows 7 taskbar clone) and he completely changed the layout of task tool tip, added close icon, moved text to top and later he want to make title text scrollable when it is too long to show it in one line (per

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-03 Thread Marco Martin
On 4/3/09, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Friday 03 April 2009, Emdek wrote: > > > > well, the subtitle can actually be html, so there can be a quite good > > > level of > > > customization (look at the pager tooltip for instance) > > > > Yes, I know that, but this helps "only" in making look them

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-03 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday 03 April 2009, Emdek wrote: > > well, the subtitle can actually be html, so there can be a quite good > > level of > > customization (look at the pager tooltip for instance) > > Yes, I know that, but this helps "only" in making look them very custom (in > sense of appearance), but doesn't

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-03 Thread Emdek
> well, the subtitle can actually be html, so there can be a quite good > level of > customization (look at the pager tooltip for instance) Yes, I know that, but this helps "only" in making look them very custom (in sense of appearance), but doesn't help so much in making them behave different

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-03 Thread Emdek
> That's exactly what the new systemtray spec does. :) Unfortunately > application > have to start using this spec, and we'll still have legacy systray icons > for a > while. Pitty, but nothing we can do about that. In the old spec, systray > icons > are basically just windows, and there is n

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-03 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 03 April 2009, Emdek wrote: > Hello > > I've idea regarding tool tips in Plasma. > Currently we have some methods for them to set, like main and sub texts, > image and windows to preview. It is enough for 90% of use cases, but there > is sometimes need for something more than these proper

Re: Tool tips ideas

2009-04-03 Thread Rob Scheepmaker
On Friday 03 April 2009 18:50:02 Emdek wrote: > I've one more idea, for tool tips in systray, but I don't think that it is > really currently possible to do. For example I've in systray three > applications, Opera, Pidgin and Amarok. Each of them has own tool tip. This > is very inconsistent. > I d

Tool tips ideas

2009-04-03 Thread Emdek
Hello I've idea regarding tool tips in Plasma. Currently we have some methods for them to set, like main and sub texts, image and windows to preview. It is enough for 90% of use cases, but there is sometimes need for something more than these properties. So I'm asking for possibility to add poss