Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-09-14 Thread Marco Martin
On Tuesday 14 September 2010, Ivan Čukić wrote: > > Apart for the idea of removing the dialog on which the user is operating, > > I > > +1 > > > think this is a good idea. It probably overlaps a little with the "apply" > > button, but it's much faster and doesn't require clicks. > > This is how

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-09-14 Thread Ivan Čukić
> Apart for the idea of removing the dialog on which the user is operating, I +1 > think this is a good idea. It probably overlaps a little with the "apply" > button, but it's much faster and doesn't require clicks. This is how konsole does the themes - hover the theme and it is temporarily appl

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-09-14 Thread Riccardo Iaconelli
On Thursday 09 September 2010 14:51:44 Sebastian Kügler wrote: > > There was a brainstorm idea that, when you hovered over a particular > > wallpaper it would temporarily replace fade out the configuration > > dialog and replace your existing wallpaper with the one you hovered > > over (with all yo

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-09-09 Thread Sebastian Kügler
On Wednesday, August 11, 2010 23:43:26 todd rme wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Vitor Boschi wrote: > > We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen, > > while hiding the config dialog for a while. > > There was a brainstorm idea that, when you hovered over a parti

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 12 August 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Thursday, August 12, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Thursday 12 August 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > On Thursday, August 12, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > > > > recapping: > > > good summary. > > > > > > > in the end, if a little live prev

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, August 12, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > On Thursday 12 August 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Thursday, August 12, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > > > recapping: > > good summary. > > > > > in the end, if a little live preview is needed should be up > > > > to the > > > > > wallpap

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 12 August 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Thursday, August 12, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > > recapping: > good summary. > > > in the end, if a little live preview is needed should be up > > to the > > > wallpaper implelentation. > > yes. > > > the attached patch is a first quick

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-12 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, August 12, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > recapping: good summary. > in the end, if a little live preview is needed should be up to the > wallpaper implelentation. yes. > the attached patch is a first quick and dirty implementation of tat: > the need of the monitor is decided by Wal

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-12 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, todd rme wrote: > > I would say the mandlebrot wallpaper also benefits from this, since > > you can see how the colors you select work in practice. Although it > > easy enough with an in-line preview, but in pract

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Chani
On August 11, 2010 15:56:59 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, Chani wrote: > > On August 11, 2010 14:42:04 Marco Martin wrote: > > > On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Vitor Boschi wrote: > > > > We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen, > > > > while hiding

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, Chani wrote: > On August 11, 2010 14:42:04 Marco Martin wrote: > > On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Vitor Boschi wrote: > > > We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen, > > > while hiding the config dialog for a while. > > > > that's called "Appl

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Chani
On August 11, 2010 14:42:04 Marco Martin wrote: > On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Vitor Boschi wrote: > > We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen, > > while hiding the config dialog for a while. > > that's called "Apply" :p > seriousy, i don't see much value added in that.

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Vitor Boschi wrote: >> We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen, >> while hiding the config dialog for a while. >> > > that's called "Apply" :p > seriousy, i don't see much value added in

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Vitor Boschi wrote: > We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen, > while hiding the config dialog for a while. There was a brainstorm idea that, when you hovered over a particular wallpaper it would temporarily replace fade out the configu

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Vitor Boschi wrote: > We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen, > while hiding the config dialog for a while. > that's called "Apply" :p seriousy, i don't see much value added in that. -- Marco Martin ___

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Shaun Reich
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Vitor Boschi wrote: > We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen, > while hiding the config dialog for a while. Oh, that's a good idea. -- Shaun Reich, KDE Developer (www.kde.org) ___ Plasma-dev

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Vitor Boschi
We may put a preview button that displays the wallpaper fullscreen, while hiding the config dialog for a while. Vitor B. da Silva On 8/11/10, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, todd rme wrote: >> I would say the mandlebrot wallpaper also benefits from this, since >> you can s

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, August 11, 2010, todd rme wrote: > I would say the mandlebrot wallpaper also benefits from this, since > you can see how the colors you select work in practice. Although it easy enough with an in-line preview, but in practice i don't find it a necessity. the colours are fairly obvio

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On August 11, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > the dialog itself should be taller, less wide, and the grid be less spaced > (items more near to squares) agreed; i don't know if i'll get to this in the near term, though. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread todd rme
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > i've implemented it locally already and i think it looks a lot better, if a > little more boring. the only wallpaper that really suffers from the missing > preview, imho, is the patterns wallpaper, but that could be addressed by >  making it

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On August 11, 2010, Marco Martin wrote: > providing models in plasmagenericshell, that use wallpaper to render > thumbnails in pixmaps that would be provided in the model? plasmagenericshell is in kdebase-workspace. most wallpapers aren't. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprin

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On August 11, 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > which brings me to the next issue: sharing the previewer. this could be > > done by sharing the delegate that paints the items via Plasma::Wallpaper, > > requiring a view with a model that provides th

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > which brings me to the next issue: sharing the previewer. this could be > done by sharing the delegate that paints the items via Plasma::Wallpaper, > requiring a view with a model that provides the BackgroundDelegate roles. > > thoughts? remo

Re: preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On August 11, 2010, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > which brings me to the next issue: sharing the previewer. this could be > done by sharing the delegate that paints the items via Plasma::Wallpaper, > requiring a view with a model that provides the BackgroundDelegate roles. actually, looking at the code,

preview in wallpaper dialog

2010-08-11 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
hi all ... so .. we have that pretty preview in the wallpaper settings, completely with a pretend monitor and everything. the preview itself looks nice ... but ... it looks pretty murderous in the dialog itself given how it distorts the layout and takes up space. i spent some time today c