On 8/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Seb Ruiz</b> <<a href="mailto:ruiz@kde.org">ruiz@kde.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 17/08/07, Leo Franchi <<a href="mailto:lfranchi@gmail.com">lfranchi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> hey guys,<br>><br>> so for those who have tried out the contextview stuff, currently the way you<br>> add applets is using the swooping-out controlbox in the top-left corner.
<br>> this is because its easy... it's coming directly from plasma. but honestly i<br>> don't think we want it in the final version of 2.0, its more suited for the<br>> desktop than in amarok.<br>><br>
> that said, i don't really have any idea of what a better system could be. so<br>> i'm completely open to ideas... ideally i'd like to write something up<br>> relatively soon, so feel free to just toss ideas out and i can try them.
<br><br>Some considerations might be - how often do we want, or expect users<br>to change these applets. If there are going to be relatively static,<br>it might be wise to have a page in the settings dialog. However, I<br>
don't think this is really going to be the use case. I imagine that<br>the applets will be changed regularly enough to warrant a faster<br>solution.</blockquote><div><br>yeah, i dont think we should hide the applet stuff too much, because it's nice to be able to easily add/remove them. although, the way i see myself using it is pretty much setting things up once, and then keeping it like that until i install more that i want to see.
<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Without having put much thought into it, perhaps it would be useful to<br>
have a menu entry with all of the available applets. These can be<br>toggled from the menu and can be categorised under different groups.<br>I'd expect all of the applets to be available from the menus, even if<br>they can't be enabled or disabled.
<br><br>A context menu popup menu could be issued with a right click on the<br>view, allowing adding or removing applets relevant only the the<br>currently displaying information.</blockquote><div><br>i like this idea---we could have a right click context menu on the contextview background which opens a simple add/remove applets dialog. i'm just thinking something simple, with a drop-down list of what "type" of applet to show (
e.g. home, current), which filters the list, then you can add/remove from the filtered list to the current pane.<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I don't know if a button to launch a manager on the actual context<br>view is a good idea, as i imagine that it would look cluttered and<br>impede on the functionality.</blockquote><div><br>i agree. :) <br><br>leo <br>
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