Here it goes my proposal:<br><br>Use icons over the plasmoid itself avoiding the extra handle frame. The feel of these icons would be pretty much like those on old amaroker plugin for kicker.<br><br>All icons are desaturated (ala cashew) but still recognizable, until the mouse goes over one of them. This icon "recovers the color" with an animation (sorry for the untechnical expresion) and it's ready to be clicked by the user. Of course, this behaviour only happens when the desktop components are unlocked, and I'm supposing that in this state the user only wants to play with the layout of plasmoids, not to interact with them.<br>
<br>Every action can be place in a different corner of the plasmoid, to help easy recognition, not only by the icon, but by its position. You can easily remember that, for example, rotation is low-left corner and changing size is low-right, etc. The center of the plasmoid (greater area, easy to click) can be set for dragging the plasmoid.<br>
<br>Visually, it could be like the image attached. Sorry for the HORRIBLE HORRIBLE mock-up. It's done in a quick&dirty way with MS paint at job office... but I hope it helps to get the idea.<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2008/6/27 Loïc Marteau <<a href="mailto:loic.marteau@gmail.com">loic.marteau@gmail.com</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello !<br>
<br>
Sorry if this has already been talked but i would like to open a thread<br>
about the frame draws by the applet handle.<br>
For people wo doesn't know well plasma terminology I talk about the<br>
configuration frame who appears when mouse is over a plasmoid so the<br>
user can resize, rotate, configure or move the plasmoid on the Desktop<br>
<br>
My personal opinion is that this frame is not very pretty and that there<br>
is not interest to make it an entire frame around the applet. So I feel<br>
that it disturbs the user visually and functionally speaking.<br>
<br>
Perhaps we can :<br>
<br>
* just keep the small area who contains the icons, and add a move icon.<br>
* better imho to a maximum reduce the visual pollution : add a<br>
cashew for that ! on the top right corner of each applets<br>
o The cashew let appears icons and text for each possible<br>
action when mouse is over the cashew and not on mouse click<br>
so we don't need to make one more click than before for<br>
doing the same thing.<br>
o Like first solution, add a move icon.<br>
* Other ideas...<br>
<br>
What do you think about ?<br>
<br>
Cheers !<br>
<br>
Loic<br>
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