Marco,<br><br>I think probably some empty space left (on top, bottom, the sides and/or between sensible areas) would do it in all of those applets.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/27 Marco Martin <<a href="mailto:notmart@gmail.com" target="_blank">notmart@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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<div>On Friday 27 June 2008, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:<br>
> I´m not sure if on-click interaction is consistent in all widgets. For<br>
> example, most widgets have click and drag but for the Digital Clock widget,<br>
> click opens the calendar. It is not click-and-drag to move like the other<br>
> widgets. I only have the 10 widgets that come by default, but I imagine<br>
> there are other exceptions.<br>
><br>
> The question becomes: should the on-click interaction be the same for all<br>
> widgets (then we can think about your proposal more)? Otherwise we have to<br>
> stick with the border interaction.<br>
<br>
</div>many widgets have areas sensible to click or keyboard input, like the clock,<br>
or the twitter applet, or the notes one..<br>
so we can't drag to move in many cases.<br>
so would it be better to disable the drag on move for all applets?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<font color="#888888">Marco Martin<br>
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> Truthfully I´m not too comfortable with the inconsistent interaction<br>
> because it requires you to learn idiosyncracies of each widget instead of<br>
> class-level interaction. Are there any widgets where it makes sense that<br>
> click does something else (like open the calendar in Digital Clock).<br>
> Making interaction with widgets consistent should be a goal, regardless if<br>
> the<br>
> function/configure icons stay in the same place or are adjusted<br>
><br>
> On Friday 27 June 2008 07:05:18 Ismael Asensio wrote:<br>
> > Here it goes my proposal:<br>
> ><br>
> > Use icons over the plasmoid itself avoiding the extra handle frame. The<br>
> > feel of these icons would be pretty much like those on old amaroker<br>
> > plugin for kicker.<br>
> ><br>
> > All icons are desaturated (ala cashew) but still recognizable, until the<br>
> > mouse goes over one of them. This icon "recovers the color" with an<br>
> > animation (sorry for the untechnical expresion) and it's ready to be<br>
> > clicked by the user. Of course, this behaviour only happens when the<br>
> > desktop components are unlocked, and I'm supposing that in this state the<br>
> > user only wants to play with the layout of plasmoids, not to interact<br>
> > with them.<br>
> ><br>
> > Every action can be place in a different corner of the plasmoid, to help<br>
> > easy recognition, not only by the icon, but by its position. You can<br>
> > easily remember that, for example, rotation is low-left corner and<br>
> > changing size is low-right, etc. The center of the plasmoid (greater<br>
> > 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<br>
> > HORRIBLE mock-up. It's done in a quick&dirty way with MS paint at job<br>
> > office... but I hope it helps to get the idea.<br>
> ><br>
> > 2008/6/27 Loïc Marteau <<a href="mailto:loic.marteau@gmail.com" target="_blank">loic.marteau@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> > > 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<br>
> > > there is not interest to make it an entire frame around the applet. So<br>
> > > I feel 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<br>
> > > icon. * 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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