<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Nuno Pinheiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nuno.pinheiro@kdab.com">nuno.pinheiro@kdab.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">A Quarta, 28 de Dezembro de 2011 15:18:06 Mark você escreveu:</p><div><div class="h5">
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Hi plasma folks,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> I've had this idea for quite a few years and made a mockup for it in 2009</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> [1]. At that time it was even for an entirely new desktop environment based</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> on DirectFB [2], but that idea never came of the ground. Also, the</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> "flowout" that i wanted was at that time possible but just a bit to</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> difficult in C++ for no real gain (eye candy). However, since about a year</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> or so (since the introduction of QML) it became possible with a lot less</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> effort and thus i spend some time making the flowout idea in QML which you</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> can download and see for yourself here [3] (note, 2 issues. The flickering</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> you will see is fixed in QtQuick 2.0. Qt isn't going to backport it sadly.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Another issue is the flowout image is scaling during animation which might</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> not be best, but i don't know how to resolve that)</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Besides that this is pure eye candy, it does make the desktop just look</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> more polished when the menu folds out like that and just seems to be nicely</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> integrated in the panel. This idea should imho be extended to more</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> elements: - System tray</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> - Thumbnail preview</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> - Menu bars</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Would it be possible to implement this idea in KDE?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Or let me ask it differently, what needs to happen in KDE to even be able</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> to implement it in KDE?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Please do let me know what you think of it.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Kind regards,</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Mark</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> [1]</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> <a href="http://mde.mageprojects.com/images/MDE%20-%20Marks-Desktop-Environment%20-%" target="_blank">http://mde.mageprojects.com/images/MDE%20-%20Marks-Desktop-Environment%20-%</a></p>
</div></div><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> 20menu_paths.png [2] <a href="http://mde.mageprojects.com/" target="_blank">http://mde.mageprojects.com/</a></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> [3] <a href="http://www.filefactory.com/file/c059a4b/n/AdaptivePanel.zip" target="_blank">http://www.filefactory.com/file/c059a4b/n/AdaptivePanel.zip</a></p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Think i Need you in oxygen.... did you do that wallpaper?</p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hehe, thank you for the compliment. I sadly can't make those nice wallpapers. I found that one on deviantart.</div>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Nuno Pinheiro | <a href="mailto:nuno.pinheiro@kdab.com" target="_blank">nuno.pinheiro@kdab.com</a> | UI Designer </p>
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