Drawer HIG - please comment

[Felix Michel]

Hi guys,

my name is Felix and i am just following this list because i am really 
interested and exited about all the development around plasma active.

Now about the drawers!

On Monday 28 May 2012 20.43:04 Thomas Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Monday 28 May 2012 20:04:36 Marco Martin wrote:
> > so far looks scarily mind reading :p
> 
> I take that as a good sign :)

I really like the drawers and the explanation. I was just thinking about a 
left to right distinction between the overlap and the split drawer. My idea is 
that the split drawer will be dragged from the right to the left and that the 
overlap drawer will be dragged from the left to the right. This way an 
application could have the additional tools available and in the same time a 
user could just pull the overlap to get some other stuff he needs!

I really like all the great ideas around plasma active and just wanted to 
share another one. 

Cheers
Felix

> 
> > wasn't completely sure about making those tabs a central element, or just
> > an accident of that particular application, do you think they are a good
> > idea?
> I find they worked quite well in the Resource Browser. Maybe the
> presentation could still be optimized (making them look and behave a bit
> more like physical bookmarks), but I think even in their current state they
> can be used as an optional element for when not everything fits on the
> drawer (as in the Resource Browser).
> 
> > > @Marco: As soon as there are reusable components for the Drawers, please
> > > add the code for them to the Code section so that we won't have a
> > > hundred
> > > different implementations for it in the end.
> > 
> > yep, will do, right now there are a bit of other things on my plate so may
> > be postponed a bit, but must definitely componentize them if i want them
> > to
> > actually be used since unfortunately the implementation wasn't exactly
> > trivial
> 
> No need to hurry, I just hope the components will be ready by the time
> add-on development by third parties really kicks in. I'd like to see the
> drawers in many apps, and for that they need to be as easy to implement as
> possible. The same applies to the other components/widgets you created for
> PA, of course. But hey, I'm preaching to the choir here anyway, so there's
> probably no need to further stress that ;)
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