CV states

[Big O]

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:
> hey all,
>
> right now, the contextview is completely stateless. that is, when you
> start or stop playing a track, etc, applets do not change. applets do
> get notification of the track change (like the current track applet),
> but they remain there there as they were before.
>
> some of you may remember that back when i first implemented the CV,
> there were different "states", e.g. playing, home, etc. so if you
> added an applet to the home state, say, last.fm events, and you
> started playing a track, it would disappear (and come back when you
> pressed stop).
I hated that. Actually loathed would be the ideal word to use. :-/

>
> personally, i prefer the state-ful technique, as i think it allows the
> user to see the most relevant information at any given time---say the
> user likes the lyrics of currently playing songs, but wants to use the
> same space in more useful ways when a song is not playing---currently,
> he would have to put the applets on different containments and zoom or
> switch between them. this of course requires more mouse clicks.
>
> what do you guys think (i'm willing to convert the CV to be stateful,
> and it shouldn't take more than a day)? we need to get this sorted out
> Real Soon Now...
>
> leo
>
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>
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