Add applets menu

[Lee Olson]

I've attached another mockup, hopefully I haven't missed anything... There's
a lot going on in it, so I'll describe it.

- User goes into configure mode and clicks "+" to add applet
- add applet selector is displayed
- user wants to add the current track applet after the lyrics applet, so
they hover over the current track applet in selector
- arrow is shown, pointing to the location of the new current track applet
that will be added
- user clicks the current track applet in selector to add it after the
lyrics applet

- now that the applet has been added, user wants to resize the current track
applet
- user goes back into config mode, clicks the edge of the applet (which will
display the resize handle), and drags the edge to the desired location (a
box is shown while the user is resizing the applet so they can visually see
the size changes that will be applied)
- user releases the mouse button and the applet snaps to the new size

- Lee

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Leo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> wrote:

> On Jul 2, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Thomas Pf. wrote:
>
> > I like tha look a lot as well. What still troubles me is the fact
> > that the
> > configuration bar is horizontal although the actual placement of the
> > applets
> > is vertical. I would strongly prefer it to be vertical so that when
> > you want
> > to place an applet below another one, you do just that instead of
> > placing it
> > to the right of it.
> > What happened to Gary's Idea of a vertical "thumbnail bar"
> > representing the CV
> > that would also be used for scrolling the whole CV (there must still
> > be
> > several mockups of it in the mailing list archive)? As I already
> > mentioned,
> > that vertical bar could be used for configuration as well when set
> > to "config
> > mode". And if Lee could just make taller/narrower versions of the
> > icons, they
> > could as well be arranged vertically. They represent the applets
> > very well.
> > What do you guys think of it?
>
> The problem is with vertical text. that is Bad (tm). we just finally
> got rid of the vertical tabs after many years, re-introducing a
> vertical applet tab-like bar is not the way to go IMHO.
>
> the mockup that I have seen (that I like a lot) is where when you
> click on the wrench, both the bottom and the left side go into "config
> mode". so, the bottom would act like it does not (or similar), but on
> the right edge you would get, parallel to each applet, a little resize
> handle, as well as small thumbnail of the applet or whatever.
>
> the idea being that in config mode you can resize vertically (which
> makes sense), and "see" how the applets are really laid out.
>
> leo
>
>
> >
> >
> >> I like this much better also! I filled it with some icons (see
> >> attachment).
> >>
> >> - Lee
> >
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