[Panel-devel] [RFC] Interaction model for "building" your shell

[Kevin Ottens]

Le Jeudi 15 Septembre 2005 00:24, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit :
> On Wednesday 14 September 2005 04:01, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > 1) We consider having a special handle as overlay on the plasmoids
> > connected edges. When clicked, the connection is broken, and the
> > plasmoids are slightly moved so that there's some room between them.
> > 2) We consider the first (as in read-order) to be the "master plasmoid"
> > if you move it, you move the whole group, otherwise you split the group
> > at the moved plasmoid. For example, if I have a row of four plasmoids, if
> > I move the one at the left it'll move the full group since I read from
> > the left to the right. If I move the third one (counting from the left),
> > it'll result in two rows of two plasmoids.
>
> i think this might be a little confusing unless we make the visuals really
> clear, but prefer this to the first option simply because it means
> everything happens on drag. this tends to be easier to work with, both for
> the user and the coder =)

Well, even without a clear visual about it, I think this is easy to learn for 
a user if he already knows how to deal with drag'n'drop. I might be wrong of 
course

> it really almost seems like we'll want to have an "edit mode". e17 does
> this IIRC.

Yes, that's how it works with E17.

> > 2) Having a special action "somewhere"(*) triggering the edit mode. In
> > this case every windows are hidden, and only the desktop and its
> > plasmoids are accessible until you switch back to the normal mode.
>
> yes, we just need to find a place for it. this is a job for the usability
> people =)

On E17, it's more or less in a kind of "settings menu" triggered by something 
equivalent to the current K-Menu, and in the context menu of every applets.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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