[Panel-devel] A better toolbox UI

[Niels van Mourik]

Op Sunday 21 October 2007, schreef Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Friday 19 October 2007, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > - With the old toolbox, as soon as something ends up behind this thing,
> > it's very frustrating getting it back.
>
> good news: i just tried playing with this and it turns out that items that
> go behind the new toolbox are still draggable. yep, the mouse click goes
> right "through" the crease[1]. neat. and, more importantly: problem solved.
>
> btw, did you try putting something behind the new toolbox?
>
>
> [1] it's what i'm calling the semicircular area (well, quarter circular
> area =) formed by the new toolbox. it's like a goalie's crease in hockey ;)

Hey there Aaron,

Let's try a constructive usability suggestion here (though I haven't checked 
out for at least two days, so perhaps things have changed). The toolbox 
really is a nice piece of GUI and it's very clear to users how they should 
configure it. Having said that I don't think I would wan't this circle in the 
upper right corner all day (some people prefer a clean and empty desktop as 
much as possible).

So would it be possible to hide the toolbox, for example by "locking the 
desktop" (from a context menu). Locking the desktop could mean that all 
plasmoids are locked on their place and the toolbox is invisible untill the 
user unlocks it again. Perhaps I'm suggesting something that was already on 
your todo, in that case it wen't unnoticed ;)

Having said all of the above I'm going to garantee you a truckload of kudos, 
beer and tea-dipped biscuits at the next Akademy in Belgium. Because you (and 
all those cool co-devs), as Sebas said, being the Robby Williams of Free 
Software, and the Bruce Lee of desktop technology deserve at least one 
free-beer-and-hack-week a year :)

Just my 2 cents,
Niels
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