Toolbox Brainstorming

[Craig Duquette]

How is the current toolbox going to work for multiple containments? Are we
going to have one toolbox that controls everything or are we going to have 4
containments with 4 unique toolboxes?

Maybe the toolbox doesn't necessarily have to be placed on the panel. We
could get the exact same results by moving the toolbox to the bottom of the
screen (or wherever the panel exists, and if it doesn't exist resort to the
bottom). We can take up a small chunk of real estate (maybe a semicircle
hanging off the edge of the screen, only 16px/2 = 8pixels of horizontal
space) that would expand horizontally for horizontal panels and vertically
for vertical panels. Functionality would be identical to the current toolbox
too.

I just think we could get more functionality out of the top corner of the
screen. We have the cool KWin expose effect in the top left corner, we could
get another effect in the top right corner (ctrl+f12..?) while having a
toolbox and a panel at the same time.

~Craig
On Jan 4, 2008 5:05 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:

> On Friday 04 January 2008, Craig Duquette wrote:
> > returns. I think this is a cleaner layout. I prefer it to be shown
> within
> > the geometry of the panel instead of popping out because the user
> > knows where the panel is located.. it's always there.
>
> and how exactly would this work with multiple containments? multiple
> screens?
> or for panel specific actions? what about when there is no panel[1]?
>
> we do plan on putting a toolbox on the panel ... but for the panel.
>
>
> [1] yes, plasma is designed to allow that; and i know people who are using
> it
> that way even
>
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