[PATCH] desktop icon appearance

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 21 January 2008, Christopher Blauvelt wrote:
> This seems like a lot of work given their planned obsolescence in 12
> months.

you get 12 months. work i've done in layouts and other places will be gone in 
about 2 ;) it's part of the process of weaning people off of the past and 
onto the future.

> > particularly when we start using the icon actions again i think this will
> > help
> > things.
>
> I'm not so sure.  It's not more difficult to mouse-over an icon then it was
> before and the applet handle appears as expected.

ah, no, i mean in grouping items visually. the handle no longer actually 
paints behind the applet.

> > i'd like to experiment with that again at some point as it was really
> > quite
> > interesting.
>
> I planned on re-enabling the background when an Icon was selected.  This of
> course would require implementation of a selection object.

selection is an interesting question actually. it's interesting that nobody 
has actually mentioned anything about this missing yet. perhaps everything 
else is pissing them off more. i don't know. but multiple selection hasn't 
become an issue.

i wonder if we can keep ahead of the curve and provide better ways of working 
that don't ever require selecting multiple applets (as opposed to selecting 
multiple items *in* an applet)... food for though.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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