[Plasma] looks and usability of applet handle frame

Loïc Marteau loic.marteau at gmail.com
Fri Jun 27 11:32:48 CEST 2008


Hello !

Sorry if this has already been talked but i would like to open a thread 
about the frame draws by the applet handle.
For people wo doesn't know well plasma terminology I talk about the 
configuration frame who appears when mouse is over a plasmoid so the 
user can resize, rotate, configure or move the plasmoid on the Desktop

My personal opinion is that this frame is not very pretty and that there 
is not interest to make it an entire frame around the applet. So I feel 
that it disturbs the user visually and functionally speaking.

Perhaps we can :

    * just keep the small area who contains the icons, and add a move icon.
    * better imho to a maximum reduce the visual pollution : add a
      cashew for that ! on the top right corner of each applets
          o The cashew let appears icons and text for each possible
            action when mouse is over the cashew and not on mouse click
            so we don't need to make one more click than before for
            doing the same thing.
          o Like first solution, add a move icon.
    * Other ideas...

What do you think about ?

Cheers !

Loic


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