[Plasma] looks and usability of applet handle frame

[pinheiro]

A Friday 27 June 2008 19:27:07, Celeste Lyn Paul escreveu:

well I propose this anser, its a slide isn and out themable box, that can old 
several butons 
i propose move rotate resize control and close,
a plasmoid can set if he wants to have them all or just a couple of them.

http://nuno-icons.com/images/estilo/image5906.png




> I´m not sure if on-click interaction is consistent in all widgets.  For
> example, most widgets have click and drag but for the Digital Clock widget,
> click opens the calendar.  It is not click-and-drag to move like the other
> widgets.  I only have the 10 widgets that come by default, but I imagine
> there are other exceptions.
>
> The question becomes: should the on-click interaction be the same for all
> widgets (then we can think about your proposal more)?  Otherwise we have to
> stick with the border interaction.
>
> Truthfully I´m not too comfortable with the inconsistent interaction
> because it requires you to learn idiosyncracies of each widget instead of
> class-level interaction.  Are there any widgets where it makes sense that
> click does something else (like open the calendar in Digital Clock). 
> Making interaction with widgets consistent should be a goal, regardless if
> the
> function/configure icons stay in the same place or are adjusted
>
> On Friday 27 June 2008 07:05:18 Ismael Asensio wrote:
> > Here it goes my proposal:
> >
> > Use icons over the plasmoid itself avoiding the extra handle frame. The
> > feel of these icons would be pretty much like those on old amaroker
> > plugin for kicker.
> >
> > All icons are desaturated (ala cashew) but still recognizable, until the
> > mouse goes over one of them. This icon "recovers the color" with an
> > animation (sorry for the untechnical expresion) and it's ready to be
> > clicked by the user. Of course, this behaviour only happens when the
> > desktop components are unlocked, and I'm supposing that in this state the
> > user only wants to play with the layout of plasmoids, not to interact
> > with them.
> >
> > Every action can be place in a different corner of the plasmoid, to help
> > easy recognition, not only by the icon, but by its position. You can
> > easily remember that, for example, rotation is low-left corner and
> > changing size is low-right, etc. The center of the plasmoid (greater
> > area, easy to click) can be set for dragging the plasmoid.
> >
> > Visually, it could be like the image attached. Sorry for the HORRIBLE
> > HORRIBLE mock-up. It's done in a quick&dirty way with MS paint at job
> > office... but I hope it helps to get the idea.
> >
> > 2008/6/27 Loïc Marteau <loic.marteau at gmail.com>:
> > > 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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