Fwd: Folderview is great - Small idea for improvement

[Christophe Olinger]

Well, this seems to head a bit into a different direction than I initially 
thought. Nevermind. My thoughts:

Aaron is mostly right, putting several folderviews into the SAME plasmoid (not 
grouping) might make people go away from the activity idea. As far as I 
understand it, Aaron has some surprises in his drawer about the acitivity 
functionality. I actually do not use virtual desktops and probably will not 
have enough big activities to use the new features, but I'm sure others will.

I still like my folderview-related idea (several titlebars one below (or next) 
to the other which by clicking or hovering change the folders in the bottom 
part, but can see that it is not a priority.

Grouping is also ok. This morning I tried having several picture frames in a 
sort of collage on the desktop. Each one had a different slideshow. This was 
really great. Unfortunately there is no way to chose the Z-axis order. I think 
newest are on top right now. Probably somebody is already working on this. 
Grouping is for me a bit too rigid. I like things to overlap (sometimes).

Small question: Do i have to set up a complete kde development environment to 
hack on plasmoids? Or is there an easier way. A "plasmoid-builder" inside of 
kdevelop?


On Sunday 29 June 2008 14:37:06 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Saturday 28 June 2008 23:37:17 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> >   On Saturday 28 June 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> > > i.e. i can select le's say 3 applets and then group them in a layout or
> > > in a kind of a tabbed interface like this proposal.
> >
> > grouping i'm fine with; it would actually be quite useful in a panel.
> > sebas has worked on something like this in playground, actually.
>
> Yes, the grid in playground. Current status is that you can specifiy a
> layout, and applets will be laid out in this gridlayout. You can drag
> applets into this gridlayout and they sometimes will be addede. Quite some
> applets don't show up in this grid, something that needs investigation.
>
> Otherwise, the idea seems to work. Here's a early screenshot:
> http://vizzzion.org/tmp/gridlayout-dev.png
>
> If someone feels like hacking on it, cool :)