[PATCH] svg theming on the pager

[Sebastian Kuegler]

On Friday 09 May 2008 20:43:17 Marco Martin wrote:
> the last bit in the default panel that wasn't themeable with cute svgs was
> the pager, so i've added the support for loading an svg theme (it will
> still fallback to normal rendering if the svg or an svg element is not
> found), and with a theme done with nuno it's how it looks like:
> http://img110.imageshack.us/my.php?image=pager1mw3.png
> in the screenshot the active desktop is the second and the mouse is over
> the third
>
> taking with nuno on how it should be to really look good some points had
> emerged (that will need an agreement :)
> it should look as less cluttered as possible, since it will fill with many
> micro windows that looks very busy, nothing should be added to that, so:
>  * desktop number/name will appear only on mouse over (maybe even animate
> in the future)

Doesn't this make the active item, which also is the one the user focuses on 
(for example when dragging a windows from desktop to desktop)? 

>  * window icons disabled by default

They look kind of cool, but I agree that is doesn't improve readability. 
Default to off, with an option to enable it is OK I think.

> the panel should be less tall to make the task icons exactly the same size
> of the systray icons (it should need a separate discussion :)
> so the pager if has two lines the mini desktops are really too mini and if
> it takes one row they becomes too big and takes up a big amount of the
> panel. so some margin is added, used to draw the background similar to the
> other themed applets (like the systray in the screenshot) that both makes
> coherence with other applets and makes the pager of just the right size
> (tm) to make a single line pager tat looks  i was also thinking about
> disabling the background and the margins if the size of the mini desktops
> becomes too little

The one rowed pager also affects the layout of the desktops in the desktop 
grid effect when compositing is enabled. Zooming out then squeezes all 
desktops on one screen, so they're distorted, it looks awful with 4 desktops 
in a row. The layout of the desktops in kwin reflected in the pager is I 
think very important for the spatial understanding of where your windows are, 
and what a virtual desktop is. With the current proposal in one row and with 
margins at the top and bottom, we also violate Fitt's law, the clickable or 
hover area should be touching the edge of the screen. (This is especially 
true with only one row of course).

I do agree that the default size of the panel should be smaller.

> how it seems? comments on the various points?

I like it a lot :)
-- 
sebas

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