[PATCH] Review request for plasma marble wallpaper (playground)

[Sascha Peilicke]

On Monday 15 December 2008 23:16:32 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 15 December 2008, Sascha Peilicke wrote:
> > Mouse interaction was removed completely, this caused all sort of weird
> > troubles when interacting with plasma widgets (instead rotates the globe
> > or vice versa).
>
> are you saying that mouse events passed to the wallpaper would end up
> passed to the widget as well? were you accept()ing the mouse event passed
> in? if these are bugs in libplasma, i'd like to know about them so they can
> be fixed. =)
Not that I know of, events are accept()-ed, it just feels wrong to have direct 
mouse interaction with the background. As a user I get confused whether I'm 
actually interacting with my plasmoids or with the globe behind it. So it's 
just about usability, which is arguable, of course.

> > Maybe we should also change the name from "The Earth" to something more
> > descriptive or just "Marble globe" to advertise this great technology ^^
>
> "The Earth" is pretty descriptive, i think =) it's more obvious what it is
> compared to "Marble Globe" as well (i wouldn't know what that was if i
> didn't know that Marble was a KDE mapping application). in plasma we have a
> policy of not showing the technical name of something (jargon) when there
> is a functional name to it. ergo things like Activity instead of
> Containment.
Agreed, my issue is that "The Earth" is currently able to show "The Moon" (the 
rest of our solar system may follow), so maybe just "Globe" is better.
-- 
Sascha Peilicke
http://saschpe.wordpress.com
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