Questions about Plasma Activities

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Saturday 22 November 2008, Jesse L. Zamora wrote:
> > On Saturday 22 November 2008, Jesse L. Zamora wrote:
> > > 2. Why doesn't it have the capability to just click on the activity you
> > > want to zoom in to it? I find that clicking the cashew is somewhat
> > > burdensome.
> >
> > clicking on the activity would mean you can't interact with them when
> > zoomed out ... that's not what we want. it's a little bit of magic
> > behaviour.
>
> In that case, then why not have the ability to drag widgets between
> activities?

you can. or at least .. you could. i see that the layout class in 
DefaultDesktop has broken that. so we need to fix that regression.

> > the plan (for 4.2 even) is to hide the cashew when zoomed and instead
> > show a "control bar" beneath each containment with some basic action
> > buttons. not unlike the panel controler in that way.
>
> That sounds pretty sweet.......

hopefully .. =)

> > > 3. Why is the background the color it is? The transparent
> > > checkered box background looks, well, it looks unpolished.
> >
> > it's a simple, fast to paint background that says very clearly "this is
> > blank space". it's common in other canvas based apps that users are more
> > likely to be famliar with: drawing and painting apps.
> >
> > when it wasn't that checkerboard people would ask what was going on when
> > they zoomed out, what happened to the background, etc.
> >
> > so i put clarity over beauty in this case.
> >
> > i've thought about a gradient, but that would be a rather unecessary
> > abuse of horsepower imo ... i've though about putting a default wallpaper
> > there but that stands a really good chance of making the activities
> > harder to see.
>
> That makes plenty of sense. But still, I wonder if there isn't a more
> elegant solution.

i'm open to suggestions =)

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