Kickoff favorites - Suggestion (with mockup!)

[Marco Martin]

On Saturday 20 September 2008, Hans Chen wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> Today I talked a little bit with Aaron Seigo on IRC about favorites in
> Kickoff. It all began with me wondering the best way to deal with bug
> 170605<https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170605>.
> My initial plan was to simply erase the search box when a favorite was
> added, but Aaron argued that 'switching the whole context to say "hey, it
> worked!" is a bit silly'. Even though I agree, I would still like to see
> some kind of feedback when (successfully) adding a favorite in Kickoff.
>
> Well, now I have thought of a solution that would make me, and hopefully
> also Mr. Seigo, satisfied. :)
> Check this
> <http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1024/kickoffmockupyh0.png>picture and I
> think you get the idea. The star works in the same way as in the Add widget
> dialog, and is only shown for the selected item. It provides a simple way
> to add/remove favorites, and also fixes this feature: 21:31 < aseigo>
> Mogger: in fact, maybe all app items in search that are also in favourites
> should show as being favourited? hm.
> Furthermore, it is consistent with the Add widget dialog and easily
> discoverable.
>
> The only problem I see at the moment is the space conflict with the bars
> for removable storage (old
> picture<http://eliasprobst.eu/%7Eelias/stuff/screenshots/kde4-issues/kick-o
>ff-storage-devices.png>; I was too lazy to take a screenshot).
>
>
> What do you think?

like the idea, the delegate used here to paint the stuff has kind a support 
for these types of icons already with a second column (like unmount icon in 
removable devices notifier that now doesn't works but that's the idea) not 
sure if here would be really appropriate, but also simply deriving he delegate 
here should be easy enough for the capacity bars well, i think the bookmark 
possibility should be disabled for them and for recent documents, since are 
both things that changes frequently so the bookmark would be quickly 
invalidated

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> With best regards,
> Hans Chen