tasks applet: group popup

[Christian Mollekopf]

On Tuesday 24 February 2009 00:24:50 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Monday 23 February 2009, Christian Mollekopf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I already started with the popup and it seems to work quite nicely, but i
> > would like to have your comments on how i intend to go on.
>
> just for my own clarity, which popup are you referring to exactly?

The popupMenu, which currently appears when left clicking on a collapsed 
group.
>
> > For displaying i think it would be nice if the popup would overlay the
> > groupItem, so it looks like the group expands vertically and shows its
> > tasks instead of having the separate popup as currently. Of course this
> > would make it impossible to click again on the groupitem to close the
> > popup,
>
> could the "base" entry be the group's title, with all the windows above
> that? then you could click on that bottom (or top, depending on screen
> location :) entry and close it again?

Sounds very reasonable. =)
>
> > but i think it would be much more dynamic to close it when the mouse
> > leaves the area anyway.
>
> this is likely to be unpopular amongst users with poor mouse control and/or
> trackpad

Thats a pitty, but i guess i'll have to accept it =P
>
> > btw. i think it would be reasonable to rename the LayoutWidget to
> > something like GroupLayout or so. because the current name emerged when
> > the LayoutWidget was a actual widget and not only a layout.
>
> +1        

Cool, thanks for the answers