applet browser: laying out the applet icons

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 29 June 2009, Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > for the desktop, we can just throw up a very simple panel style widget at
> > the bottom of the screen .. if there's a panel down there, it would even
>
> The main problem I have with panel-pab is that I see no way to add widgets
> to the desktop area below the pab. Possible solutions would include
>  - fading (like it was planned for the last mockup) or even close when the
> drag'n'drop goes out to the desktop
>  - zoom out the desktop a bit so that it fits the rest of the screen
>  - something else?

- don't care

:)

more seriously though, yes, i think the fade-out / move out of the way when 
dragging would work nicely with a panel PAB.

> > all the control "chrome" (search widget, category picker..) can appear
> > above this listing. the category picker will be the tricky bit, i think.
>
> As you've mentioned, this could prove to be problematic for vertical
> panels. Any thoughts on that?

not yet, but i have neither slept nor taken a hot shower since i wrote those 
emails, which are two out of the three actions that inspire new ideas in my 
head most often ;P

> BTW, since we are planning to integrate browsing of the shared Pinda's
> network applets, and GHNS applets into the pab itself, we'll need some kind
> of 2-level categories or something...

yes... i have some thoughts on that as well, but i'll write them later when 
they are a bit more gelled ... 2 levels will be needed in any case.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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