flowout proposal

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Quarta, 28 de Dezembro de 2011 15:18:06 Mark você escreveu:
> Hi plasma folks,
> 
> I've had this idea for quite a few years and made a mockup for it in 2009
> [1]. At that time it was even for an entirely new desktop environment based
> on DirectFB [2], but that idea never came of the ground. Also, the
> "flowout" that i wanted was at that time possible but just a bit to
> difficult in C++ for no real gain (eye candy). However, since about a year
> or so (since the introduction of QML) it became possible with a lot less
> effort and thus i spend some time making the flowout idea in QML which you
> can download and see for yourself here [3] (note, 2 issues. The flickering
> you will see is fixed in QtQuick 2.0. Qt isn't going to backport it sadly.
> Another issue is the flowout image is scaling during animation which might
> not be best, but i don't know how to resolve that)
> 
> Besides that this is pure eye candy, it does make the desktop just look
> more polished when the menu folds out like that and just seems to be nicely
> integrated in the panel. This idea should imho be extended to more
> elements: - System tray
> - Thumbnail preview
> - Menu bars
> 
> Would it be possible to implement this idea in KDE?
> Or let me ask it differently, what needs to happen in KDE to even be able
> to implement it in KDE?
> 
> Please do let me know what you think of it.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Mark
> 
> [1]
> http://mde.mageprojects.com/images/MDE%20-%20Marks-Desktop-Environment%20-%
> 20menu_paths.png [2] http://mde.mageprojects.com/
> [3] http://www.filefactory.com/file/c059a4b/n/AdaptivePanel.zip

Think i Need you in oxygen.... did you do that wallpaper?

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