Evolving Appdash

[Marco Martin]

On Tuesday 15 December 2015, Eike Hein wrote:
> 
> I think elevating the visibility based on touchscreen presence could
> make sense. How do you see this in practice?

edge swiping only in touchscreen, toolbox/context menu entry maybe only on 
touchscreen, hot corner i would say just if explicitly configured (would end 
up calling a dbus show dashboard method i guess)
I would have it not loaded at all and have to "enable dashboard" in a kcm 
somewhere if a touchscreen is not detected but that's buh, debatable.

> In the a-d matrix from the original mail:
> 
> a) Shortcut always available
> b) Toolbox entry conditional on touchscreen
> c) Hot corner action always off by default
> d) Applet never added by default
> 
> Sound OK?
> 

if available even just by shortcut, it should strictly be lazy loading as i 
wouldn't like something expensive that is loaded and then quite hidden (at 
this point one could put the toolbox entry in). and in this case i would also 
like to be able to just right click->alternatives it and load another 
contaiment to have the old style independent-widgets dashboard (in any case, 
if is in, must be replaceable/removable).

> 
> Appdash from edge swipe sounds really cool. Sounds like this would
> be combined with the hot corner KCM?

it should probably be something kwin-driven, as an invisible window to take 
the input is probably too invasive (should ideally take touch events but be 
completely transparent to mouse)


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Marco Martin