DWD HIG Draft

[Martin Graesslin]

On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 4:21:20 PM CEST Ken Vermette wrote:
> Update;
> 
> After feedback we made some moderately heavy changes to teh DWD
> requirements, namely removing/changing 'priority groups' in favour of
> 'layouts'.
> 
> Instead of the application firing off widgets with a "spray & pray" manner
> via priority groups, we're using layouts. With layouts the application sets
> a primary layout, and can switch to contextual layouts later. The primary
> layout has to be accepted as-is otherwise DWDs will be disabled for that
> window.
> 
> Layouts can specify the order and size policies of widgets, but only for
> the area inside the canvas - an application can't try to scramble
> user-defined buttons. Applications can swap layouts if there's a contextual
> need, but the DWD can reject them if there's an issue, telling the app to
> provide traditional controls.
> 
> We will specify how things should be laid out by applications in HIGs later
> (basically, it's what the required layout was before), but this will let
> applications use discretion if something would be awkward. More information
> on this can be found under 'Widget Placement" in the doc.
> 
> Document link:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYzHjcuDitWmk99syjC0xzQPPmyUrpL_29_s3-2Y
> l_g/edit?usp=sharing
> 
> This upcoming weekend is a long weekend here, so I'll have time to put this
> on the wiki and make a blog post. If anyone wants me to hold off for more
> feedback please let me know.

Maybe give sebas a chance to read over it. I try to remember to mention it in 
the meeting on Monday.

Cheers
Martin

> 
> Cheers;
>  - Ken
> 
> On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Ken Vermette <vermette at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Howdy!
> > 
> > We have our first serious formal proposal for the DWD HIGs and the
> > functionality we are looking for; here's a link to the publicly editable
> > Google doc:
> > 
> > 
> > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYzHjcuDitWmk99syjC0xzQPPmyUrpL_29_s3-> > 2Yl_g/edit?usp=sharing
> > 
> > I'd like to invite anyone with a stake in this to make edits/suggestions.
> > Once we have any rapid-fire editing done I'll pretty it up and put it on
> > the wiki; if editing wrecks the formatting in the doc that's fine. It
> > contains a general overview of functionality, the first four widgets we're
> > looking to implement, and a list of widgets which I'll be writing out once
> > we're satisfied with the current documentation and direction.
> > 
> > It may also be good to fill in technical or implementation details in the
> > doc so anyone reading the wiki can be on the same page. If anyone has any
> > concerns about anything please bring them up so we can hammer it out.
> > 
> >  - Ken

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