On Wednesday 30 January 2013, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wednesday 30 January 2013 21:43:13 Marco Martin wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 January 2013, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > > > Attached you'll see my idea for a new task-centric Launch area, in > > > which everything is a task, and the categories are verbs (see "select > > > task.png"). > > > Each list would be flickable vertically (I know, this conflicts with > > > > hm, no i think any form of vertical flick shouldn't be allowed in the > > panel. otherwise you have an area that doesn't always behave the same, > > (in general vertical scrolling into something that already scrolls > > vertically pretty much means frustration, just look how annoying is when > > happens in a website) the panel covering everything (and being the only > > piece of ui that modofies everything) must remail very, very easy to > > hide (even worse now that dragging works very very badly when done over > > the window strip due to a bad x11 limitation, that is probably not > > fixable before wayland) > > So what did you have in mind when you suggested using the column browser > component during the last IRC meeting? That would have required vertical
i had in mind a completely separed application. yes is a step more but at least is not worsening the startup time of tens of seconds and rising of several megabites the already unacceptable idle memory footprint... > scrolling as well, wouldn't it? > I agree that this would be far from ideal, though. Another approach could > be to wrap categories with too many items into multiple columns. That way > we could avoid vertical scrolling, but would introduce more horizontal > scrolling, of course. Maybe that would be the lesser of two evils, > though... 2-3 horizontal scrolling strips would be already better i think... -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Active mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
