On Wednesday 30 January 2013, Thomas Pfeiffer wrote: > On Wednesday 30 January 2013 22:04:16 Marco Martin wrote: > > 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... > > Why do you expect integrating the task launcher into the shell to have such > a big performance/resource impact? From my technical n00b perspective, it > is not that much different from just having more launchers in there, > presented in a more sophisticated way... > If my specific UI idea could only be implemented in a resource-heavy way, > I'd rather try to find a less resource-heavy UI then outsourcing it into a > separate application. I'm sure we can find a way :)
don't know, the application grid is a single view with a single simple model, is pretty easy to keep the created objects fairly small, i see the task creation ui being a bit more complicated, all of this has a price... maybe is possible to keep most of this lazy created enough, don't know > > > > 2-3 horizontal scrolling strips would be already better i think... > > I can't picture what you mean by "2-3 horizontal scrolling strips". Do you > mean only using 2-3 categories overall? yeah, basically trying to arrange it as horizontal scrolling lines of icons -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Active mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/active
