On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:19:37 +0000 Felix Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Hello E developers, > > I have been using E17 for quite some time now, and I am really > impressed with your work. I wonder, however, about one design > choice you made and would like to know your reasons. > > Modules in E are part of the Desktop and thus below all windows. > So to be able to see and use them, the user must not cover a > rather large are of the desktop with windows. I think it's a pity to > surrender so much precious screen real estate to the desktop. > > The wonderful Engage module, for example, is only really usable when > you enable zooming. But if you do, most zoomed icons end up beneath > some window, so you can't click on them. > > So, why are modules part of the desktop? > Why was this design choice made? > > One alternative I could think of is to make modules part of a special > module layer that hovers _above_ all windows and which can be toggled > on mouse click or which is faded in when the mouse approaches the > screen border. > > I am aware that this would be a problem transparency-wise, but I, > personally, could live with shaped modules until X's damage and > composite extensions are ready for practical use. the reason being that in time x will allow us to have the alpha we want AND modules ANd not change design majorly. this is a limitation of x - we give up one thing to get another. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
