On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 06:19:37 +0000 Felix Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> bubbled:
> 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. > > Thanks for your opinion, > Felix Also a "click-thru" option for such a layer or the modules would be nice in the future. Anybody knows the "samurize" application for windows? I hope E17 is going to have some features from "samurize"... -- MyExcuse: halon system went off and killed the operators. Martin Zwickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Research & Development TechnoTrend AG <http://www.technotrend.de>
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