In my opinion, there is a difference between the popup of the mixer module and the popup of the net/weather module: in mixer, the popup is used to change the volume, there are control-widgets inside it, while in net/weather, the popup is only used to display infos (I've never tested the weather module though, but I think that how it works).
And this difference explains the different behaviors I think: you don't want to see the volume bar each time you enter the mixer's icon, because seeing the bar is useless. Everytime you might want to see the volume bar, is because you want to change the volume, and then you need to lock the popup anyway. And actually, it would annoy me a bit to have the mixer's popup show each time I move the mouse over it. Regards, Simon TRENY <MoOm> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:15:28 +0100, Brian 'morlenxus' Miculcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : > Hi all, > > there was a small discussion on the irc about the module popup policy. > Currently each module has his own policy: > - mixer opens the popup on click > - net module opens on mouse over, if you click the popup stays open > - weather opens on mouse over, no click event > > So i think there should be a standard for the module popup. > Here is my idea: > > Mouse over: > The mouse over popup is enabled by default. You can disable it using > an option in the module configuration dialog. > > Click: > The click locks the popup. This means, if you leave the module icon > area, the popup isn't closed. If you want to unlock the popup, you > need to click once again. A nice feedback to the user would be a > little lock icon. > If the mouse over popup is disabled, a click would open the popup and > locks it. To close the popup simply click. > > The mouse over gives you a quick view at the popup without much user > interaction. The locking mode allows you to have a popup with useful > informations open, while running some other processes. Example: > A memory module shows in the popup a list with the top memory eating > applications (i guess firefox would be at the first position). The > list is updated every second. If you now lock the popup you would be > able to kill the applications with some xterm commands - while still > having the list open and show you informations. Without the locking > mode you would need to hover the module icon again and again after > running a command, just to see if there has been something changed. I > guess the user would open another xterm and run `top` there, so the > module popup information would be a nice eyecatcher, but doesn't > really help. Another example would be a calendar module which shows a > month view in the popup. Sometimes you just want to know a day in the > next week, sometimes you want to write some email while having the > month view on screen. > > Imho it's useful. :) Comments? > > Greets, > Brian 'morlenxus' Miculcy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to > share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and > earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel > mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
