Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > you can. its a few trivial lines of module code to go put any evas object on > the desktop. anywhere. a few more to allow you to just move it around anywhere > - and a few more to resize. if you REALLY want that. a shelf is NOT THE > SOLUTION TO THIS. tyring to use the shelf shows a fundamental > mis-understanding > of e's internal code and how it all works, and just how trivial it is to do it > yourself with custom objects. > > now if you absolutely MUST recycle gadgets (i don't see this as a good idea - > gadgets generally would be designed to be small and live within some > containering and management system. if you want full freedom objects i would > imagine they should be designed subtley differently as they may not live along > the edge of a screen anymore and be small. they many not be able to sanely pop > up menus or popups etc. etc., but if it MUST be a gadget you want to just put > a > gadgon ON THE DESKTOP, and have a different layout smart manager that doesn't > lay items out in a line. it's a lot more work, mind you. > > everyone is always just asking to have a big clock - then someone go and make > a > clock module that puts itself on the desktop. hell the clock module doesn't do > ANYTHING but display an evas object loaded from a edje. the edje does all the > work. ALL you need is a module that can select/load 1 or more specific .edj > files and place them on your desktop and let you move/resize them. > > as this is not on the todo list though - i leave it up to someone to go write > a > module to do just that. it is an utterly trivial exercise to do it and it's > not > worth getting into a debate over it. the debate will be more work than the > module code.
And a tip would be to check out an old version of the ibar and the gadman code. Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
