On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:19:53 +0200 Vincent Pomageot <[email protected]> said:
> Hi devs ! > > Good things first: > I've give a new try to the wallpaper 2 module after having read a post by > raster on the openmoko mailing list, and following a link to a beautiful > video showing its capacities. > I have to say that the first time I tried it I thought it was good but just > visually different than the other one. > Since then, I've populated it with a few wallpapers and I've been able to > admire the beauty (and efficiency) of classification by colors and nice > effects that please my eyes :p > Thank you raster for this awesome module that give me something I was > waiting for (I've read some time ago that Hisham Mardam Bey was writing an > app like that)... > The way to choose a wallpaper should be that way IMHO. :) glad that.. it's getting there. it is by no means complete... but it's... getting there. i mostly am doing this because the wallpaper dialog (and others) are huge beasts that eat lots of screen space. i want to simplify it to giving you all the info you really need in a way that is space efficient and logical, and yet can fit into tiny resolutions (my aim is that dialogs should work in 240x240 and expand as needed). > The "bad" things now ;) > It seems to me that the configuration menu of the gadget modules doesn't act > like this others do: generally, when you go from basic mode to advanced, you > just get more informations/configurations. With the gadget module you have > something different: the basic mode allow you to add new gadgets and the > advanced one to configure the theme and background... nothing important in > fact but I thought it could go with the wave of "usability improvement" > introduced by andreas these last days. yes. many config dialogs are bad. they need fixing before release. my work on wallpaper dialog is one of the steps there. i hope other devs will jump in an do the same and improve the dialogs. make them 1. simpler (no long sentences or bad naming) 2. more obvious 3. dont lose power (just hide it in advanced or tabs) 4. fit smaller screens. > Last thing: I've updated my svn copy today and I get an error when trying to > load some modules: > there was an error blah > No module named mpdule/linux-gnu-i686-ver-pre-svn-01/module.so could be > found in the module search directories yes. you will need to rebuild modules. the modules in E-MODULES-EXTRa have been fixed to pick up the release # from e and install correctly. now modules (and libs) have versioned release dirs. you will need to rebuild them so they install in the new release dir. > Is it a known issue related to the recent work for release or should I go > for a list of all the modules that suddenly fails for me ? > > Regards, > > Vincent Pomageot > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and > around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save > $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. > 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. > Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
