On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 00:16:24 -0500 Anthony Hugh <hughwei...@gmail.com> said:
> Hi, I have a strange idea for how this mouseover should function, i > think it might be intuitive to users. > > When the user's mouse moves over a folder, and the mouseover preview > window opens, focus should be given to the preview window. > > The items inside the preview window respond if the user interacts with > them. If the user moves the mouse towards things outside the preview > window, the preview disappears. > > If the user interacts with something in the preview window, the main > view is swapped with the preview. However since the preview is no > longer describing something inside the main view, it can be shown on > the far corner, so it's not in the way. > > Just a thought, I'd have a lot of fun browsing files this way. > this is a "can of worms" thing. this would wreak havoc with focus policies. click-to-focus now is sometimes pointr focus if your mouse accidetnally strays over an efm icon for long enough to pop up something. this could/would only be viable if the efm window already had focus... for click-to-focus people to make use of this u then have to click... which may as well just open the icon anyway? for pointer focus people.. this may be handier as they can start navigating... now problem here is the preview posp away from the mouse so any mouse move causes it to go away... this would need changing - and this means it wll cover up the original icon too - not sure if thats good or bad... now the preview moves away .. from the mouse... if you interact... which causes it to pop down again... there's a lot of niggly things here that are going to turn up. the simplicity of it being "read only" keeps it contained and managable... this might be an idea to think about/explore further, but as it stands there are too many other side-issues it'll create along the way. :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. SALE $99.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122812 _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
