2009/2/2 Casper Clemence <maninal...@googlemail.com>: > Hi all. I am starting out hacking on KDE and I wanted to check that I'm not > stepping on any toes. > > I've never used Qt or kdelibs before and I have a full time "day job" so I > might take a while. Anyway I hope I can be useful and not just a pain. I will > do some bugfixing I promise, but I think I'll learn better by trying to > implement some design. > > What I'm working on is the "workspace/plasma/applets/tasks" task-manager. In > particular the grouping behaviour. > > AIM: > (1) on mouseover (of a group item) a taskbar-like widget pops out showing the > members of the group it's behaviour and appearence is the same as the main > taskbar. > (2) left-click peforms bring to front/minimise/restore action on whole group > (3) right-click context menu remain the same > > ...I hope it's clear what I mean :) > > JUSTIFICATION: > (1) Using a taskbar-like widget rather than a visually different menu means > the user does not have to switch her mental model and should therefore be more > intuitive: doesn't "make the user think". > (2) Makes the mouse interaction more consistent: left-click on a window item > brings that window to the front, left click on a group item brings that group > to the front. > (3) means that bringing forward a window that is part of a group or a whole > group both require one click not two, as they do currently. > > If you think this is stupid or it likely conflicts with something that is > already being done, let me know. > > Cheers, > > Casper > > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel >
i always approve usability speed-up. that would be great, if this will be implemented. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel