On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 18:22, Marco Martin <notm...@gmail.com> wrote: > not sure about making it an overlay: has it enough "value" to be always shown > or can be usually hidden and shown only when needed?
Hi Yuen Hoe, hi Marco, I don't think the preview should always be shown. If the preview feature were really, really good, it would still also be a distraction. Writing a plasmoid and testing it are two separate tasks or steps in the work flow, so it would be best to also separate them in the user interface. But I hold, that one can't even get such a preview feature into the "good" state. For various reasons: - It would have to be "live", which means constantly saving and reloading and puts an unnecessary load on the system. - It's not obvious how to preview a data engine or a runner. (not really a big problem) - For most plasmoids previewing doesn't make much sense, they need to be "pre-interacted with", which further supports the claim, that writing and previewing are separate tasks. An additional advantage of not always showing the preview is that the user interface won't be that cluttered. michael _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
