On Sunday 23 May 2010, Sandro Giessl wrote: > Hi guys, > > recently I've started to use sticky modifier keys. It was inconvenient > to get to know about kbstateapplet which currently lives in playground, > and its UI is annoying because it uses lots of panel space (compared to > win7 which displays all sticky key states within one systray icon, > kbstateapplet uses 5 times more space and its indicators are less > intuitive, IMO).
yes, not shippable at all atm > There's a related bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165402 - (it > seems like distros can live with packaging kbstatesapplet from plasma > playground, so at least downstream distro bugs have been resolved by > > now). The attempt to move kbstateapplet to kdebase failed: > > Revision 963596 - Directory Listing > > > > Modified Mon May 4 22:59:10 2009 UTC (5 days, 21 hours ago) by aseigo > > > > move back to playground; the UI is horrific, the code is ancient and > > apparently it has no developer to be its constant companion > > What's needed to fix those two outstanding points? Some thoughts and > questions which might help getting me a rough idea about requirements: > > - All kbstates information should (I think) be made available as plasma > data engine. There's sticky keys status, locked keys, mouse status, +1 > AccessX status. Mouse status and most keyboard status data sources seem > to be there already. > Whould AccessX be a separate data engine, or should another data engine > (Keyboard?) be extended? probably a separate one > - UI Fixes? > The indicator icons aren't quite self descriptive at the moment. The and are too much, i think should be more barebone, just the more used keys otherwise will have too much graphics to have any meaning at all (like is now, besides being ugly) > strict indicator grid layout could be made to resemble the > hardware/virtual key positions. > Maybe an iconified miniature version of > http://www.cip.ifi.lmu.de/~giessl/clip//1274628870070161346.png could be > used for sticky keys indicators? > > Is there any gain in making the kbstate applet UI theme'able? > would gaing to not be a punch in the eye i guess :p i think it should be a composition that does one-two icons in the new systray style > Can plasma applets be added automatically by the kaccess task, or is > this only possible using system tray icons? nope, it has to be manually added > What's plasma's policy regarding when to use system tray icons vs. when > to use applets? basically when a really custom ui is needed > Like KDE's systray icon for switching keyboard layouts, shouldn't the > accessibility key status be shown automatically when activated (opposed > to requiring to add a plasma applet to the panel manually)? > > > Thank you and bye > Sandro > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel