On Sunday 13 February 2011 20:21:56 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Sunday, February 13, 2011, todd rme wrote: > > Okay, I will do so. Not all of these ideas are mine, I am just > > > passing along the ones I think are worthwhile: > thanks for the list. please add the ones with consensus to the web page. > > > Image Wallpaper: > > 1. When you hover over a wallpaper in the list for a certain amount of > > time, show that wallpaper on the desktop. This lets you get a > > full-size preview of the wallpaper and lets you see how it works with > > your current theme. > > -1; we covered why already in the past on this list. > > > 2. Have a "custom" wallpaper position option. This would let you set > > the position and scaling in both horizontal and vertical dimensions, > > either to presets like align top or bottom, or to custom values in > > pixels. This is useful for people who want to have one wallpaper span > > multiple desktops, they can set the same image but show different > > parts of that image. > > -1; there are better ways of acheiving that, e.g. actually dividing up the > image in a proper, competent image editor. > > > Slideshow wallpaper: > > 1. Link slideshows. All the slideshow wallpapers that have this > > option enabled would use the same timing and random number generator, > > so they would all show the same wallpaper at the same time. Useful > > for multi-monitor setups > > +1; would also be nice for multi-screen single image wallpapers too. i > think this should be a multi-monitor-only option in the image wallpaper. > > > Character Map: > > 1. Lets uses set characters that they use often. On the desktop, > > these would probably appear as a list at the top or bottom of the > > plasmoid. In the panel, they would appear as a list next to the icon. > > +1 > > > Device Notifier: > > 1. Double click on a device to open it in the default application. > > Alternatively, have an icon on the right with the default application > > and click on that. > > -1; single click means two clicks, so there is no savings here. it will > only make the code even more complex for no real win. > > > Lock/Logout: > > 1. Add more options: Screen saver, shut down, reboot, turn off screen. > > screen saver == lock; shutdown and reboot == leave; turn off screen is > better left to hardware keys. > > > 2. Put icons of the options next to the options on the config dialog. > > > > > > > > Pager: > > 1. Show a thumbnail of the desktop on hover > > +1; should be done via a kwin effect just like we do the window thumbnails. > > > Task Manager: > > 1. Drag tasks to desktop to move them to current virtual desktop/activity > > +1; this already works with the pager. it should be implemented in the > "desktop" containment. > > > 2. Drag tasks to activity manager or activity bar to add them to that > > activity. > > +1 > > > Search & Launch Containment: > > 1. Add breadcrumbs next to the "back" button. > > +1 (same for kickoff, btw :) > > > Kalgebra and Qalculate widgets: > > 1. Merge the widgets, user can set the back-end. > > > > 2. History button that shows the last 10 or so calculations and results. > > +1 yes, KAlgebra one should be moved out of KDE-Edu and the applet should detect whether KAlgebra is installed.
Worth GSoC or too light work? Anne-Marie > > Calculator: > > 1. Scientific mode > > no; start a different plasmoid that can become the uber graphing science > monster calculator :) > > > 2. History button that shows the last 10 or so calculations and results. > > +1 > > > Quicklaunch: > > 1. The popup button should scale with widget size and position itself > > properly with widget layout when on the desktop > > +1 > > > 2. Enable and disable labels independently for the main portion and > > the popup. Currently the popup always has labels. > > what would the point of this be? > > > Folder view: > > 1. On hover on the title, show a "refresh" button. > > when is refresh needed? > > > Kate sessions: > > 1. Right-clicking on a session should give you options to remove or > > hide that session > > > > Konqueror profiles: > > 1. Right-clicking on a profile should give you options to remove or > > hide that session > > +1 to both > > > Preview: > > 1. Integrate the "preview" widget with the dolphin part, so when > > clicking the "preview" action in dolphin it popups up the preview > > widget above dolphin with a preview of that file > > not sure about this one; would highly depend on the UI implementation imho. > > > World clock > > 1. Let the user temporarily set a custom time for the local time zone, > > and the use the mouse to check what that time is in other time zones. > > we already do that in the clock plasmoids; world clock is a marble thing, > though. making it consistent with the other clock plasmoids would be good. > > > Panel: > > 1. In autohide mode, the panel has a nice animation when the panel is > > shown. In "windows can cover" mode, putting your cursor at the screen > > edge also shows the panel, but there is no animation. Probably the > > "fade" effect would be best. > > +1; this is a kwin thing. > > > 2. Not everyone like showing the panel at the screen edge in "windows > > can cover" mode. Make a "windows always cover" mode that doesn't do > > this. > > -1; the # of people that this would make happy versus the # of people who > wouldn't use it versus the annoyance of having to explain that in the > config UI + having yet another entry there == not interesting :) > > > 3. The panel should unhide when you drag a widget to it. > > it does for new widgets; if you mean drag'n'drop (DnD) between > containments, well, that whole system needs a rewrite. what needs to > happen is once the widget hits the "edge" (+ some margin?) of the > containment it should be turned into a QDrag and "normal" DnD can begin. > at which point, the panels will all Just Work(tm). bonus: it will also fix > the "between multiple screens", "from panel to desktop" and perhaps even > "between multiple activities" problem of DnD not supported well. > > > Widget Explorer: > > 1. The search field on the widget explorer should have focus when you > > open it. > > +1 > > > Cashew: > > 1. Mouse actions for the cashew. Currently we have mouse actions for > > doing mouse events on the desktop. We should have the same thing for > > the cashew (except for left mouse click, of course). For instance a > > user could have scroll wheel on the desktop to change virtual > > desktops, and scroll wheel on the cashew to change activities. > > mmm.. sounds complicated, in terms of configuration. it's possible, but my > questions would be: > > * why just on the toolbox, rather than the whole containment? > * what would the configuration UI look like? > > > Activites: > > 1. Remember your current virtual desktop on a per-activity basis > > +1; this belongs in kwin, btw, and represents an extension of the metadata > associated with an activity. that is not a bad thing. quite the opposite, > in fact: we want more applications providing application specific metadata > to make activities more immersive. > > mgraesslin needs to +1 this one, though, as kwin maintainer :) > > > All widgets: > > 1. Fix scroll bar middle click. In KDE, middle clicking on a scroll > > bar jumps to that location. However, this does not work consistently > > with plasma widgets. > > +1 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel