On Wednesday, May 18, 2016 4:21:20 PM CEST Ken Vermette wrote: > Update; > > After feedback we made some moderately heavy changes to teh DWD > requirements, namely removing/changing 'priority groups' in favour of > 'layouts'. > > Instead of the application firing off widgets with a "spray & pray" manner > via priority groups, we're using layouts. With layouts the application sets > a primary layout, and can switch to contextual layouts later. The primary > layout has to be accepted as-is otherwise DWDs will be disabled for that > window. > > Layouts can specify the order and size policies of widgets, but only for > the area inside the canvas - an application can't try to scramble > user-defined buttons. Applications can swap layouts if there's a contextual > need, but the DWD can reject them if there's an issue, telling the app to > provide traditional controls. > > We will specify how things should be laid out by applications in HIGs later > (basically, it's what the required layout was before), but this will let > applications use discretion if something would be awkward. More information > on this can be found under 'Widget Placement" in the doc. > > Document link: > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYzHjcuDitWmk99syjC0xzQPPmyUrpL_29_s3-2Y > l_g/edit?usp=sharing > > This upcoming weekend is a long weekend here, so I'll have time to put this > on the wiki and make a blog post. If anyone wants me to hold off for more > feedback please let me know.
Maybe give sebas a chance to read over it. I try to remember to mention it in the meeting on Monday. Cheers Martin > > Cheers; > - Ken > > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 10:49 AM, Ken Vermette <verme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Howdy! > > > > We have our first serious formal proposal for the DWD HIGs and the > > functionality we are looking for; here's a link to the publicly editable > > Google doc: > > > > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mYzHjcuDitWmk99syjC0xzQPPmyUrpL_29_s3-> > > > 2Yl_g/edit?usp=sharing > > > > I'd like to invite anyone with a stake in this to make edits/suggestions. > > Once we have any rapid-fire editing done I'll pretty it up and put it on > > the wiki; if editing wrecks the formatting in the doc that's fine. It > > contains a general overview of functionality, the first four widgets we're > > looking to implement, and a list of widgets which I'll be writing out once > > we're satisfied with the current documentation and direction. > > > > It may also be good to fill in technical or implementation details in the > > doc so anyone reading the wiki can be on the same page. If anyone has any > > concerns about anything please bring them up so we can hammer it out. > > > > - Ken
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