Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2008-01-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Again, I'm just proposing a simple mechanism to enable > > the notion of loadable, themable 'evas-objects', so that these > > interesting, compound, gadget-like things can be made available > > for use/re-use on a wider basis. > > There are a LOT of interesting 'objects' one can

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2008-01-29 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Jan 29, 2008 3:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gustavo wrote: > > > I have no time to reply your mail as detailed as I would like, > > but one idea to do what you want is to make the gadcon usage > > recursive. Then we could have an object that exports its own gad

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2008-01-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gustavo wrote: > I have no time to reply your mail as detailed as I would like, > but one idea to do what you want is to make the gadcon usage > recursive. Then we could have an object that exports its own gadcon > api to children. Maybe it's an overkill and can be done by means > similar

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2008-01-29 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Jan 29, 2008 2:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gustavo wrote: > > > > Has anyone followed up on this? It seems to me that this > > > could be easily done in a way that would allow for a certain amount > > > of re-usability of such 'gadgets', and yet enough f

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2008-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gustavo wrote: > > Has anyone followed up on this? It seems to me that this > > could be easily done in a way that would allow for a certain amount > > of re-usability of such 'gadgets', and yet enough flexibility to > > have custom designs as well. Likely there are multitudes of wa

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2008-01-28 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Jan 28, 2008 5:58 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sometime back, Gustavo wrote: > > > So, my idea is either to provide larger shelf size or provide > > another shelf category, maybe desktop applets, that could be > > placed everywhere (if it makers hard to efm icons,

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2008-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sometime back, Gustavo wrote: > So, my idea is either to provide larger shelf size or provide > another shelf category, maybe desktop applets, that could be > placed everywhere (if it makers hard to efm icons, then maybe > disable those or make this new shelf attached to borders, with > i

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2007-11-21 Thread Ed Presutti
Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri wrote: > On Nov 21, 2007 5:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the desktop (and/or fm) component can do whatever it now does with "icons", and whatever else it does with "gadgets", then why can't it do anything with "whizblings"? Or wit

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2007-11-21 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
On Nov 21, 2007 5:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If the desktop (and/or fm) component can do whatever it now > > > does with "icons", and whatever else it does with "gadgets", then > > > why can't it do anything with "whizblings"? Or with "wambots", or > > > with ..

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2007-11-21 Thread Sebastian Dransfeld
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > you can. its a few trivial lines of module code to go put any evas object on > the desktop. anywhere. a few more to allow you to just move it around anywhere > - and a few more to resize. if you REALLY want that. a shelf is NOT THE > SOLUTION TO THIS. ty

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2007-11-21 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > If the desktop (and/or fm) component can do whatever it now > > does with "icons", and whatever else it does with "gadgets", then > > why can't it do anything with "whizblings"? Or with "wambots", or > > with . ? > > > you can. its a few trivial lines of module code to go put any eva

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2007-11-20 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 01:53:40 -0300 "Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > Hi all, > > I'm using a shelf at the right border with size set to HUGE (120px) > and below all windows so it can be nice and use transparency, staying > at the bottom of my desktop and working like KDE's

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2007-11-20 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:11:46 GMT "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > Ahhh... the desklets/applets thing. :) There was a thread > about this sometime back. > > I have some questions about this myself.. Like, what exactly > is an "icon"? (vs. say a "gadget") an icon is

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2007-11-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gustavo wrote: > I'm using a shelf at the right border with size set to HUGE > (120px) and below all windows so it can be nice and use > transparency, staying at the bottom of my desktop and working > like KDE's superkaramba, GNOME desklets, Windows Vista gadgets > and ... > > It works g

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2007-11-20 Thread Toma
Gustavo- > I'm using a shelf at the right border with size set to HUGE (120px) > and below all windows so it can be nice and use transparency, staying > at the bottom of my desktop and working like KDE's superkaramba, GNOME > desklets, Windows Vista gadgets and ... Id love it too. I need a bigger

Re: [E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2007-11-20 Thread Downknew Wise
I think this is a great idea!!! I remember that the old e17 version has this feauture, we could put the shelfs and a module where we want. It is a beautiful option to have but Raster said that it was stupid because these objects will be covered by the windows. My opinion is that this feauture is ve

[E-devel] larger gadgets/shelves?

2007-11-19 Thread Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
Hi all, I'm using a shelf at the right border with size set to HUGE (120px) and below all windows so it can be nice and use transparency, staying at the bottom of my desktop and working like KDE's superkaramba, GNOME desklets, Windows Vista gadgets and ... It works great, I'm using calendar, cloc